Example sentences of "more [adj] [adv] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pleonasm can be cured by making the dependent item more specific so that it makes a net semantic contribution to the phrase : my patriarchal uncle ( notice that adding specificity to the head has no effect : ? my male maternal uncle ) . |
| 2 | However , the Marxist position is no more verifiable even if it constitutes a more rounded explanation . |
| 3 | Matters get more complicated still when it becomes evident that a group of students may well be inventing them both as an assignment for a creative writing course , until the students admit that they too are ‘ a pack of lies dreamt up by the unreliable narrator in love with the zeroist author in love with himself but absent in the nature of things , an etherised unauthorised other ’ ( 155/733 ) . |
| 4 | The falsificationist must now try to make his hypothesis more precise so that it becomes more readily falsifiable . |
| 5 | ‘ The police service is arguably more efficient now than it has ever been . |
| 6 | The 1970s were not characterized by an emphasis on the bibliographical aspects of librarianship , and the possibility of wide-scale application of McClellan 's ideas seem more remote now than it did 20 years ago . |
| 7 | He 'd had a couple of sessions with his union rep and had been told not to worry , it was just a way of filling some quota ; if anything , his job was probably more secure now than it had been before . |
| 8 | Hence , a political economy of the urban is scarcely more plausible now than it has ever been in the past . |