Example sentences of "[verb] more [adv] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will he accept that we are asking the Social Democratic and Labour party and the unionists to work more closely than parties normally do in Great Britain ? |
| 2 | While Brunner 's interpretation of Calvin was weak at many points — as Barth took a somewhat mischievous delight in pointing out — his claim to stand more clearly than Barth in the line of Calvin was not without foundation . |
| 3 | In this way it is hoped to establish more precisely where competition for jobs takes place between young people and adults , where young people are protected from competition , and where they are not even considered . |
| 4 | Tranmere would have won more comfortably if Aldridge , the League 's leading scorer with 38 goals , had managed to convert a fortuitous penalty , awarded for a handling offence by Butters . |
| 5 | Wendy feels the failure to conceive more keenly than Mark . |
| 6 | Lydia lies more comfortably than baby Hoskins , the angle of the corpse vis-à-vis the pillow being less exaggerated . |
| 7 | It seems that while everybody does dream during REM sleep , most dreams are forgotten and some people forget more readily than others . |
| 8 | It is clear that science will advance more efficiently if theories are so structured as to contain within them fairly clear clues and prescriptions as to how they should be developed and extended . |
| 9 | Dr Kenneth Kirk offered this criticism years ago , that some people are moved more easily than others by suffering and death . |
| 10 | The progressive dismantling of regional development policy since 1979 has moved more swiftly than steps aimed at deregulating the housing sector . |
| 11 | Erm , the facts are , and this is all in Trivers if you want to look up erm if you want to look it up in more detail , that males die more readily than females , from all causes that affect both sexes and some that even do n't and you 'd be astonished about , like for instance , you gather from John book on the myth of he heterosexual you 're not allowed to buy in this country , you have to import it from the U S. |
| 12 | So the reason why males die more readily than females , and this is true for nature by the way , not just human levels , it 's a practical universal effect that the males die more readily than females , that males are ultimately selected for reproductive success for erm survival as such . |
| 13 | So the reason why males die more readily than females , and this is true for nature by the way , not just human levels , it 's a practical universal effect that the males die more readily than females , that males are ultimately selected for reproductive success for erm survival as such . |
| 14 | And of course it 's er it 's a commonplace that human males die more readily than females . |
| 15 | The reason why males die more readily than females do is attributable to the effects of testosterone and the only cure for this is to be castrated , and the earlier you are castrated the lo if you 're a male , the longer your life expectancy will become compared with , compared with females . |
| 16 | Many people know , for example , that alcohol taken on an empty stomach is absorbed more quickly than alcohol taken with food . |
| 17 | Alcohol in fizzy drinks is absorbed more quickly than alcohol in still drinks . |
| 18 | Tears came more readily than thanks . |
| 19 | Archaeology and history combine to show that jade was rated more highly than gold among some of the most sophisticated and highly civilized peoples of antiquity both in the Old World and the New.l To understand the appeal of jade it is essential to handle the material itself . |
| 20 | The reproduction rates of some countries , regions and classes dropped more steeply than others . |
| 21 | In practice this means they can borrow more cheaply than banks and thrifts which , being unable to compete with them , have increasingly decided to join them . |
| 22 | Those issues all interact , of course ; like those fiendish three-dimensional puzzles that children can often do more easily than adults , the pieces have to be put together simultaneously , or the whole thing falls apart . |
| 23 | Some puppies tend to respond to training more quickly than others . |
| 24 | In places the trees do grow more thickly and pines occur in some hilly areas . |
| 25 | This may or may not be desirable : administrators sometimes act more quickly than lawyers and judges ( they are certainly a lot less expensive ) , but they are always vulnerable to regulatory capture and they can make bad decisions if they are poorly funded and undermanned ( for some observations on this issue , see Areeda , 1992 . ) |
| 26 | Once again this can not be easily interpreted , and the two possible face-value interpretations — that Blacks are being sentenced more harshly than Whites , or the Blacks are more criminal — oversimplify the situation . |
| 27 | Joint promotions are not specific to consumer goods , but are to be seen more often as companies attempt to find new promotional techniques . |
| 28 | However , this is but the reverse side of the Janus face of justice , for in their eyes it happens more often that criminals are released or are not put in prison for long enough . |
| 29 | He added : ‘ It happens more often than people realise that children do not want to live with their parents . |
| 30 | In the breeding season males peek more often than females . |