Example sentences of "a [adv] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new generation of machines built around ever-more powerful chips are ready for a vastly more powerful operating system . |
| 2 | Under such circumstances they will have a chance against even a vastly more powerful foe . |
| 3 | The truth is perhaps that Lévi-Strauss 's conception of structure has no greater intrinsic value than Radcliffe-Brown 's — although it is made to carry a vastly more elaborate analytical superstructure . |
| 4 | The capital was distinguished from provincial cities and towns on three counts : it was at least five times the size of any other , almost ten times as rich , and possessed a vastly more complex social and occupational structure . |
| 5 | This is produced by an enzyme system which gives off light when exposed to oxygen and is a vastly more efficient process than that used by us to create artificial light . |
| 6 | But once that is done , you have a vastly more powerful and flexible system at your disposal . |
| 7 | Most of the other simulations of accidental stalling involve almost unrealistic handling of the aircraft , and are therefore not very convincing , although they may result in a rather more violent wing-drop . |
| 8 | Certain samples of walnut can be similarly used giving a rather more dramatic and somewhat stormy appearance to a design . |
| 9 | The residents of the Soviet town of Voronezh experienced a rather more exotic kind of refugee . |
| 10 | But for its full significance , and a rather more liberating version of it , we might recall Wilde 's wonderful anecdote about Narcissus and the river as related by Gide : |
| 11 | The Youth Club of the Paris Commune as it was officially known , or the ‘ Paree ’ as its more irreverent members called it , was a gimcrack affair , cracked concrete and cheap plastic panels , tucked beside the inevitable block of flats , and a health centre , but it was well equipped : table tennis , television , a library , a concert room , a rather more substantial annexe for weight lifting , a hall which doubled up for meetings of the Free German Youth and dancing , and a comfortable lounge where one could buy coffee and soft drinks . |
| 12 | ‘ This would be great for travelling — and warm enough for those brutal Russian winters , ’ said Saska , as our star slipped into something decidedly comfortable , and performed a rather more professional twirl than most make-over ‘ guinea pigs ’ can manage . |
| 13 | It remains to be seen whether either can bounce back , and whether Saatchi and Saatchi will soon be fighting off a rather more vigorous takeover bid than Mrs Thatcher faced this week . |
| 14 | Reid developed a rather more interesting objection , one made earlier by Berkeley , which puts the case of a general who is conscious of things he did as an officer , but no longer conscious , as he was when an officer , of what he did as a boy . |
| 15 | Moreover if we wish to interpret ‘ consolations ’ in a rather more modern way we can not but admire the efficiency with which she took control of her own life . |
| 16 | One can sit leafing through glossy English magazines , reading in House and Garden about somebody 's ‘ elegantly understated ’ home in Kensington while passing within yards of a rather more understated Egyptian peasant 's home of mud-brick . |
| 17 | Brooke 's Cabinet colleague R. A. Butler , on the other hand , took a rather more robust view — confiding to the BBC 's Director General , Sir Hugh Greene , that he had not enjoyed anything on television so much for years . |
| 18 | Beginning then with our closer relatives , we are faced with three rather similar forms , the orang-utan , the gorilla , and the chimpanzee , and a rather more distant set of relatives , the gibbon , and the siamang . |
| 19 | The orang-utan thus probably reached its definitive form by evolution from a rather more terrestrial animal but at a later date than that suggested by Kortlandt . |
| 20 | On the specific idea of metaphysics , W.H. Walsh 's book of that title provides a rather more hopeful view of the subject than does Ayer . |
| 21 | The male pubic louse has a rather more pointed tail than the female and is smaller and more active . |
| 22 | Some of the wildlife of the water-mill may owe its existence to a rather more conscious decision on the part of some long-dead miller . |
| 23 | At this village near Barton-upon-Humber , where the new Humber Bridge commences its crossing of the estuary , a rather more modest suspension bridge survives from 1844 . |
| 24 | And , therefore , the argument is of people whose backs are pinned to the wall before they 're questioned as it were , and that does n't make for a sober and calm discussion , especially as there is some doubt , I suspect , in the mind of ministers , but certainly in the mind of many people in the Conservative Party , about whether these great absolutes , this wall against which ministers and departments are nailed , really need exist in quite the form it 's being constructed or whether the whole issue could n't be handled in a rather more sensitive and relaxed way . |
| 25 | When seen in conjunction with the Cloister Court , of which it forms the northern side and which offers some fine Tudor brickwork , it presents a showpiece of a rather more homely kind than do the grand stone courts of some other colleges . |
| 26 | The ratios of proportions in the fourth column of figure 8.6 , calculated by dividing the first column of proportions by the second , tell a rather more convincing story . |
| 27 | Clearly , the quantization noise which is introduced to the data requires a rather more sophisticated error model . |
| 28 | The disappearance of the metropolitan counties , and the adoption by many urban Labour councils of a rather more pragmatic approach towards central government , eased some of the particular difficulties facing the Partnerships . |
| 29 | Suppose , though , that we wanted a sample of a rather more difficult group . |
| 30 | Whilst the potential here looks considerable , there is just a slight concern that initial reaction has been that medical audit requires a rather more in-depth review of each case than is provided by routine data collection approach . |