Example sentences of "[conj] more [adj] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It becomes an argument about propriety : Smith says ‘ May it not be that in woman the physical pain neutralizes the sexual emotions which would otherwise … tend very much to alter our estimation of the modesty and retiredness proper to the sex , and which are never more prominent or more admirable than on these occasions ? ’ |
| 2 | Many necessities of life were hard to find or more expensive than before the war ; even motor fuels , derived from the one substance the country possessed in abundance , rose in price as the war pursued its course . |
| 3 | It is still unclear whether this is due to some intrinsic characteristic of people who became nuclear workers , or more likely because of the reduced opportunities or smoking allowed by work restrictions . |
| 4 | As the eighteenth century drew to a close , however , the situation was undoubtedly clearer and more regulated than in earlier generations . |
| 5 | They perhaps entered by the route of Kamchatka and Alaska , where the climate , even now so much milder and more equitable than on the north-east coast of America , might have been warm enough in late Pliocene times to have allowed the migration of these animals . |
| 6 | Not only was the advent of computing perhaps rather longer and more protracted than in some other disciplines , but invariably it is the case that the very nature of computer application in history is rather different , and it is this difference that lies at the root of the oncoming problem . |
| 7 | The course will usually be less technical and more flowing than for pure showjumping and different penalties are incurred : |
| 8 | Points to make in the context of this table are , again , the very large turnover involved and the fact that profit margins are healthier and more stable than in the tour operator case . |
| 9 | The teeth are longer and more slender than in any other crocodilian . |
| 10 | I was delighted with the attribution of a motive more understandable and more worthy than in biblical and Miltonic tradition and was lost in admiration of the boldness that could characterize the Supreme Being . |
| 11 | As the population of Wales is smaller and more dispersed than in England , the creation of community councils as successors to former boroughs and urban district councils was more widespread than the creation of successor parishes in England . |
| 12 | But this is a very different proposition — just about the most painful music Prokofiev ever composed and more symphonic than at least five of his symphonies . |
| 13 | The published accounts of PLCs are becoming more and more complicated because of the increased number and complexity of footnotes ; yet those footnotes reflect the increased awareness of the need to provide more relevant information . |
| 14 | Cut through the Arch Duke 's sleevenotes and poems ( a bit hippy ) to discover that he is funnier and more inventive than at any time in the intervening years . |
| 15 | It was just that in camp the link between sex and behaviour was often cruder and more obvious than in ordinary life . |
| 16 | Of particular interest is the increase in glutamate in the epileptogenic hippocampus before the seizure , and that the increase in this hippocampus is greater and more sustained than for the other . |
| 17 | Nearly all of them lay in the Ruhr and Silesia ; those in the latter area were to become more and more important because of the ease with which they could be worked and the quality of Lower Silesian coking coal . |
| 18 | Someone younger and more handsome and with a little more stature in the world . |
| 19 | The contradictions of liberalism — particularly those involved in the conflict between local liberties and a uniform liberal constitution — were nowhere more disastrous and more evident than in America . |
| 20 | There are obvious dangers of distortion , omission or misrepresentation , not necessarily for sinister reasons but more likely because of subconscious or professional bias . |