Example sentences of "[adv] more [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The firm is perhaps more strongly committed to growth than Spencer Stuart , recently taking on more new consultants and expanding into the stylish Devonshire House development opposite the Ritz Hotel in Mayfair place . |
| 2 | Unlike more organised writers he might perhaps more easily fall into contradiction , but it seems more likely , or at least more satisfactory , to suppose that Coleridge was fashioned greatly by his environment when writing . |
| 3 | At the same time , however , the child 's status as a child is perhaps more tightly defined through employment legislation , the raising of the school-leaving age ( thus depriving the child of an independent source of income as well as retaining him or her within an institutionalized system of control ) , and the growth of a market geared to particular and distinctive images of childhood and adolescence . |
| 4 | At one level , therefore , the English Reformation was undoubtedly ‘ an act of state ’ , or perhaps more accurately acts of state — a series of changes initiated by monarchs and imposed by them upon their subjects . |
| 5 | Today , it seems , domestic development is much more effectively promoted by integration in a world economy : accepting foreign capital into the domestic economy , with production specialized for a world market ( and relying upon imports ) . |
| 6 | Taking a steady look at it , thought Nelly to herself , easing off her shoes for greater comfort , it was n't such a bad little house , and certainly very much more conveniently placed for shopping than her own cottage at Lulling Woods . |
| 7 | I do n't see the support of victims of crime as a separate service provided by a small specialist agency but as something which should be much more widely accepted like sickness or bereavement , so that people can get a more sensitive and understanding response from their employers , neighbours , doctors and so on . ’ |
| 8 | Gold is much more widely distributed in nature than jade . |
| 9 | Some assessments are much more directly related to action for improving a teacher 's teaching and assisting pupils in their learning rather than for classifying them by their level of attainment . |
| 10 | Terror , counter-terror , torture , and the absolute necessity of violence ( later much more clumsily explored by Leone in A Fistful Of Dynamite ) are relentlessly portrayed , all to Ennio Morricone 's least flowery score ever . |
| 11 | The period of greater stability — the ‘ mid-Victorian equipoise ’ which followed has been somewhat more adequately mapped by research than the upheavals that went before ( see , for example , Bailey 1978 ; 1986a ; Brat ton 1986 ; D. Russell 1987 ; Scott 1989 ) . |
| 12 | PIROS is essentially a simplified version of PARIS II designed to be much more general and thus more readily suited for use over a variety of locations . |
| 13 | Some things are more genuine than others , or rather more firmly rooted in evidence . |
| 14 | At the same time qualities of loyalty , caring and unashamed affection are highlighted as lives become ever more intimately linked by bereavement . |
| 15 | Individuals usually more widely scattered over shore than Golden Plovers , and less given to manoeuvres in close flocks . |
| 16 | A woman 's liver is also more readily damaged by alcohol than a man 's . |
| 17 | In the 1860's the French anthropologist and anatomist , Pierre Paul Broca called attention to the fact that language disorders ( termed ‘ aphasias ’ ) were far more commonly observed after damage to the left hand side of the brain . |
| 18 | Tachycardia recognition is now more commonly achieved by heart rate analysis alone , with either separate epicardial , extrapericardial , or endocardial sensing electrodes . |
| 19 | Aphrosyne Taylor-Agathangelou , now more commonly known as Folly Taylor , emerged from the Rose Bowl — from her Rose Bowl — in a daze of excited speculation . |
| 20 | He was trusted , according to opinion polls , rather more in Western Europe than his American counterpart , and the regime he headed was seen as more seriously committed to peace and disarmament . |
| 21 | The other tax benefits are even more clearly linked to income , with those on highest income claiming the lion 's share of their value . |
| 22 | Anistreplase is given intravenously as a bolus ( 30 units ) and is therefore more easily administered outside hospital than an infusion . |