Example sentences of "more commonly [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is significant , for example , that the artist 's claim to ‘ freedom ’ , to ‘ create as he wishes ’ , was much more commonly made after the institution of dominant market relations , and must be both positively and negatively related to them . |
| 2 | Just as with the predicate qualifiers , the occupation by postverbals of a syntactic position more commonly taken by an adverb seems to accord well with the fact that a favoured form for questioning them is how ? , unless pre-empted by a question based on pragmatic categories such as what colour ? . |
| 3 | Although the terms by which police officers refer to black people are in common use in various other social contexts , they seem to be more commonly used within the Met than in most other groups : there can be few other groups in which it is normal , automatic , habitual to refer to black people as ‘ coons ’ , ‘ niggers ’ and so on … |
| 4 | This is more commonly known as the trait approach to leadership . |
| 5 | The former are important in unconsolidated or cemented siliciclastic rocks whereas the latter is more commonly considered in the context of carbonate sands and limestones . |