Example sentences of "more often [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the phrase ‘ private school ’ is nowadays more often applied to non-maintained schools generally ; in this sense , it includes public schools . |
| 2 | The trading employees in India were not paid salaries in the modern sense of income they could live on ; they got small retainers , starting at perhaps £5 a year , and it was taken for granted that they would supplement their retainers by trading , sometimes acting as agents buying the goods that would eventually be exported by the Company ( though this could easily lead to fraud ) , but more often dealing for their own account . |
| 3 | The British Standards Institution , Kitemark , more often seen on goods like washing machines and fridges , could soon be appearing on solicitor 's headed notepaper . |
| 4 | Fortunately for him , he is more often seen as the ‘ little boy lost ’ ( which is often just how he feels , so his suffering is considerable ) , for apart from his obvious grief and loneliness , who now will cook his meals and iron his shirts ? |
| 5 | However , the returned veteran was more often seen as the protagonist in a revenge story , typically involving drugs , crime and violence . |
| 6 | Atrophic gastritis and superficial gastritis were more often seen in the alcoholic patients , which accounted for the hypochlorhydria seen in a group of these patients . |
| 7 | In the heart , clinically significant cardiac amyloid with congestive heart failure is more likely in AL than in AA , because extensive amyloid interstitial infiltration in the myocardium is more often seen in AL than in AA . |
| 8 | However , this form of individualism is more often tempered by the acknowledgement that social factors at least exert some formative influence on character , with the result that the individualist element of explanation is somewhat muted . |
| 9 | The former clinic patients with anti-social behaviour were considerably more often diagnosed by the research psychiatrists as having a sociopathic personality than were the comparison group . |
| 10 | In Britain , for the Irish entering in search of a new life , Liverpool and London stations were their gateways to the streets more often paved with misery than with gold . |
| 11 | Such questions are more often asked in the interview situation than in a postal questionnaire . |
| 12 | It can be observed , however , that minimum late fetal mortality falls more frequently in the 20–24 years age group in the European countries than in countries of other continents where the nadir more often occurs at ages 25–29 . |
| 13 | Particularly striking exemplars are the penannular neck ornaments or torcs , the hoops of which were hollow or more often formed of twisted rods or finer wires , having loop terminals decorated by lost-wax casting combined with surface tooling ( fig. 19 ) . |
| 14 | US companies , he said , generally use the AS/400 as a departmental machine , while in Europe it is more often employed as a central server in medium-sized firms . |
| 15 | US companies , he said , generally use the AS/400 as a departmental machine , while in Europe it is more often employed as a central server in medium-sized firms . |
| 16 | Although such a strategy is possible as a distinct strategy , it is more often employed as a tactic for reducing emissions as part of the air quality management strategy . |
| 17 | Derived from policies which seek to preserve the landscape qualities of the English countryside , such estates have more often contributed to its deterioration . |
| 18 | But underground performances often surfaced spontaneously and were even more often end with the power being cut , equipment being confiscated and punishments for the organisers . |
| 19 | Propagated contractions were more often recorded in the proximal oesophagus ( p<0.05 ) , whereas non-propagated contractions occurred about twice as often in the distal as in the proximal oesophagus ( p<0.001 ) . |
| 20 | With the development of Imperial architecture and the need for large public gatherings in baths and basilicas the space was more often vaulted with brick and concrete . |
| 21 | I think it is the critical statements , rather than the words of praise , that are more often uttered in the hearing of girls . |
| 22 | To overcome this shortcoming the Goblins have developed a unique machine known as the Doom Diver Catapult , more often referred to as the bat-winged loony lobber . |
| 23 | They gave the ruler of Spain , more often referred to as the Holy Roman Emperor , Charles V , possessions of a type previously unknown . |
| 24 | In fact it 's , it 's more often referred to correctly as a conference . |
| 25 | In reply to three direct questions ninety per cent report fragmentation , and seventy-five per cent monotony , but the percentage drops to fifty per cent in the case of time pressures : these are more often referred to spontaneously in the course of discussing housework tasks . |
| 26 | This kind is more often exercised in private than in public places , the concept of ‘ legitimate authority ’ tends to be irrelevant to it , and it is less visible and less easily amenable to sociological analysis . |
| 27 | The police more often came under physical attack and began to respond with a steadily escalating counter-violence . |
| 28 | Royal taxation usually had to be for the defence of the realm , but this was no longer interpreted with the narrow precision attempted by Winchelsey , and clerical objections and conditions more often turned upon other considerations : redress of grievances , exemption from lay burdens such as the ninth and purveyances , or simple impoverishment . |
| 29 | What has changed for the stockman is more often connected with the intensification of livestock production . |
| 30 | This is important because while an online facility enables the database to record information about a highly dynamic process , management information is more often related to a fixed point in time or a precisely controlled period . |