Example sentences of "be [adv] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Or they could be altogether more spiritual and personal . |
| 2 | This ( Munn ) Report was thought by the Committee of the House of Commons to be altogether more sophisticated an analysis , with its recognition of the debatable nature of the fundamental principles underlying a specification of the school curriculum . |
| 3 | Robert Holland senior held moderately extensive estates in his county and played an active part in its government , but his son 's career was to be altogether more exceptional . |
| 4 | Problem ( b ) , the task of apportioning a given perceived increase in the real wage rate between a temporary increase and a permanent increase , may prove to be altogether more formidable . |
| 5 | Saturday 's new series of Tom Jones : The Right Time ( 10.20pm , ITV ) promises to be altogether more challenging . |
| 6 | The new organizations catering for this were to be economically more efficient and culturally more bland than the popular movements of the first half of the century . |
| 7 | But despite Rumens 's wit and some good supporting acting , this gets to be little more than one of those stories that might grace Woman Now 's problems page . |
| 8 | They would include : opportunities for students to see or experience equipment or processes which are not on offer within the institution ; the chance for a student to sample a possible future job or career ; the opportunity to learn something ( not much ) of the lives led in employment by their neighbours , their parents or their peer-group , so that they may grow up more understanding and more tolerant ( this rather pious hope may in fact be quite unjustified , they may have confirmed or developed disdain or envy for others ) ; a good student may catch the eye of an employer looking for a later recruit ; absence may lend enchantment to the view of the college and the students may return from work-experience reassured about their choice of education ; students may be motivated to work hard at college by the prospect of either securing a job like the one they have seen or tried , or by the determination to avoid a similar fate ; all these outcomes may be little more predictable than the consequences of going to the zoo for a visit . |
| 9 | My impression — and without a full inquiry such as might be carried out by the social service inspectorate it can be little more — is that the assessment of the father and his partner had scarcely advanced . |
| 10 | As by the time any new formula is developed and implemented the information will be nearly as out of date as that used in the RAWP review , any new analysis may be little more informative than the last with respect to the role of social variables . |
| 11 | By dawn the trench would probably be little more than eighteen inches deep , but it had to be occupied all day , while the enemy gunners resumed their work of levelling . |
| 12 | The trench warfare of the early 1980s was replaced by more subtle forms of guerrilla conflict , in which the guiding principles are no longer so straightforward , yet the consequences of change may be rather more significant , to the extent that the '80s as a whole might justifiably be seen as a period of structural change . |
| 13 | Having twin and matched secondary windings clearly makes a mains transformer very versatile , but it also means that you have to be rather more careful when wiring it up . |
| 14 | There is little to fear from them if they can be closely examined , though they can be rather more deceptive when framed and covered with glass . |
| 15 | Intuitively , one feels that older learners are at a disadvantage in relation to learning a language , but research shows the situation to be rather more complex . |
| 16 | Monnet himself seemed to be rather more cautious about going too fast too quickly , and seemed to hanker still for sectoral integration in the first instance , especially in the developing field of nuclear energy , as a strategy which stood a better chance of succeeding in the short term . |
| 17 | To be effective , children 's mathematical experience needs to be rather more wide ranging and demanding than presently seems to be the case . |
| 18 | But whatever circumlocutions are conferred upon him , Simon would appear to be rather more obtrusive than some translators might wish . |
| 19 | If it is the latter kind , then you can be rather more technical and detailed than you might be for the general readership . |
| 20 | Once the role of the advertising has been defined , it becomes reasonably straightforward to set objectives for the advertising , which will usually be rather more specific interpretations of the role statement , including where possible specific targets , measurable by specific research . |
| 21 | These androids do n't feel the cold , but we 'd be rather more comfortable off this wind-swept mountain-top , I 'm sure . ’ |
| 22 | It will be rather more difficult to create incentives to move people out of the prison system into hospitals and instead a fundamental policy change by those who are responsible for planning local mental health services will be required . |
| 23 | It promises to be rather more straightforward ’ — he grinned — ‘ than my own enquiries . ’ |
| 24 | But come , it 's time for you to be rather more specific . |
| 25 | The most significant enhancement is the inclusion of Wysiwyg add-in which does allow reports from the spreadsheet to be rather more stylish . |
| 26 | In view of the shortage of time , my speech will be rather more in note form than I intended , but I hope that the points that I make will be clear . |
| 27 | In fact , the statistical significance test controversy was the precursor of concerns that turned out to be rather more fundamental to variable analysis ; concerns that were not voiced by such as Becker and other Symbolic Interactionists who wanted no truck with a sociology derived from variable analysis ( and whose criticisms we shall review later in this chapter ) , but by advocates of variable analytic and survey approaches . |
| 28 | But we can be rather more rigorous about the form of ‘ moral housing careers ’ for different social groups . |
| 29 | My own studies of export oriented zones in China ( Sklair , forthcoming ) , Egypt ( 1988c ) , Mexico ( 1989 ) , and Ireland ( 1988b ) , suggest that backward and forward linkages tend to be very meagre , and these cases may be rather more typical of the Third World as a whole than the relatively highly developed enclave , Singapore . |
| 30 | The relations between a bishop and his diocese could be rather more complicated , being affected by a wide variety of factors . |