Example sentences of "[adv] more [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , perhaps because the eye and elbow joint develop in the same kind of way as our own eyes and elbows develop , a building process for which we , inside our mothers , claim no credit , we are illogically more impressed by the house . |
| 2 | Erm having said that though I think that erm perhaps the next few great achievements were perhaps more revolutionary , really , erm because they were s now , he 's now talking about overthrowing erm the feudal rule of local tyrants erm overthrowing the armed forces of the landlords , overthrowing the political power of the county magistrate and ov this one 's possibly the most important anti-revolution restorationist one I think probably , the overthrowing of clan authority of the ancestral temples and the clan elders . |
| 3 | The argument was heard that even if , in the 1930s , there were other and perhaps more dangerous aggressors in the world , the latest imperialists had been inspired and encouraged by the deplorable yet seductive empire-building example set by the British . |
| 4 | The rental of such an office could not have been great , but it was little things which often had a quite disproportionate impact upon burgh councillors , for such a move would give tangible proof that the party which could arrange it had the ear of government and could thus effect other , and perhaps more far-reaching , changes . |
| 5 | Such brief ‘ thumb-nail ’ sketches do give some indication of the essence of sociology , but ultimately it is both necessary and perhaps more fruitful to emphasise that the most important and distinctive feature of sociology is not so much what is studied but how it is studied , i.e. it is important to indicate what is the particular perspective of sociology , its distinct way of looking at the individual and society . |
| 6 | In this form she was perhaps more deadly than ever ; yet for that very reason she refrained from causing harm , suppressing her reflexes . |
| 7 | One sort of explanation sees such practices as permanent employment and seniority wage systems as being related to Japan 's unique cultural traditions and the carry-over to modern industry of patterns of social relationships and obligations which characterised feudal Japan.7 Other , perhaps more convincing , approaches ( as these practices are not characteristic of smaller-sized firms ) see them as an employer response to the exigencies of the labour market and as a control device to elicit and reward loyal workforce behaviour ( Jacoby , 1979 ) , since lifetime employment is not a practice of very long standing in Japan . |
| 8 | I hope that another place will have a perhaps more inspired attitude to these matters . |
| 9 | If you wish , we can let the matter drop and others , perhaps more fortunate , can dig amongst the scandals , the lies and the deceit and possible search out the truth . ’ |
| 10 | Added to this , MPs and ministers have in a special degree the conviction that central government knows best and that any devolution from London must mean giving powers to authorities that are poorer , weaker , slower , perhaps corrupt , perhaps more reactionary ( for Labour members ) or perhaps more reckless with public funds ( for Conservative members ) . |
| 11 | The Commission thinks this would would present businessmen with new paperwork perhaps more burdensome than border checks themselves . |
| 12 | Black tea is perhaps more familiar to most people ; the withered leaves are left to fully oxidise ( ferment naturally ) to the familiar dark brown colour before they are dried . |
| 13 | Waterston 's history is perhaps more chequered than that of the average English manor house . |
| 14 | Perhaps more curious than beautiful was the Meikleour Louis XV brass-inlaid coffre de mariage , decorated with corne verte ( green stained horn ) , made to hold a bride 's jewels . |
| 15 | So it is no longer such a hypothetical question to ask , if the nation state were to be abolished ( at least in the sense that it was no longer governed by a sovereign government directly accountable for its actions to the people ) , would a new form of democracy , perhaps more potent than that offered by the nation state , rise from the ashes ? |
| 16 | This wider outreach makes the opening words , ‘ The Word of God ’ , perhaps more arresting than the more technical title ‘ On Divine Revelation ’ . |
| 17 | She became aware at an early stage that there was an entirely different way of life available not far outside Baldersdale , perhaps more appealing to her , but it could have been on another planet . |
| 18 | General practices would evolve into American-style health maintenance organisations — a prospect perhaps more appealing to planners than to patients or general practitioners . |
| 19 | Perhaps more worrying for the Government is the attitude of the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , who was reported by a most reliable gossip columnist called Peterborough in that impeccably Conservative newspaper The Daily Telegraph as saying that it would have been better if there had been no deal at all . |
| 20 | Though less in contact with students , the more senior and perhaps more influential members of the clinical teaching staff also offer a wide range of role models , which students may choose to emulate or reject . |
| 21 | We found that regardless of the subject labels adopted , the curriculum in practice consisted of a further and perhaps more influential ‘ core ’ of ten generic activities ( writing , using apparatus , reading , listening , drawing or painting , collaboration , movement , talking to the teacher , construction , talking to the class — see Table 3.1 ) . |
| 22 | For many centuries people assumed that animals had a similar , if perhaps more limited , view of the world . |
| 23 | This is proving useful to them as well as to mothers with push-chairs , who are perhaps more frequent users . |
| 24 | If we wish to discuss changes in punishment it is perhaps more helpful to look at the percentage of those found guilty receiving different types of sentence . |
| 25 | Lies is perhaps more accurate . |
| 26 | I hope , too , that other , perhaps more suitable , venues can be found . |
| 27 | One implication of these comments is that it is perhaps more reasonable to explain class differences in terms of sex , than sex differences in terms of class . |
| 28 | The Liberal Democrats remain a strong contender in left-of-centre politics , perhaps more certain of their identity than the Labour Party — albeit with some shaken confidence . |
| 29 | Quite for me it depends on i i in a sense I think it 's perhaps more subliminal . |
| 30 | Thus we should only praise conduct which needs to be stimulated in this way , even though other ( perhaps more selfish ) conduct which will be done anyway is itself good or better . |