Example sentences of "more [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What can be more refreshing to the feelings of an artist , than to observe the localities of colour subdued and almost amalgamated with the floating atmosphere ; the fore-ground in chastened tones and tints , and the distances swimming in celestial blue ? ’ |
| 2 | However , the new orientations of the molecules will be even more absorbing to the — darker ’ directions of the scene , for which the glass will now be even more strongly tinted . |
| 3 | The relationship of the media and public relations has slowly grown more professional over the years . |
| 4 | ‘ I think the better the players are treated in these respects , the more enthusiastic is their response to the challenges before them , ’ points out McGilligan , ‘ Let's face it , the whole sport has become more professional off the field — and it 's good to see it — so I do n't think too many people would begrudge players a few wee perks . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I really believe that the design of p.o.s. has got much more professional in the past few years , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Although she was asleep , I whispered , I forgive you , and made a mental note to be more professional in the future . |
| 7 | Cerecloth , a waxed unbleached linen — nowadays only seen as the protective sheet between the top of an altar and the fair linen — was rarely used for shrouds and is more associated with the wrapping of embalmed corpses , having been used as an adjunct to such hygienic treatment . |
| 8 | Because it is on that occasion that you will already have , and will on your final visit , have made up your mind as to the nature of the northern part of the village of Skelton , the nature of the land immediately surrounding it , whether it be a paddock , or a small field , whether it be more associated in the minds of some with the open country , or in the minds of others with the village . |
| 9 | Or a shade more solid on the straight ? |
| 10 | With Nigel Clough withdrawn into a defensive position , Forest looked more solid at the back — even though they conceded a 12th minute Rod Wallace goal that gave Leeds fleeting hope of registering their first away win for almost 12 months . |
| 11 | It 's only breast milk it 's like that , if they have bottles , bottled milk it 's more solid from the beginning , but it 's not nice , this is n't bad , messy , but it 's not smelly . |
| 12 | The rain was briefly rather more solid in the early afternoon , but most of the time it was a minor sprinkle . |
| 13 | In the Foreign Office case it was felt that the responsible ministers should have been more alert to the possibility of aggression by Argentina . |
| 14 | This anomaly became even more striking as the increase in merchant prosperity was accompanied by deterioration in the economic position of the ruling class . |
| 15 | Far more striking in the changed atmosphere of the 1950s is the case of Romania . |
| 16 | The differences between wild-type and truncated polymerases are more striking in the presence of the cAMP-CRP at the lac UV5 promoter . |
| 17 | But this was even more striking in the colonial empires . |
| 18 | More striking by the 1820s than the continuity of the theme of the incompatibility of slavery with a true moral and religious order was the much fuller expression than at the end of the eighteenth century of the precepts of economic liberalism as part of the antislavery appeal ; abolitionists now clearly departed from mercantilist policy assumptions . |
| 19 | The complete silence was made more striking by the occasional inarticulate cry of some old Phalangist . |
| 20 | You 've made things admirably clear , and I 'm the more grateful to the Commissioner for taking what may turn out to be my unfounded worries so seriously . |
| 21 | French troops , deafened by the thunderous roar , felt yet more deaf with the unexpected , but long-prayed-for , silence . |
| 22 | This alternative approach , instead of looking for polarities and constructing rigid distinctions in intellectual development with which to correlate similarly reified literacy practices , recognises these literacy practices as themselves social products , no more isolable from the political and ideological context than are the ‘ scientific ’ achievements that Goody would associate with them . |
| 23 | This may be technically insider-dealing , which is far more rife in the City than people have generally been led to believe . |
| 24 | As Repetto ( 1988a ) has discussed , the continued availability of subsidies for conversion of forest to pasture makes it more economic for the investor to clear further forest than to purchase fertiliser or control weeds in existing pasture . |
| 25 | Although it decays into the short-lived iodine-132 , it is more mobile in the environment and the timing of its passage through the cow or human gut could be critical . |
| 26 | It 's meant to make them more mobile in the mud and it 's a far cry from the rigours of the scrum . |
| 27 | Various links have been proposed and discussed , but they are on the whole more revealing of the disparity between the two problems than of their convergence . |
| 28 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
| 29 | Early reviewers were more upset by the social conscience which poems like this displayed than by the outlandish verses , and did not understand why a poet should be concerned with the study of ‘ low and rustic life ’ . |
| 30 | Kelly grunted , seemingly no more upset by the destruction of his diner than he would have been by a broken plate . |