Example sentences of "more [adv] [verb] by a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nine were more powerfully motivated by a wish to escape from their present job , and expressed relief over leaving it . |
| 2 | Images captured from TV , sent back from space , or more prosaically produced by a document scanner , are likely to fall into the same category . |
| 3 | Today , jury trials are out of fashion , because censorship of the media is more easily achieved by an injunction , granted by a judge sitting in secret , or by a directive from a regulatory body like the Independent Broadcasting Authority , or by the decision of a magistrates ' court . |
| 4 | Setting the scene and capturing attention are more easily assisted by a computer program than the other aims . |
| 5 | I sought to prove that , if an aerodrome or transport park was the objective of an operation , then the destruction of 50 aircraft or units of transport was more easily accomplished by a sub-unit of five men than by a force of 200 men . |
| 6 | Nor have we really explained our feeling for these sequences : why an order is more appropriately followed by a refusal than by a reassurance , for example . |
| 7 | Just as with the predicate qualifiers , the occupation by postverbals of a syntactic position more commonly taken by an adverb seems to accord well with the fact that a favoured form for questioning them is how ? , unless pre-empted by a question based on pragmatic categories such as what colour ? . |
| 8 | Defining sufficient interest is relatively easy where one or more persons are more seriously affected by a decision than people generally . |