Example sentences of "[coord] what is more " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Zoology here , from what I have already seen , is likely to be of a most interesting description , totally different in its nature from that of Sydney , but probably approaching nearer in its character to the productions found beyond the Liverpool range , or what is more properly called the interior of New South Wales . ’ |
| 2 | Yet it looks as if that most precious of ladies may be about to be raped — and what is more , by the very group of her countrymen set up to defend her honour and purity . |
| 3 | And what is more , she decided , in order to go away I must have suitable new clothes . |
| 4 | And what is more believed ? |
| 5 | And what is more , the sheds are dark and dirty , the coldest places in town on cold days , the stuffiest on hot . |
| 6 | This would be a useful feature if it were not for the fact that a certain amount of vaginal discharge is perfectly normal and natural for a woman in her reproductive years ; and what is more , this natural discharge is subject to a fair amount of variation depending on the stage of the menstrual cycle . |
| 7 | And what is more ’ — her voice dropped now and she leant towards Agnes — ‘ I 'm afraid of your father , I mean , for him , what he will do to that … person if he meets him again , for he will certainly do him an injury . ’ |
| 8 | The effect of this when it is accepted is very far reaching because the more an idea is tested the more it is validated and criticism becomes not a threat but an opportunity to strengthen the idea ; and what is more important scientists cease to have the same proprietorial attitude towards in idea . |
| 9 | In the case of the biography the author is even less likely to be attracted to writing at second hand about a nobody , and what is more , he has a completely open field of all the somebodies that he chooses to tackle . |
| 10 | According to Michael Tucker , members facilities at the event ‘ are some of the best that can be found anywhere and what is more the hospitality units not only provide superb views of the Yorkshire countryside , but brings the action to you while you wine and dine . ’ |
| 11 | God is a person too ; and what is more , the person on whom personhood itself depends . |
| 12 | During the off-season , French life proceeds at its most natural , inviting pace , and what is more , travel generally is less expensive and the golf courses less crowded . |
| 13 | Procter & Gamble and Shell in particular , together with several other giant organisations like IBM and Unilever , have their own completely adequate recruiting and training resources , and what is more they follow a policy which actually discriminates against outsiders . |
| 14 | And what is more , I might never ever have to look at German again except on a menu in a restaurant on the Rhine where we might go , like other people do , for a real holiday instead of borrowing mildewed cottages and cardboard holiday-houses from people to whom we than have to be disproportionately grateful . |
| 15 | And what is more , I think most of them give in . |
| 16 | Under its headline ‘ Mercantile Tricycles Denounced ’ , the Graphic described how , in default of paying a 10 shillings fine plus costs , this cycling desperado was sentenced to seven days ' imprisonment — and what is more , poor Thomas Duff had been estimated by the police to have been rattling along at somewhere between 8 and 10 miles per hour . |
| 17 | Fine , in principal , but not all the members of the vast timber trade are convinced , and what is more , the question of who foots the bill , is a genuine one . |
| 18 | In this way , the mother provides her baby with more food over the period of its development than she would be able to pack into a single egg , and what is more , she can do this over a long period instead of being compelled to produce it all at one moment . |
| 19 | This definition is necessarily somewhat open-ended : the existence of social collectivities will be a matter of degree , and what is more , such collectivities may cut across one another — there will be no unique map of social collectivities such that each agent is a member of one and only one . |
| 20 | And what is more , I instruct the newspapers to pay the charity so that they know that it 's a point of principle . |
| 21 | This means that , if the conditions are all true in some state , then the operator called action can be applied to the state , and what is more , this operator may help the search . |
| 22 | ‘ And what is more , we 're wasting a lot of valuable time . |
| 23 | And what is more , I 'll give it or not as I please ; and I 'll be buggered if I 'll ask permission of some pushy little perisher before I do so . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm going to turn my fire on our opponents , the Labour Party , ’ said Amaranth a little smugly , ‘ and what is more , I have something up my sleeve . ’ |
| 25 | ( 64 ) … and what is more the ideas themselves , if we are not too overawed by the empressement with which they are presented , on examination are seen to be not so very original after all . |
| 26 | With the illicit amorous adventures of wives in the situation of the eternal triangle ( husband , wife , lover ) being the most common single dramatic type in the fabliaux , the most frequent type as the object of ridicule is the deceived husband , often not merely cuckolded but on occasion beaten or otherwise degraded or abused as well ; and what is more after all this sometimes so utterly deceived that he remains happy in the delusion that his wife has proved herself faithful to him . |
| 27 | And what is more , the clichés used by Mome Elwis are at least better suited to the cleric than anything the clerk can come out with : ( " I can do no other deed but say my paternoster and my creed to Christ for my misdeeds , and my Ave Maria — I am sorry for my sins — and my de profundis for all who remain in sin , for I am good for nothing else — Christ knows that , the king of heaven . " ) |
| 28 | Having spoken , the monk undergoes a physical reaction to the utterance of his salacious thoughts of the wife being exercised , sexually , in bed : This response to his own thought and speech on the monk 's part creates another novelty within this fabliau : a character who assumes a role parallel to that of a real reader outside the text ; a listener to and responder to a text and its implications , and what is more a reader who indulges in an interpretation of the text of his thoughts as pornographic , i.e. capable of exciting vicarious , erotic sensation . |
| 29 | We have a President who is charming , gracious and what is more important to me , a fellow sailor . |
| 30 | But what is more important ? |