Example sentences of "more [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is worse is that in glass sodium and calcium are more weakly bonded to oxygen than is silicon . |
| 2 | Such fiction , unconcise and more naturally given to carnality than wit , had been unashamedly dominated by story , and it was characteristically fast-paced and impatient of extended description , whether of scene , of motive or of mind . |
| 3 | Sugar and fat are also frowned on in the report because they can more easily lead to obesity than some other foods . |
| 4 | According to recent analysis performed by the Forensic Laboratory in Rijswijk in the Netherlands , Goldreyer restored the canvas and then simply painted over the surface , in some areas using up to six layers of alkyd paint , more usually applied to furniture and floors . |
| 5 | Children with difficult or disadvantaged home circumstances are more often admitted to hospital and residential care than other children . |
| 6 | Certainly this event postdates the mammalian radiation , since species more distantly related to man than the old world monkeys do not possess multiple copies of KOX2-related sequences . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |