Example sentences of "more [adj] [conj] it [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is an appalling situation , but it is made more appalling because it mainly affects students from the poorest backgrounds , those whose parents are on low incomes and who get no financial help from their parents because they can not afford to give it . |
| 2 | Rory thought now that his brother must have exaggerated the story , made it more horrific than it really had been , and he certainly did n't believe that Lachy had run away to sea just so that he could wear an eye-patch and pretend he was a pirate . |
| 3 | As this ratio fell , the convertibility of dollars into gold became more and more fragile until it finally snapped ( table 10.7 ) . |
| 4 | The hot day , my uncomfortable collar made tighter by a tie on this deserted Sunday , made this make-believe rendezvous more unreal than it already had become . |
| 5 | Dietary fibre means that a food requires more chewing but it also requires more swallowing . |
| 6 | From the first days of August , the president has had trouble even articulating the war aims , as not a few American commentators pointed out before ‘ supporting our boys ’ , prayer breakfasts , and a patriotism that may be more anxious than it yet seems , silenced them . |
| 7 | That made the system look more Erastian than it ever looked before . |