Example sentences of "[noun sg] more [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , and the growing trend in American society to express displeasure more vociferously and outspokenly than in the past , is said to lie at the root of recent player-directed violence ( ibid.:204–5 ) . |
| 2 | In combination with his ardent desire to improve the living standard of the British working man , this made for a potent brand of imperialism ; few politicians took the Dual Mandate more seriously than Ernest Bevin . |
| 3 | Singers are called upon to exercise this talent more often than instrumentalists but Mr Cliburn realised that his success depended in large part on boyish charm . |
| 4 | Although that would reduce the union block vote more drastically than other options , it would also give both sides a veto . |
| 5 | Paul ‘ popped round ’ for tea more frequently than was decent for a visiting lecturer , and he seemed to get on very well with everyone . |
| 6 | Hopefully the initial push towards the enemy will ensure that the Fanatic hits the enemy more often than he hits his mates … but you can never be sure . |
| 7 | Perhaps one of the greatest advantages of a systems viewpoint has been to cement the branches of physical geography more closely and therefore to make what Walton ( 1968 ) characterized as the unity of the physical environment a more realistic prospect . |
| 8 | Finally , the restructuring school conceptualizes industry more clearly as capitalist . |
| 9 | Print-on-paper publishing remains the dominant force in the information industry more widely but electronic media have established practical , affordable alternatives . |
| 10 | The descriptive aspect of the analysis does however appear to reflect administrative practice more accurately than the ideal of rational decision-making . |
| 11 | She may know that her tears will relieve her tension more effectively than shouting back or pretending not to notice , or they may be tears of anger rather than the vulnerability so despised by her colleagues . |
| 12 | Thus it is necessary to examine the cell more closely and to try and understand its internal programme and how it responds to external signals . |
| 13 | Actually , a man greatly appreciates a woman who bears a lamp ; he depends on the feminine light more deeply than most men are willing to admit . |
| 14 | It was found that women on the high fat diet gained weight more easily than women on the low fat diet and a similar project for men reached the same conclusion . |
| 15 | Lose weight more quickly than ever before , because a larger proportion of the calories you consume will remain undigested ; |
| 16 | So on a 1,000 calorie high-fibre diet the body is going to shed weight more quickly than on a normal 1,000 calorie diet of varied food — or on any other 1,000 calorie diet . |
| 17 | Over the past years , many claims have been made suggesting that the inclusion of some particular food in a slimming diet would specifically help overweight people to shed weight more quickly and effectively . |
| 18 | Now , for the first time in the history of medical science , a substance has been isolated about which it is possible to say : ‘ If you base your slimming diet on this food you should shed weight more quickly and easily than on a diet based on the same quantity of any other foods . ’ |
| 19 | On the other hand , remedial discretion should not be seen as a substitute for defining the grounds of judicial review more carefully and narrowly . |
| 20 | Yet , my feeling is that the spirits could bear my reproaches for bad advice a good deal more easily than men of flesh and blood to whom contusions and abrasions , the common result of argument , are very real sources of anguish . |
| 21 | I said , a good deal more calmly than I felt . |
| 22 | I found parental " insignificance " a family situation which figured a good deal more often than might be expected from mere chance in the history of dependent individuals . |
| 23 | For this reason , I think that such difficulties arise a good deal more often than is generally appreciated . |
| 24 | The ontological idealist , given his general metaphysical premisses , can at least argue that what we regard as " physical bodies " are really no extra-spiritual entities , for all entities are either spiritual or are explicable in terms of attributes of such entities , and although his position gives rise to all kinds of difficulties , he can , on the whole , present his case a good deal more consistently than a dualist can . |
| 25 | Religions which are ‘ light-based ’ usually exalt the masculine force more strongly than the feminine , and female followers of such religions have to approach the central mystery through the masculine pole . |
| 26 | It seems likely that the first of these surveys probed reasons for job loss more deeply than the latter , and that the second 's estimates are too low . |
| 27 | It allowed Franco to play the nationalist card more blatantly than ever , using his public appearances to recall the horrors of the Civil War and to present himself as both martyr on the altar of Spain 's liberation from communism and guarantor of the continued existence of Spain as a coherent socio-political entity . |
| 28 | The effectiveness of a measure of word length is very writer dependent , and alternative methods of calculating this figure more accurately and consistently need to be evaluated . |
| 29 | And the mites are even more devious : somehow , they persuade other ants to feed the host ant more often than usual , and sometimes even manage to intercept this food before the host can swallow it . |
| 30 | As fig. 5.12 shows , these subjects learned the test more readily than did control subjects that were trained on the same task but had received initial Pavlovian training in which the tone and clicker were uncorrelated with reinforcer type . |