Example sentences of "[art] more [conj] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | They desire to keep perfectly still ; the more and the longer they move the more they suffer . |
| 2 | In practice — and even in theory — there is also a spectrum of the more and the less significant . |
| 3 | Variations can also be expected to exist between the more and the less accessible rural areas , but few published data exist that allow this to be illustrated . |
| 4 | a general enrichment of the concrete substance of civilized life , a general reduction of risk and insecurity , an equalization between the more and the less fortunate at all levels — between the healthy and the sick , the employed and the unemployed , the old and the active , the bachelor and the father of the large family . |
| 5 | Again Hughes has clearly described the influences , movements and inputs which have questioned monolith models and which have drawn a distinction between the more and the less valuable insights of the practitioner . |
| 6 | It might benefit him the more if the money were to be withheld until he is older . |
| 7 | If , for example , they are tested with full-strength or even half-strength milk , they show no preference for the more or the less sweetened examples . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , Beth , I do love you , ’ she said : the two of them laughing all the more when a little voice piped up from its place at the table , ‘ I do love you too ! ’ |
| 9 | England 's Nigel Redman gets beats the Eagles ' Chuck Tunnacliffe ( left ) and Norm Mottram ( black headband ) to the ball with a more than a little help from prop Jason Leonard as England beat the USA 37–9 in their World Cup Pool One clash . |
| 10 | I said well no I cos I said I expected a co I think she deserved a more than a commended . |
| 11 | Philistinism is rife , and it is high time for some loud restatement of the old conservationist maxim that ownership is no more than a temporary rental on the nation 's heritage . |
| 12 | But it is still no more than a performance . |
| 13 | A cordon is no more than a single stem which fruits all the way along . |
| 14 | The side kick delivered from the back foot is comparatively slow and does no more than a good front kick . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , a foot sweep does require a lot of power to prevent it from degenerating into no more than a shin attack . |
| 16 | Some broken bones have no more than a hairline crack in them , but this is enough to cause your withdrawal from competition , regardless of the stage you are at . |
| 17 | Otherwise you may aggravate something that , with a little rest and good management , could have been no more than a minor injury . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The worst case was in July 1989 when an alternator set fell off at around 100mph at Harrow on the main line into Euston and caused a major derailment , fortunately with no more than a few injuries . |
| 20 | The rhetoric may point to extreme scepticism or Pyrrhonism but its users , if pressed , are likely to retreat to positions which are no more than a modified version of traditional ones . |
| 21 | A natural response to this state of affairs would be to say that theory cut off from the writing of literature is no more than a sterile academicism . |
| 22 | Eliot seems to have ignored these suggestions because for him the physical and social landscape of London was no more than a screen on which to project a phantasmagoria that expressed his own personal disorders and desperations ( partly sexual , as one might expect , and as the drafts make clear ) ; whereas Pound seems to have supposed that the subject of the poem was London in all its historical and geographical actuality , much as the city of Dublin was from one point of view the subject of Joyce 's Ulysses . |
| 23 | It had not occurred to us that this ranging survey of the idioms of English and incidentally French verse had been no more than a ‘ prologue ’ — and to what , for heaven 's sake ? |
| 24 | It seems no more than a charming anecdote , but when Professor Davie cites Bunting 's tale in Under Briggflatts , his history of British poetry since 1960 , he calls the incident ‘ challenging ’ . |
| 25 | The manager thought his lunchtime call to Anfield was no more than a formality . |
| 26 | Offending policemen frequently receive no more than a dishonourable discharge , and may resume killing in plain clothes , Mr Santos said , while some adolescents — who under Brazilian law are not criminally responsible - are also employed to kill other children . |
| 27 | ‘ Labour 's supposed conversion to multilateralism is no more than a confidence trick to try to make Labour electable . |
| 28 | All of us that is except uncle Eugenio , who had never been to see a film , saying that it was a fraud , all illusion , and that when the lights went up and all the characters disappeared the screen was no more than a rag . |
| 29 | That was at most a couple of miles up the road and no more than a few pence on the bus . |
| 30 | They were sweeping over the ancient continent of Africa , the everlasting wastelands of the desert no more than a patch on a great patchwork quilt . |