Example sentences of "[be] more [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This book is useful but could have been of more value if it had been more clearly grounded in practice . |
| 2 | The evidence for an association between personality characteristics and an interest in science has been more fully reviewed by Head ( 1979 ) . |
| 3 | There were significant changes in the services provided , but these are more properly discussed in Chapter 4 . |
| 4 | Even magistrates , whose sentencing powers are more closely confined by law , enjoy a considerable degree of discretion within those upper limits . |
| 5 | The ridges are more freely distributed in orientation . |
| 6 | Many couples enter into marriages with the highest intentions , and while the chemistry is most potent the intentions are more easily converted into action . |
| 7 | However , among the things which we tend to think of as good there are some few things which are more easily conceived in abstraction from any larger social or natural context and we will expect Moore 's method of isolation to reveal these as the main bearers of intrinsic goodness . |
| 8 | some examples of a concept are more typical than others , and are more easily brought to mind . |
| 9 | Few subjects are more hotly debated in curriculum committees . |
| 10 | The latter are more slowly converted into blood sugar , mainly because of the digestive processes described in the previous chapter . |
| 11 | Water Rails are more generally distributed in winter , when birds have recently been recorded in up to 20 inland localities in one winter , more than in any one breeding season . |
| 12 | What is worse is that in glass sodium and calcium are more weakly bonded to oxygen than is silicon . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ( Plasmas are more often used for polymer synthesis and for surface treatments such as metal nitriding ) . |
| 15 | Children with difficult or disadvantaged home circumstances are more often admitted to hospital and residential care than other children . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | For example , each model sees the amount of legitimacy conferred upon a dispute as influencing the way it is handled by the police ; and there is similar agreement that deep-seated ‘ ideological issues ’ are more commonly associated with disorder than more mundane ‘ material issues ’ . |
| 18 | The only difference is that sugars and starches , in the form of refined carbohydrate foods , are more quickly converted into blood sugar . |
| 19 | The workings of the Board and its committees are more fully described on page 23 . |
| 20 | Probably more so in fact , for all organisms are more seriously threatened by competition from their own species than from others . |
| 21 | I , I do n't know the answer to that offhand , but it 's , I 'm inclined to think that erm at least by the time of the Republic there are things that some people are more naturally predisposed towards philosophy and other people are less naturally predisposed towards philosophy . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Many of the other common aneuploidies ( such as trisomy 13 , trisomy 18 , and Turner 's syndrome-XO ) are associated with physical abnormalities that are more readily appreciated on ultrasound scanning than the subtle ones associated with Down 's syndrome . |
| 24 | No systematic attempt is made at this point to resolve the many doubts about the details of Hocazade 's career , particularly the dates of his various appointments , since his career impinges on those of a number of Muftis and the conflicts are more appropriately discussed in detail where they arise in these contexts . |
| 25 | Present-day runners , whether amateur or professional , are more suitably attired in vest and shorts and well-trained . |
| 26 | Whether the risk is one against which the occupier may reasonably be expected to offer some protection will depend upon factors which are more usually taken into account when assessing the standard of care , e.g. the nature and extent of the risk , practicability of precautions and , possibly , the type of entrant . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The process whereby rivers have been straightened and lowered to allow all riverside land to be more intensively cropped for grass and grain has often been expensive in terms of both wasted investment and loss of landscape . |
| 29 | Time of presentation can be more objectively obtained from hospital records and is more relevant when assessing service requirements . |
| 30 | 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 . |