Example sentences of "[verb] more [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was intended to represent the concept of a tram in 2937 , but its unfortunate shape resembled more closely a cottage-loaf , by which it became known to the crews . |
| 2 | The pavement meetings of Hitler 's English disciples resembled more accurately a noisy Pimlico pub turning out at closing time . |
| 3 | With 20 : 20 vision , hindsight is very easy , but if only some of the things that are now happening at Asfordby had been accepted more readily a few years ago , we might well have been having a very different debate today . |
| 4 | Dr Carrington was trained as a physician and a psychiatrist ; however , particularly as he became more ill , his professional mantle dropped away from him , as is often the case , and he became more simply a sick human . |
| 5 | Later , once a variety of diplomatic initiatives had been tried and discarded , it became more literally a ‘ War Cabinet ’ . |
| 6 | In medieval Christianity they became more specifically a symbol of purity , not just because of their gentle lustre , but still more because they were grown secretly and , it was believed , with personal suffering by the oyster . ) |
| 7 | The classical phase of station-building was overtaken in Britain by the Italian villa style , which became so popular , particularly for country stations , by 1844 that the Illustrated London News could say ‘ the style has been called Italian ; it might be designated more properly an English railway style ’ . |
| 8 | The distinctions at this high level are relatively unilluminating : we can better see how feeding ecology and feeding behaviour interact if we examine more closely a smaller group of species . |
| 9 | Another support worker was introduced more successfully a week later ( but see below ) ; |
| 10 | And then of course people had picnics on the Sundays of the summer and er so on it grew more quite a lot from the hiring . |
| 11 | We are applying to list LASMO 's shares on the New York Stock Exchange in American Depositary Receipt [ ADR ] form , to facilitate dealing by US shareholders and to enable LASMO to access more readily a variety of capital market opportunities available to US listed companies . |
| 12 | Innovations in teaching methods do not usually come in the form of simple additions to a teacher 's repertoire , generalizable to all subject matters , but are usually designed to achieve more effectively an understanding of some particular X. Usually , for a variety of reasons , the descriptions of ‘ how to proceed ’ are not at a level of precision which makes the teacher a programmed automaton ; it follows that any teacher persuaded to adopt the innovation must be willing and able to explore modifications to his repertoire in order to try and achieve the hoped-for improvement in his pupils ' understanding of X at which the innovation is aimed . |