Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] more [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A fair bit of pressure is needed to get the chips securely seated and a broken motherboard tends to perform rather more slowly than a complete one ! |
| 2 | The men and women of Mandru 's household interacted rather more freely than was common among the upper class of Shanariah . |
| 3 | Pricing restraints are treated much more harshly than non-price restraints . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , most natural populations , at most times , change much more slowly than they would if subjected to strong directional selection . |
| 5 | The rule for raising before velars , however , is strong and active and does not seem to have begun to recede lexically : in word-list style ( which is usually considered to be formal ) it persists much more strongly than post-velar raising ; neologisms undergo the rule , and it affects spelling ( see the discussion of ‘ occasional spellings ’ below ) . |
| 6 | It was true , of course , that property was dispersed much more widely than in Europe . |
| 7 | Gartner believes that by 1995 ‘ Sun will compromise much more substantially than it previously has , de-emphasizing Sun-specific application programming interfaces and services such as Open Network Computing and Open Look in favour of X/Open , OSF and USL-endorsed interfaces . ’ |
| 8 | A system can be designed much more economically if it can be assumed that skilled personnel are available to control and take care of it . |
| 9 | There was , however , one man she regarded perhaps more highly than any other , and that was the retiring , talented and very muscular boxer Marcel Cerdan , who unfortunately already had a wife and three sons . |
| 10 | Others look for evidence of rituals and declare that ritualistic and satanic abuse is happening much more often than most people are prepared to believe . |
| 11 | Exercises that increase stamina are those that require you to breath slightly more heavily than usual for a prolonged period of time ( say , an exercise session of thirty minutes or so ) . |
| 12 | The skilled negotiator summarizes ( see page 159 ) and tests understanding far more frequently than the less skilled . |
| 13 | Mainly , the leading eugenists devoted themselves to preparing ‘ pedigree studies ’ of pauper families in order to establish that the residuum was a degenerate sub-species , genetically afflicted by feeble-mindedness , insanity , al holism , venereal disease , criminality , tuberculosis , and infant mortality , which multiplied far more quickly than superior members of the race . |
| 14 | This means that the language of literature is no longer regarded as subordinated to the message supposedly carried by the text , and this emptiness of content illustrates far more powerfully than could anything else the primacy of language itself . |
| 15 | ‘ Of course , Gooseneck did tell me that Fagg suffers from gout and haemorrhoids , which make him behave even more horribly than when symptom-free . ’ |
| 16 | But yes , the trend is the same as the national one , there is an increase in arson , possibly that 's also influenced by the fact that we 're better at detecting arson and we 're becoming increasingly more so as the years go by , and calls that would have been recorded as unknown in the past , would now be recorded as this . |
| 17 | It does seem that photographs of black convicted rapists appear proportionately more often than those of white rapists . |
| 18 | For professional development teachers the result was that they had only been able to learn through personal experience and had thus done so more slowly than was necessary : |
| 19 | Dividend pay-outs are much lower in Japan and Germany than in Britain and America , but this is not the only or even the main source of returns to shareholders : they receive capital gains ( indeed they prefer them in Japan , where dividends are taxed much more heavily than capital gains ) and , especially in Japan , gain business advantages through shareholdings in customers or suppliers , for instance . |
| 20 | ( see fig 7 ) This can be applied much more easily because it is not rigidly defined in the way that Burgess ' model is . |
| 21 | Since the stock of dinar assets held by households has risen much more slowly than this , the proportion of household assets held in foreign exchange accounts has steadily grown : while in 1980 this proportion was less than 40 per cent , by the end of 1986 it had reached nearly 70 per cent . |
| 22 | In the fifties and early sixties the cost of imports had risen much more slowly than prices inside the advanced countries . |
| 23 | A side-effect of the right of citizens to make foreign exchange deposits has been that , as inflation has continued and accelerated , the dinar value of these deposits has grown much more rapidly than the value of dinar assets held by households . |
| 24 | Part-time enrolments have grown somewhat more rapidly than full-time ones , but the trends in first degrees awarded are more complex , with a slight decline in the universities and a steady increase in the polytechnics/colleges in recent years . |
| 25 | I had started to fear that each of us controls the manner in which we die much more closely than is generally supposed . |
| 26 | Each piece , given space , will grow much more quickly than leaving the budded offset attached to the base of the main stalk . |
| 27 | Indeed , they can do so more accurately than traditional methods . |
| 28 | Professional qualifications are stipulated much more commonly than academic degrees . |
| 29 | Indeed , as Evers ( 1984 ) found in her study , old people who in objective terms may be described as severely disabled may continue to perform these services , such as preparing the evening meal , and many function domestically more competently than those who are less physically impaired . |
| 30 | Not surprisingly , less familiar shapes are named incorrectly more frequently than more familiar ones . |