Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] more [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition these dissociation profiles appear to demonstrate that the enhanced DNase I cleavage disappears more slowly than the actual footprint . |
| 2 | Methotrexate works more quickly than mercaptopurine and azathioprine , and steroid sparing has been shown to be one of its advantages . |
| 3 | Because the winning of seats under the STV depends more often than not on the transfer of votes from one candidate to another of the same patty , it is particularly important that they should campaign unanimously . |
| 4 | Women also use trading checks more often than men . |
| 5 | Yet poor service prevails more often than not . |
| 6 | You will find that ease of emphasis comes more readily if you are not standing stiffly to attention while delivering your speech . |
| 7 | In other words , volume grows more rapidly than surface . |
| 8 | Whether you want to change your personality from night to day , from work to play or from mother to managing director , the way you wear your hair speaks more clearly than your clothes do . |
| 9 | To my mind this poem deals more sentimentally than some of Owen 's others . |
| 10 | Thus the double layer moves more slowly than the average and so yet more growth layers pile up behind it and can not pass . |
| 11 | This could be done by heating it ( although it would be difficult to avoid heating the other layers as well ) , but the layer reacts more quickly if an applied voltage between s1 and s2 rapidly increases the power density inside the material . |
| 12 | Secondly , it seems that the courts construe business sale covenants more liberally than restraints of trade in employment contracts and do so in an effort to make business sale covenants more easily enforceable : Ronbar Enterprises Ltd v Green [ 1954 ] 1 WLR 815 . |
| 13 | The choice of method of digitizing depends more often than not on the level of funding available . |
| 14 | The move is occasioned by the fact that the 1982–3 pool allocations represent a cut in income of about 9 per cent for the polytechnics and as much as 15 per cent for the colleges of higher education , the difference between them being ascribed by the DES to the fact that it has to base its view on cuts on earlier data and the polytechnics have reduced their unit costs more sharply than the colleges in interim years . |
| 15 | The beef is tender and full of flavour and , although the breed grows more slowly than the big continental animals , the deficit is adequately compensated for by much cheaper production costs in terms of food and housing ( it stays out all year round ) . |
| 16 | That the bluff succeeds more often than it should may be the fault of the unconscionably heavy legal costs which can attend even a successful defence , or the business caution of insurance companies which increasingly influence how , or whether , libel writs should be resisted . |
| 17 | A semi-double bloom , of which there are a great many , is somewhere between , but tending more towards ‘ single ’ than ‘ double ’ so that , although there may be as many as 15 petals , the flower opens more loosely than a double and reveals the anthers more readily . |
| 18 | Although children often seemed to understand and produce the unmarked adjective forms more readily than the marked ones , they did not appear to treat small , for instance , at any stage as if its meaning was identical to that of big ( see Bartlett , 1978 ; Clark , 1972 ; Eilers , Oller and Ellington , 1974 ) . |
| 19 | Correct operation of applications software relies more often than not on particular revisions of system software , program patches , hardware upgrades , firmware revisions and machine-dependent interfacing to peripherals . |
| 20 | On the other hand , this lower molecular weight is an advantage in some applications since it means that extruded sheet thermoforms more easily than cast sheet . ’ |
| 21 | History suggests very strongly that class tells more often than not at this stage of the competition , although it is certainly not unknown for a Second Division side to go all the way up to the royal box and collect the trophy . |
| 22 | You should find that the ice with salt melts more quickly because the salt helps ice to melt . |
| 23 | Today that beacon shines more strongly than at any time this century . |