Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] more [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These measures , derived from the basic data , contrasted the two groups much more clearly than did simple counts of frequency of behaviour in the original catalogue of 120 categories . |
| 2 | And banks reckon they can distribute life products much more cheaply than big insurers , which have costly and old-fashioned national sales networks . |
| 3 | Modern publications were consulted by readers much more frequently than older material : 85% of all issues were twentieth-century publications , and 42% had been published only since 1970 . |
| 4 | The pattern recognition should also be able to identify the beginnings of words much more accurately than at present , and more investigation of the efficacy of some measure of word length would be useful . |
| 5 | In the United States , the frame rate is 15 frames per second because the domestic electricity supply pulses slightly more rapidly than in Europe . |
| 6 | Subjects woken during an REM burst have been shown by S. Molinari and David Foulkes to report highly vivid visual experiences much more frequently than when woken from periods of REM " quiescence " . |
| 7 | Yet most modern models of language , from Saussure 's onwards , give a fuller and more coherent account of it than traditional grammar ever did , and therefore offer the possibility of describing the linguistic features of texts far more exactly than was possible with the rag-bag of grammatical and metaphorical terminology on which criticism has traditionally depended . |
| 8 | And it is a point that needs to be rammed home to directors even more firmly than to auditors . |
| 9 | Unlike the personal care between spouses , these patterns of support here are highly gendered , with daughters and mothers being carers much more commonly than sons and fathers ( Bayley , 1973 ; Wilkin , 1979 ; Glendinning , 1983 ) . |
| 10 | A position which provides shelter from wind is almost more important than one which receives all the sun available ; wind is excessively drying and moisture is transpired from plants much more quickly than is realized , along with the essential oils , relatively " heavy " though they are . |
| 11 | Fluid balance is an extremely delicate indicator of health and as such , can warn of serious problems much more quickly than pulse and respiratory rates . |
| 12 | As the authors state , such letters are also of benefit to hospital clinicians , who can focus on the problems much more quickly than by scanning notes ( often untidy or illegible ) plus related correspondence and results . |
| 13 | Ralph Berger has also found that subjects woken from REM sleep report colour in their dreams far more frequently than people do when asked about their dreams during the day — even subjects who claimed never to dream in colour . |
| 14 | In order to benefit from favourable international developments , indeed in order to avoid falling victim herself to the volatile diplomacy of the period , Russia had to mobilize her resources far more effectively than she had under Peter 's predecessors . |
| 15 | More importantly , they adapted to the conditions far more effectively than Gavin Hastings ' band of teetotallers . |
| 16 | The processors themselves are linked by a mesh of point-to-point connections , which carry localised traffic between co-operating processors far more efficiently than a shared bus . |
| 17 | Children these days stay over at each other 's houses far more often than they did 20 years ago . |
| 18 | We should be using e-mail for internal communications much more widely than we do at present , in order to reduce the amount of paper we currently distribute , and to send specific messages to individuals and groups . |
| 19 | We could say that having lost these illusions in socialism we have studied economic theories much more thoroughly than Western intellectuals have done . |
| 20 | The plaintiff as an individual will feel the pressures much more keenly than the defendant , backed by the insurance company . |
| 21 | Hexagonal arrays give complex patterns , but show less of the lacy , fractal character seen above , unless we weight the pay-offs from self-interactions somewhat more heavily than from neighbours ( which is biologically plausible ) . |
| 22 | She also found no food preferences associated with shell colour ( i.e. pigmented whelks did not select mussels any more often than white ones did ) . |
| 23 | Bats , which invaded the skies even more recently than the birds , also exploit this massive source of protein . |
| 24 | In 1987 BTR launched a bid for Pilkington , the world 's leading manufacturer of flat and safety glass , which presented the arguments about conglomerate mergers even more starkly than did the Hanson bid for Imperial . |
| 25 | Not only do you get to know your friends much more intimately when you 're out on the hill , the true test of character is how they behave when they come home . |
| 26 | Mrs Hollidaye had pointed out how one could see creatures even more clearly when they were silhouetted as in a shadow cut-out . |
| 27 | The unavailability of legal aid for libel has been defended on the basis that it would bring " over the fence " disputes to court ( the poor being assumed to quarrel in crowded tenements rather more often than the rich accuse one another of cheating at cards ) but the inequity is so glaring that the argument for extending legal aid to defamation actions is difficult to resist . |
| 28 | There is substantial evidence that work groups detect and remedy mistakes much more quickly than designated ‘ inspectors ’ , saving considerable rework and scrappage . |
| 29 | It is clear that one of the reasons why the companies were prepared to invest so much in the provision of housing for their workmen was because they could influence employees living in company houses at the pit gates far more effectively than those living in a more mixed community several miles from their place of work . |
| 30 | Individual Unionists pursued the defence issues even more strongly than the leaders . |