Example sentences of "[vb pp] much more [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pricing restraints are treated much more harshly than non-price restraints . |
| 2 | It was true , of course , that property was dispersed much more widely than in Europe . |
| 3 | A system can be designed much more economically if it can be assumed that skilled personnel are available to control and take care of it . |
| 4 | Dividend pay-outs are much lower in Japan and Germany than in Britain and America , but this is not the only or even the main source of returns to shareholders : they receive capital gains ( indeed they prefer them in Japan , where dividends are taxed much more heavily than capital gains ) and , especially in Japan , gain business advantages through shareholdings in customers or suppliers , for instance . |
| 5 | ( see fig 7 ) This can be applied much more easily because it is not rigidly defined in the way that Burgess ' model is . |
| 6 | Since the stock of dinar assets held by households has risen much more slowly than this , the proportion of household assets held in foreign exchange accounts has steadily grown : while in 1980 this proportion was less than 40 per cent , by the end of 1986 it had reached nearly 70 per cent . |
| 7 | In the fifties and early sixties the cost of imports had risen much more slowly than prices inside the advanced countries . |
| 8 | A side-effect of the right of citizens to make foreign exchange deposits has been that , as inflation has continued and accelerated , the dinar value of these deposits has grown much more rapidly than the value of dinar assets held by households . |
| 9 | Professional qualifications are stipulated much more commonly than academic degrees . |
| 10 | The note , headed ‘ Costing Labour 's Programme ’ and dated 17 July 1989 , says : ‘ The Labour review document has been drafted much more carefully than on some earlier occasions . |
| 11 | However , it is characteristic of quantified patterns that they can conceal what lies behind them and so they can be interpreted much more deeply than in this unilinear way . |
| 12 | Branding and voucher regulations were enforced much more consistently than in earlier years . |
| 13 | These mill owners alleged that cloth woven on Lewis from mainland yarn could be sold much more cheaply than cloth made from yarn spun in Lewis . |
| 14 | The thermal properties of diamond are seen to make it an attractive substrate material for chips that get excessively hot , enabling silicon circuits to be packed much more tightly than on other substrates . |
| 15 | Clearly , the mats are deposited much more rapidly than the surrounding nannofossil ooze so that the assumptions of uniform sedimentation rates between age ‘ picks ’ , upon which most palaeoceanographic techniques rely , are invalid . |
| 16 | The DNA of retroviruses is integrated much more readily than the DNA of other viruses , but the mechanism of both forms of integration in animal and plant cells is still poorly understood . |
| 17 | Incidentally , eqn ( 3.71 ) may be derived much more simply if we make the a priori assumption that the magnetic field is constant inside the solenoid and zero outside . |
| 18 | That starting-point , in my judgment , is that costs prima facie follow the event … but may be displaced much more easily than , and in circumstances which would not apply , in other Divisions of the High Court . |
| 19 | I had been used to analysing speech — such as in a radio discussion — which ran at an average rate of 300 syllables a minute , depending of course on such variables as personality and regional accent ( for some accents are spoken much more rapidly than others ) . |
| 20 | I think er the original plan would have envisaged er a very high proportion of that work having been converted to a fixed price at this point in the programme because according to the original programme not only would the aircraft have flown but we would be entering production investment at this stage and we would there be be fairly confident about the er maturity of the design , however the programme has proceeded much more slowly than originally planned and the amount of er the price that has been converted to a fixed price is indeed quite modest er we have in fact I think only converted eight of the price packages to a fixed price er basis so far . |
| 21 | Quite aside from the inherent dangers of establishing an energy system to any significant degree reliant on highly unstable nuclear technology , the implications of the spread of nuclear power for the extension of military nuclear capability must be taken much more seriously than it has been hitherto ( SIPRI , 1979 , 1980 , 1980A ) . |
| 22 | The tesserae are still applied to a bed of mortar , but the client could expect the work in the room which was actually receiving the mosaic to be finished much more quickly than with the direct method . |
| 23 | I 'm glad it went there , because we all got a chance to see it , but the chances are it would have come to us and , and fitted much more snugly if you like . |
| 24 | The spread of Communist ideas and influence among the middle classes and among the steadily expanding constituency Labour parties , was achieved much more rapidly than in the past . |
| 25 | Parliamentary papers ( Blue Books ) relating to foreign policy were now published much more freely than ever before . |
| 26 | It is also clear from the notebooks that Marx had read much more widely than that . |