Example sentences of "more so [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even some admirers were puzzled by the aggressively public way he has pursued it , the more so since he has been careful to acknowledge that there may not be enough rebels to defeat the Government 's legislation with — ‘ a sad day for me ’ — Labour 's help . |
| 2 | Rather than establish a separate organization to administer the fund , it would probably be better to leave aid of that nature to the World Bank and bilateral and regional agreements , the more so since an issue like controlling carbon dioxide emissions may come to depend not so much on targets and dates agreed under a protocol to the climate convention as on the speed with which programmes to introduce cleaner forms of energy ( possibly including internationally supervised nuclear energy ) can be funded and implemented . |
| 3 | This was all the more so since the most fervent supporters of the League were precisely those traditional Liberal voters whose vacillations between the parties tended to determine the outcome of inter-war elections . |
| 4 | We 've … we 've always been close , but more so since Harry went . |
| 5 | Easy to say that the Movement was never more than a journalistic invention — the more so since its principals were ( almost certainly ) never together in one room . |
| 6 | Today , such a practice would not be considered particularly unusual ; in the context of 1945 it was novel , more so since the Observer had been purchased in 191 1 to keep it as a ‘ Tory organ ’ . |
| 7 | Harfleur had taught him a lesson : he must be properly prepared for siege warfare , all the more so since he now planned a conquest which could only be achieved through sieges and the show of effective military might . |
| 8 | As a result she was present at the important council meetings at the end of the year and it would be surprising if her voice was not heard in the discussions about the future of Aquitaine — all the more so since she could be expected to have some influence over her children , and particularly over Richard . |
| 9 | The management of innovation efforts , particularly in terminating activities that do not make business sense , can be delicate as well as time-consuming — the more so since administrative fiat is not an acceptable solution . |
| 10 | The more so since I possess your well-known restraint only in small measure . ’ |
| 11 | It was true that the Simonova 's earthing crew had been slow to react — the more so since they must have been required to perform a similar task on both of the platforms which had been docked and inspected previously . |
| 12 | Were this to be the case then the party would almost certainly adopt the essentials of the Establishment perspective — the more so since this perspective is keenly attentive to many of the contemporary concerns of the New Right . |
| 13 | Moreover , reform is ruled out because either the new second chamber would be less democratic than the Commons in which case it should not be able to delay legislation , or if it was just as democratic then there is no point in having two chambers , the more so since there is the potential problem of constitutional deadlock between them . |
| 14 | He had lavished all his love on her , more so since her mother had died almost eighteen years ago , and , similarly , he was the only one who ever saw her vulnerable side . |
| 15 | Your optimism is admirable , Mr Barnett , the more so since pessimism is , I suspect , your natural mood . |
| 16 | Indirect taxation was usually regressive in effect , the more so since the households of the rich were commonly self-suppliers of some excisable goods , such as beer . |
| 17 | On the whole , however , CD-ROMs are now as physically integrated with computers as any other peripheral ; indeed , more so since new generation microcomputers are increasingly being designed with built-in CD players alongside the conventional magnetic floppy and hard disc drives . |
| 18 | James had said that John Stewart the pedlar had seemed frantic that night — more so than the emergency warranted ? |
| 19 | He was as Romantic as any man of his time , and more so than most ; one ideally suited to Leonard 's own deeply Romantic ( and romantic ) strains — imagists both , rather than surrealists . |
| 20 | For Pound all dates are important but none more so than the date on the calendar above the critic 's desk . |
| 21 | Othello is larger-than-life and never more so than when determined to die , as White demonstrates in a nobly paced resumption of dignity in the difficult final scene . |
| 22 | Wright looked acclimatised to the First Division , more so than his partner Bright , who has yet to score this season . |
| 23 | THE Government has a clever knack of stealing other people 's clothes , never more so than in its espousal of ‘ active citizenship ’ as a desirable virtue . |
| 24 | Matchmaking is a precise art and never more so than when practised by Terry Lawless and Mickey Duff whose most notable achievement so far was to manoeuvre Frank Bruno into a hugely profitable contest against Tyson for the world heavyweight championship . |
| 25 | If Marcos was cynical , he was no more so than the American foreign policy which kept him in power and in clover for 20 years . |
| 26 | As such it was duly added to the membership roll of the contraption known as the United Nations , which asserts that all nations are equal ( albeit some more so than others ) , with one vote each , just as if they were individual human beings in a right-little tight-little democratic State . |
| 27 | But when the death coach came galloping out of the wild black sky to take Darby O'Gill to hell , it fairly put the fear of God in me ; more so than any clergyman before or since , however vivid their threats of eternal damnation . |
| 28 | Camp knows and takes pleasure in the tact that desire is culturally relative , and never more so than when , in cathecting contemporary style , it mistakes itself , and the style , for the natural . |
| 29 | In so many respects utterly ditferent from Wilde , Genet nevertheless also subverts the depth model of identity via the perverse dynamic , and perhaps more so than any other writer since Wilde . |
| 30 | And you have to be updated periodically , more so than in the past . |