Example sentences of "[vb past] more [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | These changes followed from recommendations set out by the Public Accounts Committee ( PAC ) in its Eighth Report of 1986–7 ( HC 98 ) Members said that they wanted documents tailored more specifically to Parliament 's needs in its consideration of departments ' expenditure proposals and put forward three proposals ( Cm. 375 ) . |
| 2 | A different complexion might be put on the same phenomena if instead we referred more particularly to the problems of ‘ criminal justice ’ and ‘ penal policy ’ . |
| 3 | At other times , William Joyce referred more vaguely to his father as being of independent means . |
| 4 | France and West Germany had presented a proposal for an immediate co-ordinated financial aid package amounting to some US$15,000 million , but the USA had argued that it could not commit itself to direct aid until the Soviet Union had reduced military spending , moved more forcefully to a market economy and curtailed its aid to Cuba . |
| 5 | In small firms doing sub-contract work for the large car assembly plants , where the level of unionisation was weak , and management hired and fired labour in line with demand as it rose and fell , the form of work organisation approximated more closely to that which Braverman describes . |
| 6 | This sympathy may have explained the level of applause she got at the end of her opening song , so that she came more confidently to centre for her second . |
| 7 | In the second half , Thame came more in to the game and created a couple of chances , however in the sixty fifth minute , Sean Liden won the ball on the halfway line , his long ball found Gary Weaving who turned and placed a low shot past Mayhew to make it one nil . |
| 8 | Compared with unoperated controls , women after hysterectomy were more likely to consider themselves constipated ; they also strained more and admitted more often to bloating and feelings of incomplete evacuation . |
| 9 | Progress was greater , for example , with developing management systems than with defining objectives , decentralization was developed more readily in field offices than in headquarters and policy divisions , and performance measurement applied more easily to inputs than outputs , and to administrative rather than programme expenditure . |
| 10 | The laws of purity developed in Leviticus were elaborated by the rabbinic teachers , and applied more strictly to relations in the family , as the Temple worship was abolished by the Roman destruction of the second Temple in AD70 ( see Leonie Archer 's essay in this book ) . |
| 11 | Jumping off , Perdita threw herself into Dancer 's arms , hugged the twins , and then turned more shyly to Ricky . |
| 12 | Conversation during the meal had been general , but now it turned more specifically to the château , and the prospects of the year 's vintage . |
| 13 | Women died in childbirth , everyone succumbed more readily to disease and people still coveted things which did n't belong to them . ’ |
| 14 | Amongst readers of the same paper ( or paper-group as defined in Table 8.17 ) those who said they relied more on the press than on television were more likely to swing in the direction of their paper 's partisanship : Sun/Star and Express/ Mail readers who relied more on their papers swung more strongly to the Conservatives than Sun/Star and Express/Mail readers who relied more on television ; at the same time , Mirror readers who relied more on their paper swung towards Labour , while Mirror readers who relied more on television swung towards the Conservatives . |
| 15 | The Bass V reviewed in ‘ Oldies ’ , April ‘ 91 belonged more obviously to the dedicated bass side of the Fender family , but was n't introduced until 1965 , whereas the Bass VI appeared on the scene directly after the Jazz bass , which itself appeared during the tail-end of 1960 . |
| 16 | Mallachy talked more quietly to Karen , asked her about Manchester , and what the girls did normally , and how long she 'd known Jessica and Ireland . |
| 17 | Cp6 bound more strongly to HLA-B51 than to HLA-B53 but the allelic variants of this peptide with single amino-acid substitutions at position 4 , cp6.1 and cp6.2 , bound more strongly to HLA-B53 and very poorly to HLA-B51 ( data not shown ) . |
| 18 | As a demonstration of functional expression of the transferred env fusion gene , the virus particles expressed by these cells bound more efficiently to NIP.BSA-coated plates than to phOx.BSA-coated plates as indicated by subsequent transfer of puromycin resistance to NIH3T3 cells ( Fig. 6 ) . |
| 19 | He argued that either symbol was used whenever it fell more easily to the hand . |
| 20 | Profits from the US division fell more modestly to £1.9 million , with Florida timeshare making more , while central costs more than halved to £4.3 million . |
| 21 | It is difficult to make broader international comparisons in social policy , but Kaim-Caudle ( 1973 ) placed the UK top among ten countries for its health service provision , though in his survey of wider social security policies the top place went more often to other countries , the Netherlands , West Germany and Denmark . |
| 22 | Benjamin was the oldest of the Frankfurt writers and related more directly to the neo-Kantianism of a previous generation of German scholars , which included Simmel and Weber , than did Adorno or Marcuse . |
| 23 | Karst landforms related more specifically to fluvial activity are discussed in Chapter 9 . |
| 24 | The party took more easily to modern electioneering than did the Liberals , and gained an unexpected bonus in the votes of women , who have been a force for conservatism since their enfranchisement in 1918 . |
| 25 | Family structure , in other words , conformed more closely to the nuclear form . |
| 26 | Now that Anne was a married woman Carrie spoke more freely to her , and told Anne that the midwife was to blame . |
| 27 | In large part , Labour was successful because it responded more effectively to political and structural change . |
| 28 | Patients and relatives responded more positively to the ward survey than did visitors . |
| 29 | Suitably for a competition now sponsored by Vaux Breweries , we drank more potently to its continued success . |
| 30 | In some departments , noticeably the music departments , there was evident relief that the restrictions caused by the previous ‘ O ’ level system had been eradicated , and that at long last an examination had been introduced that corresponded more closely to the actual nature of their subject . |