Example sentences of "[noun] can be [adv] more [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Having your hair cut in a professional salon can be even more traumatic than going to the dentist .
2 The pleasure can be even more enhanced if you are prepared to forego some of the geometry accuracy of urban structures and allow your watercolour paper to pay a substantial role in the formation of your image .
3 The pleasure can be even more enhanced if you are prepared to forego some of the geometry accuracy of urban structures and allow your watercolour paper to pay a substantial role in the formation of your image .
4 Avoiding the crossing of a busy road , climbing a steep hill , or passing the shops can be much more important to parents than having to walk an extra few hundred yards .
5 In the short term , he explains , ‘ Confrontation can be even more painful , but it 's the only way , in the end , to treat the underlying reason for over-spending .
6 Consequently , disease outbreaks can be much more prevalent .
7 Slanging matches rarely achieve anything positive , and other anger responses can be even more destructive .
8 Although there has been a growing amount of evidence that rewarding good behaviour can be far more effective in maintaining pupil discipline than punishing bad behaviour , and despite official encouragement for rewarding , there has been found to be ‘ a continuing emphasis ’ on punishments .
9 Dried peas , beans or shells stored in durable containers can be much more satisfying than empty packets which , unless regularly replaced , tend to fall apart so easily .
10 A novelist can be even more helpful by saying that the phrase in question was spoken waggishly , or grimly , or that it was snapped out as the character turned angrily on his heel .
11 Cities and regions can be even more confining .
12 The clarification of water by means of sedimentation becomes more complex with the use of dosing methods and upward-flow tanks , but , with analytical checks on the treatment the results can be much more consistent than with the simpler settlement in mill lodges , and there need be no interruption in supply caused by variations in the raw water or the need for cleaning out tanks .
13 If she is still at work , the situation can be even more fraught as , apart from the extra housework , she may find her loyalties uncomfortably divided .
14 The use of rests can be particularly telling , and a moment of silence can be even more poignant than sound , especially as a preparation for an effective utterance .
15 Another moth caterpillar in South America can be even more alarming .
16 I show that the occurrence of false peaks can be far more frequent than was previously thought .
17 When it comes to products that are in more diffuse circulation the retroscendent experience can be considerably more disorientating .
18 In industry and science , process control and equipment monitoring can be far more reliable and effective using a micro .
19 But biologists can be much more specific than that about what would constitute being " good for something " .
20 I described colour mutations as deformities , and I think it is obvious that fish suffering from such mutations can be even more disadvantaged than those with crooked spines or distorted finnage .
21 It is undeniable that large-scale production can be technically more efficient , and so following an analysis detailed by Williamson ( 1968 ) we need to consider how the previous result is affected if , after monopolisation , production takes place with lower costs .
22 The display can be even more eye-catching if use is made of the wide choice of containers now available .
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