Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] more [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reality of life at passenger-level , mentioned only indirectly , could have been examined more thoroughly to determine the efficiency of British Rail 's service delivery , surely the basis for its existence . |
| 2 | Social attitudes , influenced by widespread publicity campaigns , are hardening against the drinking driver ; and demands for tougher sentencing policies , or for new legislation on random breath tests , are heard more frequently . |
| 3 | In many cultures this leads to an asymmetry between ways of offering agreements and disagreements in talk : agreements are given more immediately , are more frequent , and are given openly , while disagreements are relatively infrequent and are hedged about with hesitations and excuses : see Pomerantz ( 1984 ) for an extended discussion . |
| 4 | For the last decade , such accolades have been heard more rarely since Mr Swinton chose a hermit 's life in the West Country and no paintings of his have come before the Selection Committee at the Royal Academy since he left London . |
| 5 | We need to know much more about this , but until these ideas are developed more adequately for use in work with elders , the practitioner may have to be somewhat rough and ready in assessing the capacity of an elder to use both practical and verbal consciousness . |
| 6 | ‘ If geography is to play a full role in the study of environmental problems it is important that greater stress be given to the biosphere , which constitutes a vital resource base for man , and which has been altered more extensively by human activities than most other elements of the environment . ’ |
| 7 | It was excavated by Bushe-Fox in 1911–12 , and has been excavated more extensively within the last ten years by Barry Cunliffe , using the latest archaeological techniques . |
| 8 | But problems begin to arise when such stylistic criteria are pressed more precisely . |
| 9 | The professional competencies required of first and second level nurses are commensurate with the level and duration of initial nurse training , and these are examined more closely in Chapter 7 when discussing changes in nursing practice generally . |
| 10 | Financial problems are examined more fully in Chapter 5 but as each individual case is different the visits suggested above should be carefully considered . |
| 11 | When dinosaurs ' eating habits and teeth and jaw mechanisms are examined more fully , one wonders why only the terminal Cretaceous/Tertiary extinctions are the subject of endless debate rather than any of the preceding extinctions . |
| 12 | A wide range of differences in attitude and life-style are associated with these objective economic differences between middle and working class , and these are examined more fully in Chapter 3 . |
| 13 | It is anticipated that this approach will be extended to the advanced courses catalogue when it has been developed more fully . |
| 14 | Divisional heads therefore have incentives that , compared to the U-form , are aligned more closely with corporate ( global ) goals and which discourage over-pursuit of functional ( sub-global ) goals . |
| 15 | Further interesting insights into patterns of variation emerge if the rules are formulated more abstractly , a procedure motivated by the partial conflation in the Belfast phonological system of several separate but related phonological processes ( chiefly those of backing , rounding and raising ) . |
| 16 | These are experiences which lead towards number and are explained more fully in chapters 7 and 8 , Towards Number and Apparatus , Toys and Games . |
| 17 | These concepts are explained more fully in Section 5.3 . |
| 18 | New skin cells are formed more slowly and worn-out cells , which are pushed to the surface , tend to stay around in patches . |
| 19 | If , however , the studies are pursued more widely and the research becomes deeper , the need for ready-to-hand volumes and essays will increase geometrically . |
| 20 | So relatively accessible is it , that the Pic du Midi has become a thoroughly domesticated mountain ; as Belloc noted with distaste early this century , ‘ No other of the great mountains of Europe have been put more thoroughly in harness , ’ and since Belloc was there it has been harnessed more thoroughly still . |
| 21 | Many drugs are acidic or alkaline and this affects their removal in the urine ; acidic drugs are excreted more easily in the daytime and alkaline ones at night . |
| 22 | And Miss Temple , please make sure the girls ’ stockings are mended more carefully . |
| 23 | Furthermore , in the case of the Netherlands , von Beyme ( 1980 ) sees the tendency towards decentralisation in the early 1970s as a reaction to the failure of attempts to promote a central incomes policy — which had been pursued more strongly than in other countries . |
| 24 | The affected fish are targeted more accurately . |
| 25 | In neither case does a clear picture emerge of the true value of any improvements in relation to the the organisation as a whole , and often the analyst is left with an uncomfortable feeling that more could have been achieved if the situation had been approached more methodically . |
| 26 | There is a central role for specialists who can integrate the formal with the informal , who are able to influence the centres of power , and are committed more closely to the missions of the NHS than just financial reward . |
| 27 | The only difference is that fixed pairs are attested more often than non-fixed pairs . " |
| 28 | Nemesis had been wounded more severely than the others . |
| 29 | The total and individual needs of each child are considered more fully , and the assessment procedure which precedes recommendations for educational placement calls for information from medical , psychological and educational sources as well as involving parents actively in the final decision about where and how the pupil is to be educated . |
| 30 | Volcanic landforms are considered more specifically in the classic work by Cotton ( 1944 ) and in the more recent books by Ollier ( 1988 ) and Green and Short ( 1971 ) . |