Example sentences of "is more [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the classroom , on the other hand , getting and giving is more nearly related to achievement . |
| 2 | The third kind of relational information , that between speaker and bystander , is more rarely encoded in bystander honorifics . |
| 3 | The time course of resolution of the hypergastrinaemia during antibacterial treatment indicates that it is more closely related to resolution of the antral gastritis than to suppression of bacterial urease activity . |
| 4 | There can be little doubt that attractiveness in women is more closely associated with sexuality and sexuality with youth , than is the case for men . |
| 5 | The central strip is more firmly fixed in place by two or three panel pins . |
| 6 | The west façade is more richly decorated with sculpture than is usual in England ( 448 ) . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | Consistent with this , birth weight is more strongly associated with death before 65 years than with death at all ages . |
| 10 | The ideology of the three Thatcher governments is more clearly demonstrated in housing than in any other area of social policy . |
| 11 | The distinction is more clearly seen by analogy with breathing and eating : both are instinctive — yet , whilst nobody shows us how to breathe , learning to take sustenance is more problematic . |
| 12 | The origin of such pruning is possibly associated with the discouragement of other invading ants , for it is more frequently found in ant species with stinging rather than other chemical defences . |
| 13 | This is particularly so in the case of course-integrated instruction and this ideal is more seldom reached in practice than course-related education . |
| 14 | Its function is more directly linked to consumption , which it promotes by shattering the imaginary possibility over and over , repeatedly reopening the gap of desire . |
| 15 | Drama , inevitably , is more culturally specialized by language , but in many of its other elements of movement and scene it is widely and inherently accessible , as is clear in mime and was very evident in the silent film . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This vicious circle is more precisely specified in Chapter 7 . |
| 19 | Is one of the matters to which the inspectors ought to be applying their mind whether or not this land is more appropriately regarded as countryside or part of the village ? |
| 20 | The condition is more appropriately treated in specialist addiction units . |
| 21 | Experience of these techniques has recently prompted Oldfield ( 1983b ) to propose a steady-state model of ecosystem change related to man 's impact on environment as an additional alternative to more familiar successional and cyclic models , and this is more appropriately considered in relation to other time-bound developments ( chapter 8 , p. 182 ) . |
| 22 | We may extend our analysis of urban-rural shift to these years , 1981–87 , by reference to Table 5.5 , which disaggregates the South and North of Great Britain further into types of districts , a breakdown that is more fully explained in Chapter 7 and utilized in Chapters 8 to 11 . |
| 23 | The issue of natural genius is more fully treated in chapter five below ; here , it is necessary to observe that Duck 's success was largely a consequence of the attention inevitably accorded to a prodigy of any description . |
| 24 | ( This theory is more fully described in Chapter 5 . ) |
| 25 | This is more fully discussed in Chapter 8 . |
| 26 | Section 56 is more fully considered in Chapter 22 ( para. 22–14 below ) . |