Example sentences of "more [adj] when [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course there 's no one more supportive when the chips are down , and no one is prouder of you when you 've done well than your old mum … . |
| 2 | Hypocritical though it was , would n't she have been wiser to have led Luke on a little , been a bit more responsive when the opportunity arose ? |
| 3 | The contrast is even more marked when the comparisons are limited to the four Saturday matches against Canterbury ( admittedly one , Richard Wallace , suffering a broken jaw from an Andy Earl swipe ) , four against Auckland , two in the First Test , three in the second . |
| 4 | It 's even more exciting when the book in question is about Willy , the marvellous character he created in Willy The Wimp . |
| 5 | Any minor problems that exist are much more noticeable when the guitar is used with huge amounts of gain . |
| 6 | The stable mechanistic organisation form is more appropriate when the following conditions hold : |
| 7 | The adaptive organic organisational form is more appropriate when the following are true : |
| 8 | Injury is more likely when a joint has become stiff either with age or disuse . |
| 9 | Success is more likely when the problem is maturational and less likely when there is psychiatric disorder of the child , severe family stress , absence of concern by child and parents , urological dysfunction , and developmental delay . |
| 10 | And they do n't figure they , they get more confused when the county council elections come up in ninety three . |
| 11 | It will look even more natural when a little green algae has grown on it . |
| 12 | There are few better exponents of the art of looking as though life is a complete grind than Graham Gooch , who invariably begins his day with a long-distance run , and Stewart is altogether more comfortable when the ship is being run more like a galley than the Skylark . |
| 13 | The apparatus used varies in complexity with the physical nature of the sample , being simplest for an elastomer and becoming more sophisticated when the polymer is more rigid . |
| 14 | Even recovery from something as basically physical as a broken leg will be more rapid when the patient has a determined and optimistic outlook on life . |
| 15 | Finally , let us note that the inherent ambiguity exemplified here is even more obvious when the righteous indignation of established authority is directly expressed in mystical sanctions which do not require the intervention of a third party such as the ancestors . |
| 16 | It is more embarrassing when the copper goes through my pockets . |
| 17 | They are more effective when the national economy is expanding fast and when national rates of unemployment are low . |
| 18 | Schools tend to be more effective when the relationship between the teachers and pupils is ‘ good ’ and when the latter are offered status and respect ; when expectations are high ; when there is an emphasis on rewarding good , rather than punishing bad , behaviour ; when there is an overall approach characteristically described as neither permissive nor authoritarian . |
| 19 | That , however , could be catered for with appropriate wording and we should then feel more confident when a UK aircraft crashed abroad . |
| 20 | The idea was mooted to make the Bundesrat more powerful when the constitution was being drawn up : it might have resembled its much more powerful namesake under Bismarck 's truly federal constitution . |
| 21 | The degree of risk created by the bad driving should be regarded as the crucial factor ; it is not so much a question of whether the sentence should be more severe when the risk eventuates , as whether the sentence should be more lenient when the risk does not materialize . |
| 22 | There is little evidence , however , to correlate serum concentrations after the dose with toxicity , and indeed experimental nephrotoxicity caused by gentamicin is more severe when the total daily dose is divided than when it is given by a single bolus , when concentrations after the dose are higher . |
| 23 | Such measures become all the more important when the overdose is a repeat . |
| 24 | This comes even when death has been expected for some time , but is even more dramatic when the death is sudden . |
| 25 | Life gets more complicated when the typeset text is too long or too short to fill the space allocated on the page . |
| 26 | Life gets even more complicated when the type is set across different widths , or ‘ measures ’ ( look at p 140 of last week 's issue ) . |
| 27 | However , the situation immediately becomes more complicated when an attempt is made to determine precisely what language a child is capable of producing , how much a child understands , and , if the child appears to be experiencing difficulties , just where these difficulties lie . |
| 28 | One of Thompson and Spencer 's ( 1966 ) list of ‘ criteria ’ for habituation is that habituation proceeds most readily with closely spaced trials ; but latent inhibition appears to be more profound when the pre-exposure trials are relatively widely spaced ( Lantz 1973 ; Schnur and Lubow 1976 ; but see also Crowell and Anderson 1972 ) . |
| 29 | This is all the more apparent when the Chandos stones are compared with three linked novels — Huntingtower , Castle Gay and The House of the Four Wind — in which John Buchan at the same period explored the code of honour through the fortunes of Saskia , a distressed maiden , and the dynastic troubles of the fictitious kingdom of Evallonia . |
| 30 | That became even more apparent when the second script came in , and so we had to drop it . |