Example sentences of "[art] more [adj] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it was Silvia , not Ronni , who was the first to arrive and the more reluctant to leave at the end of each lesson . |
| 2 | Without this kind of activity , the difficult balance to be struck between essentially paternalistic decision taking and responsiveness would be all the more likely to swing towards the former . |
| 3 | Knowing her husband , if he could be led to believe that the royal castle of Berwick might be alienated from the crown and actually given to him for his services , he would be the more apt to accede to the arrangement , being a man of acquisitive mind . |
| 4 | This makes it all the more important to arrive at the interview well prepared . |
| 5 | The direct debit is the more flexible to use of the two because the amount can be adjusted for VAT or other changes . |
| 6 | It is no more possible to pass between the dates which compose the different domains than it is to do so between natural and irrational numbers . |
| 7 | The Fifties graduate mothers were no more inclined to argue with the infallibility of Freud than monsignori argued with the infallibility of the Pope . |
| 8 | But someone committed to a thorough-going naturalism is no more prepared to allow to the mind mysterious properties than he is prepared to allow them to matter : for the thorough-going naturalist , after all , mind is no more than a manifestation of matter . |
| 9 | But it is also plain that despite sterling 's depreciation to a rate at which it might be reasonably competitive within the Exchange Rate Mechanism , Mrs Thatcher 's team are no more ready to sign on the dotted line than they were in Madrid this summer . |