Example sentences of "that [is] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | OUR family lives in a cottage in Scarisbrick ( pronounced Scazebrick ) that is more than 100 years old . |
| 2 | Pure gold and silver are soft metals but , when alloyed together or with copper , a harder alloy is produced that is more resistant to wear and distortion . |
| 3 | The problem is not simply one of quantity ; that is more a symptom than a cause . |
| 4 | The issue of accuracy is being brought into sharper focus by the increased pressure on researchers to have their analysis done more efficiently — that is more cheaply — perhaps by contract analytical laboratories . |
| 5 | If this is true , then what else can I ever have that is more precious than the possession of his Holy Spirit within me ? |
| 6 | Once employers and educationalists take as given the need to look beyond themselves and their own internal interests , there will be the possibility of a braver and newer world , that is more humanitarian and more caring . |
| 7 | This gives a route to acetic acid , selling for about £310 a tonne , that is more economic than the one from say , ethanol , at around £470 a tonne . |
| 8 | Indeed , there is a whole range of ‘ reading ’ that is more basic than that already considered and that is crucially important in human lives . |
| 9 | However , the fact is that some people use this notion and that is more important than what it really is . |
| 10 | It was not even ‘ love of life ’ — that is more like it , but the phrase has come to mean many things that could ( happily ) not be predicated of her . |
| 11 | They fielded one foreigner too many — that is more serious . |
| 12 | Where can they go in Britain that is more exciting ? ’ |
| 13 | For example , in some tasks , the more direct way of speaking that is more common to boys will be advantageous ; in others , the more tentative approach more frequently found in girls will be more appropriate . |
| 14 | That is more or less what he has to say . |
| 15 | In the former , it is perhaps the inadequacy of Earendel that is more prominent than his partial success ; at the end of the poem his light is blotted out by the greater light of dawn . |
| 16 | This is something else that is more difficult with an owl than a falcon . |
| 17 | The paradox of today 's Lords is that it is this weird and undemocratic assortment of characters , largely there by freak of birth , that is more inclined to call for the will of the people to be tested . |
| 18 | That is more than one might find in Holland , for example , but is it actually too many ? |
| 19 | At Christmas and Hogmanay , well I 'd like to go away and get outside do you know where the country because that is more Scottish , you get , that 's the countryside . |
| 20 | That is more important for your planet than any other considerations . ’ |
| 21 | A minimum number of three cycles is needed to estimate variability , and women with low waist-hip ratios — that is more fertile women — would be more likely to be excluded from such an analysis , leading to an under–estimation of the relation between waist-hip ratio and fecundity . |
| 22 | Alternatively , we would be happy to talk to you on the telephone if that is more convenient . |
| 23 | In 1912 Eleanor Barton , a spokeswoman for the WCG ( albeit herself middle class ) , voiced the opinion that ‘ women suffer a great deal through their husbands ’ sensuality , and that is more evident amongst working people than other classes , simply because the conditions of life lend themselves to that sort of thing , and they have not been taught the proper uses of their bodies ' . |
| 24 | Mrs Thatcher has rightly chosen to focus upon improvement here in her third term , but she is meeting an opposition to change that is more wily than the one she was offered by the miners . |
| 25 | I think that is more a question of distribution within districts than overall district levels . |
| 26 | It 's found in brain and the equilibrium potential for chloride is around minus ninety milliVolts , that is more negative than the normal membrane potential which is which would be of the order of minus sixty minus seventy . |
| 27 | Now I believe that you test the liberal democracy , not by the ease with which majorities get their way but on the extent to which you accommodate the views of committed minorities and we 've lived so long with majority rule , masquerading as democracy , that we 've forgotten that that is more akin to dictatorship than anything else . |
| 28 | Erm , yes that is more or less the case . |
| 29 | ‘ And that is more important than anything else . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Primary ’ does not necessarily mean that the visit must be arranged first chronologically : the ‘ Secondary ’ period can happen first if that is more convenient . |