Example sentences of "[det] [vb -s] more [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the US , in contrast , exchanges are more orientated towards domestic retail business , and this encourages more extensive government supervision . |
| 2 | These are all basic points , but it is still necessary to tackle the question of how the kind of speeds mentioned earlier can be achieved , and this involves more detailed consideration of the way the system should be designed . |
| 3 | This looks more uniform , and the old names are then described as ‘ trivial ’ . |
| 4 | This allows more valid comparisons between population sub-groups ( for example , age groups , occupational groups ) and with other communities of different size . |
| 5 | This requires more relevant courses , higher standards and improved provision . |
| 6 | If your appetite has been whetted and all this sounds more dynamic than your present position , you might just be wondering where is the catch ? |
| 7 | This sounds more difficult than it is — you 'll be surprised how quickly you can become quite proficient at it . |
| 8 | Certainly , this seems more plausible than the story of Franco 's late arrival , which was almost certainly invented later as part of the propaganda campaign to present him as the powerful statesman for whom even Adolf Hitler would wait . |
| 9 | This seems more likely than that everything will be back to normal by this autumn , as the government claims . |
| 10 | This gives more tonal flexibility and response , making these basses arguably more studio-friendly . |
| 11 | This becomes more apparent when the topic-shift is repeated later in the scene ( p. 46 ) , where , at the end of an extremely disorderly and uninformative turn , he again 'skip-refers " to the wings through the minimal comment , " Wag , wag " . |
| 12 | Although less of a problem with twentieth- or late nineteenth-century figures , this becomes more serious with individuals from an earlier age , for three reasons . |
| 13 | Perhaps as this becomes more accepted practice , and the benefits of computerised client data are demonstrated , more bureaux will be encouraged to use a computer to record client data for social policy work . |
| 14 | This becomes more important with increasing age , when people can expect to lose long-standing friends at an ever-increasing rate . |
| 15 | This becomes more important when new products are introduced bearing a brand name normally associated with dissimilar products . |
| 16 | Once the activities of an organisation have been divided up , they need to be coordinated and this becomes more difficult with the complexity of the organisation 's activities . |
| 17 | This provides more rapid access to established files , and less-frequent reorganizations . |
| 18 | That sounds more Italian than English to me . ’ |
| 19 | That gets more complex . ’ |
| 20 | The latter allows more focused advertising and distribution and probably higher margins . |
| 21 | Of course it all gets more complicated after that … |
| 22 | The latter seems more likely . |
| 23 | If it chooses war it may deem it necessary to attack Syria before the latter becomes more powerful , but in doing so it risks incurring unacceptably high casualties . |
| 24 | The former seems more likely in larger companies and the latter in small , particularly new , companies . |
| 25 | It is disputed whether these onion domes were a development indigenous to the area or whether the idea came from further east , but the former seems more likely on the weight of evidence ; they were being built by the mid-twelfth century here and were designed in a great variety of shapes and in large numbers . . |
| 26 | Dooling predicted that when subjects had to decide whether the target sentence was meaningful , a sentence context should make this task easier than a word context since the former provides more advance information about the likely meaning of the target sentence . |
| 27 | In this book , that means more analytical and less narrative material than there would have been in a book written half a century ago . |
| 28 | That means more routine passport checks for every black person living in Britain , and identity cards for everyone . |
| 29 | Here is a most revealing instance of the way a difference within the same , teleologically construed , can make a great deal of difference : in effect a difference of degree can be as real as a difference of kind but in a different way : the lesser is inferior and thereby inimical in a way the antithetical can not be , and the same becomes more ditferent than difference itself . |