Example sentences of "be [verb] more [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the last decade , such accolades have been heard more rarely since Mr Swinton chose a hermit 's life in the West Country and no paintings of his have come before the Selection Committee at the Royal Academy since he left London . |
| 2 | Furthermore , in the case of the Netherlands , von Beyme ( 1980 ) sees the tendency towards decentralisation in the early 1970s as a reaction to the failure of attempts to promote a central incomes policy — which had been pursued more strongly than in other countries . |
| 3 | She must have been driving more erratically than she thought for she found herself half skewed across the road . |
| 4 | The only difference is that fixed pairs are attested more often than non-fixed pairs . " |
| 5 | Nemesis had been wounded more severely than the others . |
| 6 | Dr Kenneth Kirk offered this criticism years ago , that some people are moved more easily than others by suffering and death . |
| 7 | In few periods in early Ottoman history can that need have been felt more strongly than in the years following Ankara . |
| 8 | Carbohydrate foods rich in fibre are absorbed more slowly than those from which the fibre has been stripped . |
| 9 | One has to be extremely cautious about interpreting past usage of terms like " women " , " girls " , " ladies " and " females " , but it certainly seems to be the case that " females " and " girls " — precisely the terms with either derogatory or patronizing over-tones — are used more frequently than " women " , while " ladies " is generally used if the speaker wishes either to be polite or ironic . |
| 10 | Video recordings are used more frequently than audio tape in the investigation of child abuse . |
| 11 | For instance , books are used more frequently if placed on shelves which are of convenient height ( rather than too high or too low ) , and if put on special display outside the main sequence ( see p. 155 ) . |
| 12 | The UK evidence ( Labour Research Department , 1987 ) confirms the view that outward investment by home-based manufacturing concerns has concentrated not in the Third World but in North America and western Europe ( rather than the Commonwealth ) ; it is the wish to have a stake in economies that are growing more rapidly than the UK which is the key factor in company decision-making . |
| 13 | It had been used more recently as well , during the Darul Islam revolutionary uprisings of the 1960s , when the bodies of execution victims were flung into the cave . |
| 14 | They were often made from bone and antler , although wood may have been used more often than is now apparent because it rarely survives . |
| 15 | Amongst users they are assessed more positively than traditional residential areas by non-motorised users , but not by motorists . |
| 16 | Molecules of carbon dioxide in the solid phase are packed more closely than in the liquid phase . |
| 17 | Some words occur in natural language more often than others , and these high-frequency words are recognised more readily than others , according to a number of measures . |
| 18 | In particular workers may come to the conclusion that their real wage rate is fluctuating procyclically ( this surmise may , in fact , turn out to have been erroneous , but that is another story ) : when prices are rising more rapidly than previously , workers suspect that the real wage rate has also risen . |
| 19 | Orthographically irregular words are pronounced more slowly than regular words ( Baron and Strawson , 1976 ; Underwood and Bargh , 1982 ) , indicating that they are treated differently in some way when they are read . |
| 20 | A smooth curve of accesses in which some records are updated more regularly than others . |
| 21 | But whatever its humble origins , when the new word was picked up by the newspapers in August 1898 it was quickly transformed into a term of more general notoriety , so that ‘ Hooligan ’ and ‘ Hooliganism ’ became the controlling words to describe troublesome youths who had previously been known more loosely as ‘ street arabs ’ , ‘ ruffians ’ or ‘ roughs ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ People have suggested to me that changes have been coming more rapidly than they would like but that brings me back to the feeling that people intrinsically do n't like change . |
| 23 | It is true that the carefully authentic material has to be explained more fully than it had to be for readers of Marryat 's day , who could be supposed to possess a modicum of previous knowledge of naval affairs . |
| 24 | The boy who kicks his football close to windows can be reprimanded more easily if he was one of those to draw up the rule against doing so and if he agreed on the appropriate punishment beforehand . |
| 25 | But it has to be formulated more precisely if it is not to be confused with other crimes which have the dubious distinction of sharing these aphorismic characteristics . |
| 26 | One disputed point is whether words alone can constitute an assault : the preponderance of authority is probably that mere words , unaccompanied by any threatening conduct , can not amount to an assault , but if the point of the offence is to penalize the creation of fear of imminent attack , it is difficult to see why utterances such as ‘ Get out the knives ’ or ‘ Let's hit them ’ should be regarded more indulgently than a raised hand . |
| 27 | Shortly after the Second World War the typical advice given concerning this condition was : " Acute coronary thrombosis must be regarded more seriously than most cardiac conditions , a rest in bed for weeks or months , with a minimum of 4 weeks , should be prescribed in order to assure as sound a healing of the myocardial infarct as possible . " |
| 28 | For this reason , if no other , the question of censorship in libraries has to be treated more seriously than hitherto . |
| 29 | It was also found that Asian women tended to be treated more sympathetically than African/Caribbean women . |
| 30 | Objectives will be redefined more frequently than aims , usually at annual intervals or more regularly , following evaluation of existing activities . |