Example sentences of "[adv] more [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The old Soviet parliament was to be replaced by a two-chamber Supreme Soviet , and in due course a new Soviet Constitution would be presented for approval leading to presidential and perhaps more general multiparty elections the following year . |
| 32 | Perhaps more annoying is the number of student gigs that end with people coming up to me and sharing a few queer-bashing jokes . |
| 33 | The so-called Boltzmann machine is more elaborate and perhaps more versatile , but slow . |
| 34 | But perhaps more typical of European electronics companies were those with revenues of between one billion and a few billion dollars that experienced an ‘ identity crisis ’ in the 1980S . |
| 35 | Perhaps more typical is Scottish & Newcastle , which has a high proportion of female workers . |
| 36 | The whole process of incorporation of the Scrutiny discourse within English was perhaps more contradictory than Mulhern suggests . |
| 37 | But of course the water is not heaped up into a cube and so it is perhaps more appropriate , though less convenient , to think of this mass of salt water in its actual context — as a veneer-thin skin which lurks in those troughs and valleys which fall below the mean circumference of the earth 's planetary spheroid . |
| 38 | These are perhaps more appropriate when offering an American OTC stock . |
| 39 | The web of harmony added by the divided woodwind to the faster-moving octaves of the strings transforms the passage from a brusque late-Baroque flourish into something perhaps more appropriate to a Classical symphony . |
| 40 | It is perhaps more appropriate to regard the personal/subjective and objective forms of discourse merely as different forms of textual practice : putting " voice " into text is just a stylistic convention . |
| 41 | The head said ‘ Yes , he does have difficulty remembering — particularly sounding ’ , and felt that this could be because he was perhaps more fluent in Punjabi . |
| 42 | Often , he says , ecosystems are at their most diverse when they are shifting from one state to another , as the dominant types are temporarily swept aside , and many other , perhaps more specialist species , take over the vacant niches . |
| 43 | They well illustrate a quality which is perhaps more necessary in farce crime fiction than in any other branch of the art , the need to set up a cracking pace . |
| 44 | As the parent of a daughter who has had to struggle and cope with dyslexia , I have perhaps more personal knowledge of the difficulties that it causes than many hon. Members . |
| 45 | There have been dramatic declines of a few bird species as a result of using some chemicals , and perhaps more subtle and long-term changes as a result of the simplification of the plant community of farmland arising from cropping changes and the widespread use of increasingly sophisticated herbicides . |
| 46 | Do plants , then , also communicate by means of airborne pheromones or in some other , perhaps more subtle fashion , as well ? |
| 47 | This is clearly part of the story , but there is another , perhaps more subtle , way of understanding such mobility . |
| 48 | But the more profiles are concerned with qualities of character and extra-curricular activities , the more intrusive of privacy they seem ; and , perhaps more relevant to the present enquiry , the less they have to do with the actual school curriculum . |
| 49 | This makes them more varied to look at , and in general perhaps more picturesque , but it is not easy to make them intelligible to someone who has not seen them . |
| 50 | Coleridge and Sara began their married life more conventionally , and within a few days he was writing in enraptured terms to Tom Poole from their ‘ comfortable Cot ’ in Clevedon : ‘ the prospect around us is perhaps more various than any in the kingdom — Mine Eye gluttonizes. — The Sea — the distant Islands ! the opposite Coasts ! — I shall assuredly write Rhymes — let the nine Muses prevent it , if they can . ’ |
| 51 | What they looked for often — correctly I think — was a different type of sexuality , perhaps more libertine and less guilt-ridden ; but even that quest , if repeated by enough people , could ( and did ) become as regulated and uniform as learning itself . |
| 52 | Nevertheless as his reign drew to a close Louis was perhaps more hated and certainly more despised than any king of France for generations . |
| 53 | perhaps more egalitarian . |
| 54 | As we get older and perhaps more worldly , it is sometimes awkward to admit that we ever believed such nonsense , and even more difficult to admit that not everything we imbibed was bad or wrong . |
| 55 | Although an intensely private person , and in many ways an unusual one , Basil had a most affecting belief in the place of art in the lives of those culturally much simpler and perhaps more worldly than himself . |
| 56 | Because by showing that it wo n't work , it liberates people for some other and perhaps more comprehensive and satisfactory possibility . |
| 57 | Small numbers of French had been parachuted into Indochina under SEAC auspices before the Japanese coup but a much larger and perhaps more effective intervention by the French Corps Léger d'Intervention , a specialist unit of some five hundred men recruited and waiting in Algeria , was frustrated for various nominal reasons ; the effective one being that the US , until the very last moment , was unalterably opposed to French units participating in the war against Japan , and especially , if this involved Vietnam . |
| 58 | If these seem relatively modest benefits , it is perhaps more useful to consider whether a more radical and comprehensive anti-monopoly policy would have been better for society . |
| 59 | The screens can consist of either information , or , perhaps more useful still to the history teacher , of actual contemporary sources . |
| 60 | Perhaps more striking has been the disruptive impact on the NHS of many uncoordinated and poorly-managed projects . |