Example sentences of "more [adj] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | If we are to keep the whole pantomime , the grounds for the awarding of honours need re-examining , and some thought given to how to make the business more representative of a broader spectrum of achievement . |
| 3 | Successive Lord Chancellors have gone on record stating their keenness to create a judiciary more representative of the population as a whole . |
| 4 | It is the processes of recruitment and selection that have the potential to make the volunteer body more representative of the community it serves . |
| 5 | The synods regularly meeting in Rome since Vatican II could claim to be more representative of the Church than the majority of Councils . |
| 6 | Such free-text sources were identified as being more representative of the type of text that the system would eventually have to recognise . |
| 7 | These results are based on considerably expanded sample sizes so may be accepted as being more representative of the expected performance within each domain . |
| 8 | Internal party reforms in recent years have ensured that the delegates to American party conventions are more representative of the population as a whole , with increased numbers of young people , ethnic minorities and women participating . |
| 9 | It is a passage that clearly portrays an intimate similarity between the two characters , although the wife is in some telling respects the more subtle of the two , reflecting the feminine cunning that is so typical of fabliau wives . |
| 10 | but I know the feeling of being a member of a brave band of right-minded guys and gals , charged with responsibility no outsider can imagine , working all hours , with bright minds often in good-looking heads , growing ever more contemptuous of the villainous obstructers out there with little faith , less vision and a paucity of patriotism . |
| 11 | It was always intended that the more usual of the two would be what Volvo term ‘ straight-line assembly ’ , where work in one team area is divided among four or five stations , placed one after the other in the direction of production flow . |
| 12 | What it does not convey are the undulations , the surprising humps and bumps more redolent of a seaside links . |
| 13 | These " festivals " are actually more redolent of a between-the-wars country-house party , frequented by a well-disposed audience of theatrical folk , the likes of David Frost and Derek Jameson , BBC producers , investors and divas . |
| 14 | I wonder how many teachers do give consideration to ‘ what the boys will like ’ when choosing a class text , and expect the girls to be more tolerant of the choice made . |
| 15 | Subjects were more tolerant of the procedure on the second occasion with a tendency towards reduced salivary and gastric contamination within the oesophagus . |
| 16 | So either you say there 's no general will or there is something like a general will , but it is not easily recognizable and for either reason you would want to be much more tolerant of the role minorities , either as a way of getting to the truth , or erm as a way of as it were making up the truth as you 're going along . |
| 17 | The Second Quartet , composed in 1951 , is a far more concise work in a much freer tonal idiom , mostly avoiding the elaborate texture which marks the earlier quartet : perhaps for that reason I find it the more memorable of the two . |
| 18 | Technical Manager or Production Engineer — the latter title is the more popular of the two , in practice , although the former is probably a better description of the role . |
| 19 | A clear and detailed historical account of this event is given by Ammianus Marcellinus , who has always been accepted as one of the more reliable of the ancient historians , although it has been recently pointed out by Professor Malcolm Todd that Theodosius I was the patron of Marcellinus , who can hardly be blamed for enlarging on the achievements of the father of the Emperor . |
| 20 | Even if you have both the parallel and serial leads connected between the two computers , Fastlynx is intelligent enough to test both and choose the faster and more reliable of the two . |
| 21 | ‘ Wright is the more doubtful of the two , ’ Bobby Robson , the England manager , said last night . |
| 22 | Yet when they returned to the trot , Hermes was the more winded of the two . |
| 23 | According to his wife ‘ he was more afraid of the sun , or the black smoke of gunpowder , than he was of musket balls ’ . |
| 24 | After a while , though , when I 'd turned down the side-street where the house was I hoped ) , there were no more sounds to frighten me , and as a result of course I grew much more afraid of the stuffed , dripping silence . |
| 25 | To watch him then was such a mingled joy of yearning and pity that sometimes , frightened of her waking thoughts but more afraid of the nightmares of sleep , she would carry her night-light into his bedroom and crouch by the cot for an hour or more , her eyes fixed on his sleeping face , her restlessness soothed by his peace . |
| 26 | As the months and years passed , Dorian Gray grew more and more afraid of the picture . |
| 27 | In addition to virtually dissolving the Army — a measure described by contemporary witnesses as " completely crazy " — the Prime Minister , Casares Quiroga , refused to distribute arms to the political and trade union organizations of the Left , evidently more afraid of the Republic 's supporters than of its enemies . |
| 28 | Its companions emerged and approached the small fire , but stayed warily at a distance , more afraid of the flame than of the humans who had kindled it , Tallis decided . |
| 29 | " [ A ] man of the humble class who falls into the hands of law " , he wrote , " is more afraid of the process of law itself than of any punishment . |
| 30 | Bolsheviks , on the other hand , were more dismissive of the revolutionary potential of the Russian bourgeoisie , saw the peasantry as more likely allies of the proletariat , and regarded legal activity as no substitute for underground preparation for revolution . |