Example sentences of "[be] more [adv] [verb] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The evidence for an association between personality characteristics and an interest in science has been more fully reviewed by Head ( 1979 ) . |
| 2 | Even magistrates , whose sentencing powers are more closely confined by law , enjoy a considerable degree of discretion within those upper limits . |
| 3 | I might agree in terms of lowland farming where farms are more often controlled by investment groups than by single families , but hill farming has always been , and still is , a hard and often heart-breaking as well as back-breaking job . |
| 4 | Although this means that student groups are more evenly balanced by gender than was the case with earlier generations of students , men still outnumber women in so-called " traditional " male subjects such as maths , engineering and applied science . |
| 5 | Probably more so in fact , for all organisms are more seriously threatened by competition from their own species than from others . |
| 6 | This is made crystal clear in a somewhat laboured exposition in a book by Preece and Maier published in 1889 : Let us suppose the two microphonic transmitters are placed on the stage at T and T 1 , and these transmitters separately connected by two distinct wires to two telephone receivers , R and R 1 , which are applied to both ears to hear the actor , whom we will suppose to be placed at A. It is easy to understand that , the distance of this actor from transmitter T being less than that from transmitter T 1 , his song will be more distinctly reproduced by transmitter T than by T 1 , and the stronger impression will be produced on the left ear . |
| 7 | Stephen Gould , in his excellent essay on The Pan da " s Thumb , has made the point that evolution can be more strongly supported by evidence of telling imperfections than by evidence of perfection . |
| 8 | In north west Scotland sailing and climbing are ideal combinations as much of the wilder country can be more quickly reached by sea . |
| 9 | The neighbourhood ( for which physical limits may be assigned ) acted as a base for a group but , often , these groups could be more accurately defined by housing and class interests than purely by locality . |
| 10 | Blood pressure in children and adults is more strongly predicted by thinness at birth and a high ratio of placental weight to birth weight than by birth weight alone . |
| 11 | The distinction is more clearly seen by analogy with breathing and eating : both are instinctive — yet , whilst nobody shows us how to breathe , learning to take sustenance is more problematic . |
| 12 | Drama , inevitably , is more culturally specialized by language , but in many of its other elements of movement and scene it is widely and inherently accessible , as is clear in mime and was very evident in the silent film . |
| 13 | Following this last point it is significant that the birthrate tended throughout the nineteenth century to be highest in areas where employment opportunities for women were lowest , for it is likely that knowledge was more easily acquired by factory workers than by those in service or those who stayed at home . |
| 14 | But Trawsfynydd was more seriously affected by radiation , which gradually makes welds brittle in the steel pressure vessel holding the reactor 's heart . |