Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] more [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mat-forming plants like pinks seem to develop more freely than in conventional borders and , since there is gravel between them , you can walk among your treasures without having to tread on bare soil . |
| 2 | Of course , if the linker needle is bent the same applies , but machine needles get bent more frequently than the linker needle , the weighting needs to be correct . |
| 3 | Try drinking more slowly so you can skip some rounds . |
| 4 | Some children become institutionalised more quickly than others , and she still had a bit of fire left in her when I went to the orphanage for her . |
| 5 | Glass and enamel tesserae , for , are uncommon in Britain — although they do occur more frequently than is sometimes suggested ( Boon 1974 , 345 ; Neal 1976 , 243 ) . |
| 6 | Left to themselves , without adult interference , groups of children tend to become more rather than less aggressive as time goes by . |
| 7 | ‘ I have persecuted more furiously than Paul … . |
| 8 | But the experts need to know more precisely when and by whom the bodies of Uffington were buried . |
| 9 | I believe that the linkages to the meteorological stations have operated more effectively than hitherto . |
| 10 | ‘ I need to look more closely before we carry him back with us . ’ |
| 11 | The idea that the rich world faces a rubbish crisis has been aggravated by the fact that in some countries new landfills have opened more slowly than old ones have closed . |
| 12 | Sales of OS/2 have gone more slowly than some at Microsoft had hoped . |
| 13 | But that is because love is a social emotion , not a biological one : young women do n't love sagging bellies and grey hair , they love money and power which men have to offer more often than women do . |