Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] more [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To stick to the motor car analogy , the design of cars has improved more rapidly because a designer can incorporate in a single design a synchromesh gearbox that originated in one model with fuel injection that originated in another . |
| 2 | I have been lucky that my condition has progressed more slowly than is often the case . |
| 3 | Our business investment has increased more rapidly than in any other major economy except Japan . |
| 4 | You have already noticed in your SAS practice of up-to-time sentences that sometimes the mouth seems to open more noticeably than at others . |
| 5 | As the whole system is headed by a man , it is likely that the village has to move more frequently than if it were headed by a woman . |
| 6 | Mat-forming plants like pinks seem to develop more freely than in conventional borders and , since there is gravel between them , you can walk among your treasures without having to tread on bare soil . |
| 7 | Inspired by Mr Coase , economists began to look more carefully than before for transactions in property rights . |
| 8 | Although municipal waste seems to grow more slowly than income in rich countries , it does still grow . |
| 9 | I believe that the linkages to the meteorological stations have operated more effectively than hitherto . |
| 10 | Any factor found to occur more often than would be expected by chance in the childhood histories of adult psychiatric cases could be linked to disorder in at least three ways . |
| 11 | Of course , if the linker needle is bent the same applies , but machine needles get bent more frequently than the linker needle , the weighting needs to be correct . |
| 12 | The idea that the rich world faces a rubbish crisis has been aggravated by the fact that in some countries new landfills have opened more slowly than old ones have closed . |
| 13 | The government has spent more heavily than its predecessors on promoting its policies . |
| 14 | Indeed , they boasted proudly that retail electricity prices had risen more slowly than the retail price index in general : although their own tariffs had risen faster , average consumption had gone up and the extra kWh had been sold at the lower incremental charges of two-part or block tariffs , thus bringing the average domestic price in their first ten years down by a fifth in real terms . |
| 15 | Sales of OS/2 have gone more slowly than some at Microsoft had hoped . |
| 16 | Left to themselves , without adult interference , groups of children tend to become more rather than less aggressive as time goes by . |
| 17 | The Pittsburgh group also described a similar constellation of findings and noted that HBV infection seems to progress more rapidly when it recurs in a second allograft . |
| 18 | Some children become institutionalised more quickly than others , and she still had a bit of fire left in her when I went to the orphanage for her . |
| 19 | But many argued that evacuation had revealed more clearly than ever the existence of a degraded ‘ underclass ’ , and in the late 1940s and 1950s several inconclusive but much-publicised surveys were conducted into the precise numerical incidence of problem families in Britain . |
| 20 | But that is because love is a social emotion , not a biological one : young women do n't love sagging bellies and grey hair , they love money and power which men have to offer more often than women do . |
| 21 | But the range of the provision had expanded more dramatically than the basic numbers suggest . |
| 22 | Not only would any subsequent residential development be wonderfully placed to take advantage of the new route into the heart of the city — thereby making the houses attractive to those whose business was in the city centre — but past experience had shown more often than not that the railway barons could well pay a fortune for any land they needed . |
| 23 | Their expenditure had increased more sharply than that of other authorities but this was partly due to the government 's own policy of spending more on law and order and accepting above-average increases in police pay . |
| 24 | We furthermore demonstrate that plexiglass in combination with lead shields 32 P induced Bremsstrahlung more efficiently than plexiglass alone . |
| 25 | But the experts need to know more precisely when and by whom the bodies of Uffington were buried . |
| 26 | The build-up of ozone-destroying chemicals has slowed more rapidly than expected , even before international agreements to phase them out took full effect . |
| 27 | Despite what seemed to be a nice little boom , British productivity had grown more slowly than that of any comparable European country : 40 per cent compared with Germany 's and Italy 's 150 per cent , not to consider Japan 's 400 per cent . |