Example sentences of "more [adv] [verb] by [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today , it seems , domestic development is much more effectively promoted by integration in a world economy : accepting foreign capital into the domestic economy , with production specialized for a world market ( and relying upon imports ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Terror , counter-terror , torture , and the absolute necessity of violence ( later much more clumsily explored by Leone in A Fistful Of Dynamite ) are relentlessly portrayed , all to Ennio Morricone 's least flowery score ever . |
| 6 | Probably more so in fact , for all organisms are more seriously threatened by competition from their own species than from others . |