Example sentences of "more [adj] [subord] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This reticence is all the more striking when contrasted with the plethora of Second World War movies made both during the war and for many years afterwards . |
| 2 | The variations in prosperity in the North Side become more acute when observed on the smaller scale of the census tract . |
| 3 | One problem we have discussed as affecting the writer of the blueprint detective story is likely to be even more acute when embarking on an inverted story : the difficulty of making a static situation into an ongoing narrative . |
| 4 | It 's probably no more pleasant than living at the centre of some large , dirty , crime-ridden city . |
| 5 | It is a family history that becomes much more interesting when set against the wider background of the local history of an important industry . |
| 6 | Coal-and gas-powered stations are more economical when used for a shorter period . |
| 7 | Well I do n't like office , I love hotels and I think having meetings in a hotel 's more civilized than sitting in an office . |
| 8 | Moreover , the principle of linguistic self-consciousness or reflexivity seems to be made even more explicit when transposed to the narrative model . |
| 9 | This was very much more simple than dealing with the naval officer . |
| 10 | Mr Berge asked what could be more appropriate than to open with a French composer ? |
| 11 | Now she took care to change the subject and what could be more natural than to talk to the vet and his sister about Faustina and to speculate on what she might be doing at this moment . |
| 12 | So nothing could be more natural than going for a walk and holding hands with mum . |
| 13 | Providing for exceptional and individual needs may be more costly than providing for the average needs of fairly homogeneous groups of pupils . |
| 14 | The stags ' antlers are cast each year and are best left where found as they are nibbled and eaten to recycle the chemicals and nutrients needed for growing the next set , which is probably more useful than lying in the loft at home or being turned into a table lamp . |
| 15 | It 's also far more effective than planting in a layer of soil on the bottom of the pond . |
| 16 | The 2nd cellos here play in unison with the double basses for the first six bars , and after that in the octave above , the double basses being more effective if kept in the lower octave . |
| 17 | Patching is more effective if done in the pre-school years . |
| 18 | Even though essential oils are sometimes given orally ( especially in the case of garlic ) they can often be even more effective when applied to the skin . |
| 19 | These are much more effective when coupled with a thorough removal of acid organic detritus from the substrate . |
| 20 | If anything , the metabolism of the obese becomes more sluggish when exposed to the cold . |
| 21 | He used to say that nothing could be more ludicrous than going to a football match and then reading somebody else 's account of what you had already seen . |
| 22 | A year later , living above the shop — a 150-year-old converted granite cottage — he finds running his own business a lot more stimulating than working in a bank , and village life much more fun . |
| 23 | The threat of deflation as the only alternative to incomes policy is also more powerful when supported by a taste of the deflationary medicine . |
| 24 | However , the object-oriented paradigm offers increasing benefits when followed through from analysis and design to a language — that in fact the whole process becomes much more meaningful when surrounded by a software engineering environment . |
| 25 | I do n't think I ever saw J[ack] work more than half an hour without the cry of ‘ Barboys ! ’ — ‘ Coming , dear ! ’ , down would go the pen , and he would be away perhaps five minutes , perhaps half an hour ; possibly to do nothing more important than stand by the kitchen range as scullery maid . |
| 26 | Fighting for a place in the Leeds United line-up must be better and more important than fighting for a place in Norway 's World Cup squad . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's now a question of honour and that 's more important than winning on the field . |
| 28 | For those with a young family the inevitable taxi duties and watching our children take part in their school and club activities become more important than lying on the settee recovering from the morning session . |
| 29 | Giaffer and colleagues have recently used a slightly modified buccal cell adhesion assay to show that E coli from ulcerative colitis and Crohn 's disease patients were significantly more adhesive than isolates from a control group , but thiat this property was independent of disease activity , anatomical site and treatment . |
| 30 | Nothing is more fundamental than to work on a precisely accurate plan from the outset . |