Example sentences of "more [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The process whereby rivers have been straightened and lowered to allow all riverside land to be more intensively cropped for grass and grain has often been expensive in terms of both wasted investment and loss of landscape . |
| 2 | The latter are more slowly converted into blood sugar , mainly because of the digestive processes described in the previous chapter . |
| 3 | Today , it seems , domestic development is much more effectively promoted by integration in a world economy : accepting foreign capital into the domestic economy , with production specialized for a world market ( and relying upon imports ) . |
| 4 | The advantages of Unix for multi-user systems are becoming more widely accepted in computing circles , but it should be noted that Unix versions of our specialist software packages are as yet unavailable . |
| 5 | I do n't see the support of victims of crime as a separate service provided by a small specialist agency but as something which should be much more widely accepted like sickness or bereavement , so that people can get a more sensitive and understanding response from their employers , neighbours , doctors and so on . ’ |
| 6 | Individuals usually more widely scattered over shore than Golden Plovers , and less given to manoeuvres in close flocks . |
| 7 | Gold is much more widely distributed in nature than jade . |
| 8 | Gradually the island became more widely known through picture albums , engravings and travel books . |
| 9 | The third kind of relational information , that between speaker and bystander , is more rarely encoded in bystander honorifics . |
| 10 | What is worse is that in glass sodium and calcium are more weakly bonded to oxygen than is silicon . |
| 11 | At the same time qualities of loyalty , caring and unashamed affection are highlighted as lives become ever more intimately linked by bereavement . |
| 12 | There were significant changes in the services provided , but these are more properly discussed in Chapter 4 . |
| 13 | Similarly , his principle of " concomitant variation " proposed that whatever phenomenon varies whenever another phenomenon varies , is either the cause or the effect of that phenomenon — a principle more familiarly known as correlation . |
| 14 | Such fiction , unconcise and more naturally given to carnality than wit , had been unashamedly dominated by story , and it was characteristically fast-paced and impatient of extended description , whether of scene , of motive or of mind . |
| 15 | I , I do n't know the answer to that offhand , but it 's , I 'm inclined to think that erm at least by the time of the Republic there are things that some people are more naturally predisposed towards philosophy and other people are less naturally predisposed towards philosophy . |
| 16 | In fact , for a number of reasons including changes in the market situation of managers ( in terms of narrowing pay differentials and perceived increases in job insecurity ) together with the more ready conceding of union recognition for those employed in the public sector of the economy , managerial unionism increased markedly in Western Europe during the 1970s . |
| 17 | In general , in the north , roofs slope more steeply to throw off rain and snow , windows and doorways are larger to let in available light and walls thick to keep out the cold . |
| 18 | Many couples enter into marriages with the highest intentions , and while the chemistry is most potent the intentions are more easily converted into action . |
| 19 | Sugar and fat are also frowned on in the report because they can more easily lead to obesity than some other foods . |
| 20 | It may be helpful to management to express both stock level and debtors in terms of weeks of sales , giving figures more easily related to company day-to-day operations . |
| 21 | It may be helpful to management to express both stock level and debtors in terms of weeks of sales , giving figures more easily related to company day-to-day operations . |
| 22 | It is pointed out , for example , that what is of most interest is not pay levels but living standards , and the latter can be more easily influenced through tax and benefit policies . |
| 23 | However , among the things which we tend to think of as good there are some few things which are more easily conceived in abstraction from any larger social or natural context and we will expect Moore 's method of isolation to reveal these as the main bearers of intrinsic goodness . |
| 24 | One woman in two who worked out said they were more easily aroused after sport , SHE magazine reports — and men said sex was more frequent and satisfying for them , too . |
| 25 | The implications of the requirement of coherence can be more easily demonstrated in relation to atemporal objects . |
| 26 | Following this last point it is significant that the birthrate tended throughout the nineteenth century to be highest in areas where employment opportunities for women were lowest , for it is likely that knowledge was more easily acquired by factory workers than by those in service or those who stayed at home . |
| 27 | New teaching methods were more easily discussed in business studies or applied social science than in an area like engineering with an established body of knowledge and longer traditions of teaching . |
| 28 | It is , however , a presumption that may be more easily displaced in family cases particularly those involving children where it has not in the past been usual practice to award costs against an unsuccessful party . |
| 29 | some examples of a concept are more typical than others , and are more easily brought to mind . |
| 30 | Anistreplase is given intravenously as a bolus ( 30 units ) and is therefore more easily administered outside hospital than an infusion . |