Example sentences of "[am/are] more [adv] [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Toucans live in the forests of South and Central America and are more closely related to woodpeckers than to hornbills . |
| 2 | Another theory concerning the relationships of the Recent taxa suggests that lampreys are more closely related to gnathostomes than either is to hagfishes , implying that hagfishes are the most primitive of craniate animals ( Fig. 2B , a ) . |
| 3 | These similarities , together with several other less obvious features , suggest that cephalapsids are more closely related to gnathostomes than either is to lampreys . |
| 4 | The new features that have been discovered by re-examining Recent taxa alongside the many new fossil finds during the past 15 years lead to classifications that suggest that lampreys are more closely related to gnathostomes than either is to hagfishes . |
| 5 | B , a , This theory suggests that lampreys are more closely related to gnathostomes than to hagfishes ( agnathans are considered paraphyletic ) . |
| 6 | The clubmosses , which created most of the coal seams , are more closely related to ferns than they are to pine trees , and oil — from which most synthetics are obtained — is not derived from plants at all . |
| 7 | Secondly , in general courts are more favourably disposed to clauses which limit liability rather than those which completely exclude it ( Cf Rasbora Ltd v JCL Marine Ltd [ 1977 ] 1 Lloyd 's Rep 645 and RW Green Ltd v Cade Bros Farm [ 1978 ] 1 Lloyd 's Rep 602 . ) |
| 8 | some examples of a concept are more typical than others , and are more easily brought to mind . |
| 9 | What is worse is that in glass sodium and calcium are more weakly bonded to oxygen than is silicon . |
| 10 | Children with difficult or disadvantaged home circumstances are more often admitted to hospital and residential care than other children . |
| 11 | 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 . |