Example sentences of "[be] more [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 some examples of a concept are more typical than others , and are more easily brought to mind .
2 What is worse is that in glass sodium and calcium are more weakly bonded to oxygen than is silicon .
3 Children with difficult or disadvantaged home circumstances are more often admitted to hospital and residential care than other children .
4 These signatures are more readily attributed to source regions within the continental lithosphere , and there are strong indications that it is often the mantle lithosphere that contributes isotopically ‘ enriched ’ ( low- 143 Nd/ 144 Nd ) material .
5 The conference will seek to identify ways in which emerging technology can be more closely geared to end-user needs .
6 One can only assume that the later , powerfully muscled and squatter ankylosaurs were more finely tuned to Earth 's gravity .
7 In the classroom , on the other hand , getting and giving is more nearly related to achievement .
8 The time course of resolution of the hypergastrinaemia during antibacterial treatment indicates that it is more closely related to resolution of the antral gastritis than to suppression of bacterial urease activity .
9 It is , he argues , almost impossible to gain access to the nature of working-class consciousness in the past ; secondly , political practice is more strongly related to strategy and tactics than to views of society ; and thirdly overarching concepts such as culture presuppose internal coherence .
10 Its function is more directly linked to consumption , which it promotes by shattering the imaginary possibility over and over , repeatedly reopening the gap of desire .
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