Example sentences of "more [adj] [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a physical description , we expect the passage to contain a large number of physical , concrete nouns ( stakes , bamboo , fences , fishermen , ruins , etc ) but what is more striking is that these concrete nouns are matched by nouns which are more abstract in one way or another . |
| 2 | What is rather more strange is that Jenkins should portray the postponement of the positivist revolution as being an anti-radical step . |
| 3 | What is even more odd is that like the AV the STV is allowed to retain its original unitary value however often it is transferred and whatever its preferential status . |
| 4 | ‘ What I think is more possible is that I 'm right . ’ |
| 5 | What seems more doubtful is that Charles 's future share in the realm was overtly discussed in June 823 . |
| 6 | An added reason why the bond market is about to become more lively is that banks will soon be allowed to set up securities subsidiaries and underwrite corporate issues . |
| 7 | Far more interesting is whether the hon. Gentleman and his Back-Bench colleagues support Labour 's new nuclear defence policy — so far as anyone can understand it . |
| 8 | Maybe more interesting is whether a smaller unit , the herred , dates from the Viking period . |
| 9 | What might be more interesting is if re Christopher reads you his reading book from the library cos it 's really good fun . |
| 10 | Much more equivocal is whether the theory has any predictive content . |
| 11 | What is even more amazing is that Jesus does not meet the centurion either . |
| 12 | What 's even more amazing is that the Heartbreakers ' music is both memorable and professional , something which is seemingly least expected from a New Wave band . |
| 13 | Some of the more versatile are as follows . |
| 14 | What makes Gatsby 's action even more splendid is that he knows by this time that Daisy is not going to leave her husband for him . |
| 15 | What might be more dangerous is that forty years of so-called socialism have made people accustomed to a kind of egalitarianism , so that they will not readily tolerate great differences in income or lifestyle . |
| 16 | Even more likely is that our first-remembered food was mother 's milk . |
| 17 | What seems more likely is that Basquiat could be the beneficiary of a process operating in the market ( and among some critics ) , where artists who appear able to retain their market value in the next decade are promoted and shown , whereas others considered beyond rehabilitation are ignored . |
| 18 | The reason why the latter seem more likely is that it is on these major industries that much of the future competition among states for wealth-creating resources will be focused . |
| 19 | More likely is that she wrote down ( accurately ) the beginning , remembered the sound of the end , and linked them together in what seemed to her a possible sequence . |
| 20 | That more likely is that you realised well nigh immediately that it was Mr , that 's why you said to Mr I 'm arresting you for harbouring an escapee . |
| 21 | Although it is frightening that so many people take Ecstasy to guarantee a ‘ good time ’ , what is more frightening is that it takes a Class A drug for them to feel they can lose their inhibitions . |
| 22 | What is even more frightening is that the decision-making down here — I am not talking only about the Government , but about the media and the City of London — is conditioned by the thinking of the south-east and of London in particular . |
| 23 | More questionable is whether this dainty twirl of the merry-go-round will do much to change the nation — or this government 's ill-fortune . |
| 24 | More incredible was that all of this violence , all of this blood and gore , all of this inhumanity and human sacrifice was being conducted in the corner of our living rooms , because suddenly it was also the nightly fodder of the television stations , who were only just realizing the potential of on-the-spot coverage of such despicable yet compelling viewing matter . |
| 25 | What makes it all the more remarkable is that , unlike other group-living birds , the individuals involved in these mating combinations are not close relatives . |
| 26 | But what is more remarkable is that so many farmers were sentimental ( and some impecunious ) enough to keep their hedgerows in for so long . |
| 27 | What was more remarkable was that he was not walking but standing still . |
| 28 | The more substantial is that the justices directed that T. 's contact with her older half-sister should be supervised . |
| 29 | And what 's even more sure is that he will do it in some style . |
| 30 | What made it more extraordinary was that everything had conspired against them , from the Home Unions committee 's refusal to grant them official Lions status right through to the kick-off . |