Example sentences of "more [adv] [verb] by the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the vast majority , the historical gap between the age of the martyrs and the age of the established church was more effectively bridged by the cult of the martyrs . |
| 2 | The British and the West Germans , however , remained convinced that the USSR would be more effectively restrained by the belief that Nato would use tactical nuclear weapons almost from the start of a war . |
| 3 | Theories may also in the US be more rigorously tested by the wealth of longitudinal studies and demographic statistics . |
| 4 | Changes in awareness might , therefore be more successfully measured by the degree to which such models are revised than by the extent to which behavioural objectives are achieved . |
| 5 | The fictional morphology of this suffering is more aptly suggested by the novelist and critic Akhsharumov , writing the very year Crime and Punishment appeared in hard covers , who observes that Raskolnikov 's mental torment , which is his punishment in all but its public aspect , begins with his first promptings towards the crime . |
| 6 | Yesterday , Mr Pignatelli reported that Mr McNeill said he had oversimplified ‘ the very complex matter of possible factors affecting the occurrence of handicap ’ to make it more easily understood by the public . |
| 7 | Divers in a bell are more easily controlled by the supervisor . |
| 8 | At first sight , the location of protest sub stantially among Romania 's alien ated Hungarian minority suggests that it may be more easily confined by the leadership in Bucharest . |
| 9 | Their greater height posed no problem for spore dispersal : if anything , it was a help since up in the tree tops , spores were more easily caught by the wind and carried away . |
| 10 | Leaving aside this argument , however , we must also recognize that scholars have sometimes been more generally influenced by the notion that written language should be uniform , even in a period in which it plainly was not uniform , and they sometimes appear to chide the scribes for spelling variably . |
| 11 | Third , the fortunes of the new cosmology were more deeply affected by the antagonism between Catholic and Reformed Christianity than by the doctrinal peculiarities of either . |
| 12 | However , this form of individualism is more often tempered by the acknowledgement that social factors at least exert some formative influence on character , with the result that the individualist element of explanation is somewhat muted . |
| 13 | The former clinic patients with anti-social behaviour were considerably more often diagnosed by the research psychiatrists as having a sociopathic personality than were the comparison group . |
| 14 | We found that the decision to end a marriage tends to be unilateral , and is more often taken by the wife ; there is widespread evidence of regret , but this is confined to one party in most cases ; while some members of the divorcing population allege that divorce is ‘ too easy ’ , these people will often say that they themselves have struggled with their marital problems for many years . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It does not consider other features of classroom learning that might be more strongly affected by the presence or absence of examinations . |
| 18 | Land-agents and estate agents passing through at the brief moment of negotiation are likely to be more exclusively dominated by the money motive . |
| 19 | However , the protection of hay , straw or even unthreshed corn was more simply achieved by the erection of a more modest and inexpensive building than the traditional flail-threshing barn . |
| 20 | Motion film can be more readily understood by the use of editing , decreasing the rate of the film and exploding motion sequences . |
| 21 | The book by Clifford Joseph is in a sense the more readable and will perhaps be in more readily appreciated by the none-specialist in tax matters who wishes to understand the essentials of the tax but is not necessarily concerned with an exhaustive treatment of the subject . |
| 22 | It is very rarely the case in real life that we can predict in detail the form and content of the language which we will encounter , but , given all of the ethnographic information we have specified , the actual occurring utterance is much more likely ( hence , we assume , much more readily processed by the addressee ) than any of the following ‘ utterances ’ which did not occur : |
| 23 | on point more adequately made by the deputy about C O two emission , are there any other comments that people want to make , or are you agreed that we refer back to council as it is ? |
| 24 | Waste regulation authorities will be more closely scrutinised by the inspectorate and councils will have to plan for recycling , for which they will also be given wider powers . |