Example sentences of "more commonly [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was , moreover , a considerable amount of discretion in terms of what might count as ‘ violence ’ in a street robbery , and it seems likely that street robbers were more commonly charged with ‘ bag-snatching ’ which was regarded as a less serious offence than ‘ robbery with violence ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | As Hannah and Kay observe ‘ the elimination of inefficient productive capacity is now less frequently achieved through the action of bankruptcy in a competitive market process , but more commonly emanates from decisions to ‘ rationalise ’ made by a bureaucratic organisation ’ . |
| 4 | Tachycardia recognition is now more commonly achieved by heart rate analysis alone , with either separate epicardial , extrapericardial , or endocardial sensing electrodes . |
| 5 | For instance ivory was sometimes used in Sumer and the Aegean to make the seals more commonly made from different kinds of stone . |
| 6 | It is significant , for example , that the artist 's claim to ‘ freedom ’ , to ‘ create as he wishes ’ , was much more commonly made after the institution of dominant market relations , and must be both positively and negatively related to them . |
| 7 | Advice and protection were more commonly given for diseases such as tetanus and malaria than for sexually transmitted diseases such as gonorrhoea and syphilis ( table ) . |
| 8 | Transmission teaching , or ‘ recitation teaching ’ as it is more commonly called in the United States , is so pervasive within the school system that it can easily be interpreted as the ‘ natural ’ or ‘ proper ’ way to teach , as a network of rules and procedures special to the teaching environment which must be learned , rehearsed and developed in a practical way by the new teacher in order to gain competent membership of the teaching community , and of the classroom order in particular . |
| 9 | On the Von Neumann computer this was called the arithmetic register ( AR ) ; but it is more commonly referred to as the multiplier-quotient ( MQ ) or quotient ( Q ) register . |
| 10 | This type of audit is more commonly referred to as a ‘ structural survey report ’ or ‘ building inspection report ’ . |
| 11 | Extrusive igneous activity is more commonly referred to as volcanism and occurs where magma erupts on to the surface either as flowing lava , or as fragmental material thrown into the air by explosive volcanic activity . |
| 12 | Active chronic duodenitis in patients not taking NSAIDs was more commonly diagnosed in our study than in that reported by some workers , who studied this abnormality in patients with non-ulcer dyspepsia . |
| 13 | Better known and more commonly employed in the daily lives of the Hebridean people were the plants used for dyeing wool . |
| 14 | The physical characteristics , which include slanted eyes , a short flat nose , a short neck , a fissured tongue and stubby hands , have made them instantly recognisable to the general public , where they are more commonly described as ‘ mongols ’ . |
| 15 | As the figures on page 59 show , bank accounts are still more commonly held by people in higher socio-economic groups than those in lower ones . |
| 16 | Accidents more commonly occur in dark stables than those that have a glimmer of light . |
| 17 | A large number of overseas and international qualifications , such as the International Baccalauréate or the Irish Leaving Certificate , are also accepted : a list of the overseas qualifications more commonly offered by applicants is to be found in the overseas section of this prospectus . |
| 18 | Events characterised by loss , on the other hand , were more commonly experienced by patients with a depressive disorder . |
| 19 | They are fascinating in themselves , but they also offer us humans many of the benefits of pet ownership more commonly attributed to dogs and cats . |
| 20 | Just as with the predicate qualifiers , the occupation by postverbals of a syntactic position more commonly taken by an adverb seems to accord well with the fact that a favoured form for questioning them is how ? , unless pre-empted by a question based on pragmatic categories such as what colour ? . |
| 21 | Although the terms by which police officers refer to black people are in common use in various other social contexts , they seem to be more commonly used within the Met than in most other groups : there can be few other groups in which it is normal , automatic , habitual to refer to black people as ‘ coons ’ , ‘ niggers ’ and so on … |
| 22 | Yet the interview , especially of the formal and standardised type in which questionnaires are used , is more commonly used in connection with survey research , which means that standardised interviews using questionnaires are the most frequently used social research technique . |
| 23 | Automatic accruer is perhaps more commonly used by professional partnerships ( and has the practical advantage of not being dependent upon compliance with a prescribed timetable ) but there is considerable uncertainty as to whether such an arrangement should be regarded as a binding contract for the sale and purchase of the partnership share so as to take its value outside the scope of business property relief for the purposes of Inheritance Tax ( see Chapter 10 ) . |
| 24 | Lawyers may find it helpful to employ communication techniques more commonly used by other child care professionals to ascertain a child 's degree of understanding . |
| 25 | One problem that is more commonly encountered in the Z3 than in the Z1 or Z2 Carbonates , is that the sediments are widely affected by cementation and replacement by halite . |
| 26 | Congenital deafness is more commonly associated with some dogs than others — white boxers , for example , are prone to this condition . |
| 27 | It also includes tools which allow the user to examine a Document Type Definition structure graphically , without detailed knowledge of SMGL syntax — in short , the company claims that it combines the cumbersome power of SMGL with the simplicity more commonly associated with a WYSIWYG word processor . |
| 28 | It is important to distinguish work of this kind , and to emphasize its possible value , by comparison with that narrowest version of the social conditions of art ( often called ‘ sociologism ’ or ‘ sociological relativism ’ ) , which is more commonly associated with Marxism . |
| 29 | 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 ’ . |
| 30 | It will also inform policy makers and industrial relations practitioners , by examining the consequences of introducing into the public sector management methods more commonly associated with some private sector enterprises . |