Example sentences of "[be] more [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result , shop stewards have been more closely tied to their work groups , and in several industries created spontaneous , coordinated organisations at factory level to take advantage of increased bargaining opportunities during a period of high economic activity . |
| 2 | As a result , shop stewards have been more closely tied to their work groups , and in several industries created spontaneous , coordinated organisations at factory level to take advantage of increased bargaining opportunities during a period of high economic activity . |
| 3 | But the subjects I have been concerned with recently have been more directly related to my own experience of life : the situation in Northern Ireland ; the Gulf War ; my thoughts have come closer to home . |
| 4 | The controllers , own awareness of local conditions and operational requirements ( not to speak of their pre-nationalisation experience in design and construction ) could , they thought , have been more fully harnessed to the task . |
| 5 | Important though this literature is , the main purpose of later sections is to isolate as far as is generally possible the impact of the government budget on the Lorenz curve that would otherwise have obtained , and then to consider proposals that are more closely tied to the poverty literature . |
| 6 | Toucans live in the forests of South and Central America and are more closely related to woodpeckers than to hornbills . |
| 7 | The giant predators that walked on their hind legs ( Tyrannosaurus , Allosaurus and other theropods ) share structures of the hip bones with the sauropods that show they are more closely related to them than to the rest of the dinosaurs . |
| 8 | In so doing the quality of the service can be improved by ensuring that the objectives for individual placements are more closely related to the needs of the school and that there is support for implementing the outcomes of the experience . |
| 9 | The clubmosses , which created most of the coal seams , are more closely related to ferns than they are to pine trees , and oil — from which most synthetics are obtained — is not derived from plants at all . |
| 10 | Molecular evidence has shown that the old concept of great apes ( family Pongidae ) , as distinct from humans ( family Hominidae ) , is no longer valid because the African apes and humans are more closely related to each other than any of them are to the orang-utan . |
| 11 | Another theory concerning the relationships of the Recent taxa suggests that lampreys are more closely related to gnathostomes than either is to hagfishes , implying that hagfishes are the most primitive of craniate animals ( Fig. 2B , a ) . |
| 12 | These similarities , together with several other less obvious features , suggest that cephalapsids are more closely related to gnathostomes than either is to lampreys . |
| 13 | The new features that have been discovered by re-examining Recent taxa alongside the many new fossil finds during the past 15 years lead to classifications that suggest that lampreys are more closely related to gnathostomes than either is to hagfishes . |
| 14 | The outline above suggests that agnathans are a paraphyletic group ( that is , some are more closely related to jawed vertebrates than to other agnathans ) and therefore the presence of circular mouths and pouch-like gills was part of gnathostome history . |
| 15 | B , a , This theory suggests that lampreys are more closely related to gnathostomes than to hagfishes ( agnathans are considered paraphyletic ) . |
| 16 | B , b , This classification is one of several suggesting that one or other of the fossil groups are more closely related to jawed vertebrates than they are to other agnathans . |
| 17 | POU-homeodomains are more closely related to one another than to other homeodomain proteins ( 1 ) and can interact weakly with DNA . |
| 18 | The second hand , evidently that of one of Lalande 's assistants , appears also in unique copies of two motets , Veni Creator ( revised version ) and Cantate Domino ( Psalm xcv ) ( part of the Lutz private collection in Strasbourg ) , suggesting that these copies are more closely linked to the composer 's workshop than has hitherto been suspected , despite the collection 's late date ( 1739 ) . |
| 19 | Poems are more plausibly referred to as works of art than novels ; the latter may have obviously aesthetic qualities , but have many other things in them as well . |
| 20 | Secondly , in general courts are more favourably disposed to clauses which limit liability rather than those which completely exclude it ( Cf Rasbora Ltd v JCL Marine Ltd [ 1977 ] 1 Lloyd 's Rep 645 and RW Green Ltd v Cade Bros Farm [ 1978 ] 1 Lloyd 's Rep 602 . ) |
| 21 | Digital maps are more easily adapted to a user 's needs , especially when automated cartography is combined with spatial database management within the context of a Geographical Information System ( Chapter 7 ) . |
| 22 | some examples of a concept are more typical than others , and are more easily brought to mind . |
| 23 | For it seems likely that some signifying structures are more easily articulated to the interests of one group than are some others ; similarly , that they are more easily articulated to the interests of one group than to those of another . |
| 24 | For it seems likely that some signifying structures are more easily articulated to the interests of one group than are some others ; similarly , that they are more easily articulated to the interests of one group than to those of another . |
| 25 | In the public domain they are more overtly directed to promoting social ends . |
| 26 | What is worse is that in glass sodium and calcium are more weakly bonded to oxygen than is silicon . |
| 27 | Those who , day by day , show regular habits and who are subjected to these external influences in a regular way possess body clocks that are more accurately adjusted to 24 hours than do those whose life-style is less regular ( see fig. 2.4 and pp. 97–99 , for example ) . |
| 28 | In reply to three direct questions ninety per cent report fragmentation , and seventy-five per cent monotony , but the percentage drops to fifty per cent in the case of time pressures : these are more often referred to spontaneously in the course of discussing housework tasks . |
| 29 | Children with difficult or disadvantaged home circumstances are more often admitted to hospital and residential care than other children . |
| 30 | And indeed , there are many lineages in nature that seem to show this steady improvement in adaptation ; modern horses are more beautifully fitted to running on the open plain than ancient ones ; modern monkeys more agile than their predecessors . |