Example sentences of "more strongly [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As women mature , their outward appearance becomes more and more strongly related to character . |
| 2 | It is , he argues , almost impossible to gain access to the nature of working-class consciousness in the past ; secondly , political practice is more strongly related to strategy and tactics than to views of society ; and thirdly overarching concepts such as culture presuppose internal coherence . |
| 3 | At Sleaford a higher proportion of graves with amber beads contained small-long brooches and pendants than those without , the latter being more strongly characterised by the presence of cruciform brooches . |
| 4 | But they were very much more strongly opposed to him than were many orthodox Christians . |
| 5 | Psychologically , as the response is always rewarded when this crucial element is present , the response becomes more and more strongly connected with the relevant cue and extinguished as a response to other cues . |
| 6 | It might seem unfair to pursue the Morse comparison , but it could hardly have been more strongly invited in this BBC1 thriller . |
| 7 | There was implicit in it , therefore , in the case of Western societies , the idea of a movement towards socialism , particularly when the development of social rights was more strongly emphasized by the creation of welfare states . |
| 8 | Both it and Eta have M-type spectra , and are obviously orange when seen through binoculars ; it is interesting to compare their colours , and I have often found Eta the more strongly coloured of the two , though the difference is very marginal . |
| 9 | Where loving and intimate relationships are concerned , we seem to be more strongly influenced by familial blueprints and unconscious preoccupations than by other factors . |
| 10 | Writing of the Salon des Indépendants of 1914 , Apollinaire saw another influence at work : ‘ This year Futurism has begun to invade the Salon , and whereas from the reproductions they publish , the Italian Futurists appear to be ever more strongly influenced by the innovators of Paris ( Picasso and Braque ) , it would seem that a certain number of Parisian artists are being influenced by Futurist theories . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It does not consider other features of classroom learning that might be more strongly affected by the presence or absence of examinations . |
| 13 | If the ones that survive or breed more easily carry a particular version of the character , the character will be more strongly represented in future generations . |
| 14 | The anatomy is also more strongly stressed in this than in the earlier statue , perhaps to tell against reflections in the shiny metal ; and this is something that becomes even more marked in succeeding generations . |
| 15 | However , although our attention will naturally be more strongly drawn to established senses , to limit the discussion in principle to these would lead to a distorted picture of word-meaning . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | For example , Buttel and Flinn ( 1977 ) in a survey of Wisconsin residents found only weak support for the hypothesis that ruralism was more strongly associated with environmental ( ecological ) concern rather than agrarianism . |
| 18 | Consistent with this , birth weight is more strongly associated with death before 65 years than with death at all ages . |
| 19 | In both the total population and among younger men periodontal disease and oral hygiene were more strongly associated with total mortality than with the incidence of coronary heart disease . |
| 20 | This part of the record business , getting the records to the consumers , had been even more strongly dominated by the major companies than had the origin of recordings . |
| 21 | The overall conclusion was that bombing did not stiffen morale , but seriously depressed it : fatalism , apathy , defeatism , and other psychological effects were all more strongly encountered among bombed than umbombed sections of the population . |
| 22 | Blood pressure in children and adults is more strongly predicted by thinness at birth and a high ratio of placental weight to birth weight than by birth weight alone . |
| 23 | Curiously , I have become even more strongly persuaded of that since I began dabbling in the making of political television programmes . |
| 24 | Yet the overt ruralism of the prose is more strongly qualified in the verse , where country , primitive , with its ‘ daemonic , chthonic/ Powers ’ is seen as ultimately no better than city unless-redeemed by the Christian vision . |