Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] more [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul ‘ popped round ’ for tea more frequently than was decent for a visiting lecturer , and he seemed to get on very well with everyone . |
| 2 | Management is described in terms of change more often than in terms of standstill or consolidation . |
| 3 | For instance , the censuses of 1971 and 1981 investigated country of origin more fully than had been done previously to extend knowledge about the immigrant population . |
| 4 | They take the book of Revelation more literally and believe the second coming of Christ is imminent . |
| 5 | If they have n't remained constant over our sampling period , right , then there 's no point in making our sample predictions , alright , we 've got to have at least the confidence that our model is re relatively stable over our small sample , right , in order to make any sort of predictions about the behaviour of the dependent variable that we are looking at and the parameter of interest out of sample more often than not when we have parameter instability that does n't always signal a change in government policy , it often signals the fact that you 've got a very poor model , a model er is mis-specified and so if we detect a structural change in our model , we first of all try and explain why it may come about |
| 6 | Women feel the effects of alcohol more quickly than men do . |
| 7 | He played the role of bodyguard more visibly than any of his predecessors , to such an extent that Minton began to complain his sex life was ruined . |
| 8 | After a while she emerged , quite unchastened , and went on running her House of Music more successfully than ever . |
| 9 | Parents and teachers , like writers of computer programmes , build certain sorts of information more deeply and irreversibly than others into their systems ( children ) ; in the idiom of computer engineers they hard-programme them . |
| 10 | When the turbulent motion is occurring in a flow with a large mean velocity , it is possible for the turbulence to be advected past the point of observation more rapidly than the pattern of fluctuations is changing . |
| 11 | Indeed Shanghold et al ( 1985 ) believe : ‘ pregnancy is hard work , and a woman who is fit can do the work of pregnancy more easily than a woman who is not fit ’ . |
| 12 | Charles was thus able to mobilize French resources for war more effectively than his predecessors , and to pay his troops more regularly . |
| 13 | These include : Proposed revisions to market hours in order to make official dealing times , mandatory quote periods and Seaq dealing times overlap more closely than at present . |
| 14 | It 's a role that also brings team-mates into play more often and more decisively , most notably on Wednesday when a brilliant flick sent away Wright to make the second goal . |
| 15 | Common-law jurisdictions , other than England , may press such doctrines into service more frequently than in England , and may develop new doctrines . |
| 16 | He would n't want to waste his time chasing that story if I 'd already done it , and I can get a story into print more quickly than the British magazines he supplies . |
| 17 | Here also it appears that sub-sales are taken into account more readily than in the case of non-delivery . |
| 18 | So with humanism more generally and more radically : it is not to be imitated , not modified , not simply borrowed from or differently applied ; rather , its appropriation and transformation is conditional upon its negation , the using of it destructively against itself . |
| 19 | Such clinics burgeoned under the 1991 general practitioner contract , but there is no evidence that they detect or deal with disease more effectively than case finding within ordinary consultations . |
| 20 | It is possible to paint with quite a small brush the details of shadows and shapes of clouds — in fact more so than is generally accepted . |
| 21 | Unless hardware maintenance providers broaden the range of services they offer , position their products correctly and market them right , they will not succeed in today 's hardware market , which is dropping in value more rapidly than previously predicted . |
| 22 | Erm , since the wider range investments on the whole tend to increase in value more rapidly than the narrower range investments , then as the investments in the normal course of management are bought and sold , the proportion which you have invested in the wider range tends to increase faster than the proportion that you have invested in the narrower range . |
| 23 | Another day of dreadful toil had come to the industrial ghettos of early Victorian Glasgow , a world often forgotten and ignored , a world echoed throughout Britain where families lived and died bounded by a few streets , walled from the world of green and life by an invisible fence , a dead hand that bound them in chains of language , and rags , and marked them for life more surely than any thief was ever branded at Glasgow Cross . |
| 24 | She 'd better make the most of the occasion and put her views on marriage more forcibly once she returned home . |
| 25 | No other section of the French community was boosting the will to war more substantially than the women ; and it was certainly no accident that , as a source of inspiration , La Madelon had almost replaced La Marseillaise . |
| 26 | The historian , Geoffrey Hudson , once wrote that ‘ no factor leads to war more ineluctably than the steady decline of relative power ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ Mind you , ’ he added fairly , ‘ doctors are able to get their hands on poison more easily than most of us . ’ |
| 28 | A generation that 's gone to prison more often than it 's gone to schools or cinemas a generation where family life is not known where the horrible migrative system destroyed any idea of family life how do we reconstruct ? |
| 29 | It 's a troublesome beast , this poetic ambiguity which we are so often taught to value more highly than the explicit . |
| 30 | This is because the group recognises shareholders ' need for information more often than once a year , Mr Luckton explained . |