Example sentences of "more [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is worse is that in glass sodium and calcium are more weakly bonded to oxygen than is silicon . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Sugar and fat are also frowned on in the report because they can more easily lead to obesity than some other foods . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | some examples of a concept are more typical than others , and are more easily brought to mind . |
| 7 | Although advances in urban dialectology are certainly a by-product of his methods , his principal objectives were to use variable data as a means of elucidating processes of linguistic change and more generally to contribute to core linguistic theory ( cf. 5.2.1 ) . |
| 8 | Hunt , on the other hand , was — that year at least — a driver more utterly dedicated to victory in the Churchillian sense : he wanted the unconditional surrender of the rest of the field . |
| 9 | In the UK there are two levels of payment ( further modified for sheep only according to breed ) more arbitrarily linked to handicap levels . |
| 10 | According to recent analysis performed by the Forensic Laboratory in Rijswijk in the Netherlands , Goldreyer restored the canvas and then simply painted over the surface , in some areas using up to six layers of alkyd paint , more usually applied to furniture and floors . |
| 11 | Some assessments are much more directly related to action for improving a teacher 's teaching and assisting pupils in their learning rather than for classifying them by their level of attainment . |
| 12 | Its function is more directly linked to consumption , which it promotes by shattering the imaginary possibility over and over , repeatedly reopening the gap of desire . |
| 13 | The other tax benefits are even more clearly linked to income , with those on highest income claiming the lion 's share of their value . |
| 14 | In the classroom , on the other hand , getting and giving is more nearly related to achievement . |
| 15 | Children with difficult or disadvantaged home circumstances are more often admitted to hospital and residential care than other children . |
| 16 | It might therefore be expected that sequences corresponding to ZNF11 would also be duplicated in the apes , but not necessarily in species more distantly related to man . |
| 17 | Certainly this event postdates the mammalian radiation , since species more distantly related to man than the old world monkeys do not possess multiple copies of KOX2-related sequences . |
| 18 | True , there is a general drift through time towards more complex plants , more perfectly adapted to life away from water , but primitive species have persisted alongside the innovations . |
| 19 | One can only assume that the later , powerfully muscled and squatter ankylosaurs were more finely tuned to Earth 's gravity . |
| 20 | As women mature , their outward appearance becomes more and more strongly related to character . |
| 21 | It is , he argues , almost impossible to gain access to the nature of working-class consciousness in the past ; secondly , political practice is more strongly related to strategy and tactics than to views of society ; and thirdly overarching concepts such as culture presuppose internal coherence . |
| 22 | The firm is perhaps more strongly committed to growth than Spencer Stuart , recently taking on more new consultants and expanding into the stylish Devonshire House development opposite the Ritz Hotel in Mayfair place . |
| 23 | Although sequencing errors may occur as a result of either left or right sided lesions ( Kim , Royer , Bonstelle and Boller , 1980 ) it is generally held that left hemisphere damage more frequently leads to impairment . |
| 24 | GPs , therefore , more frequently resorted to section referrals for women with neurotic and social problems than is evident in other referrals . |
| 25 | In other exercises , the goal was to reduce the variety of link types so that visual inspection of the semantic net would more readily lead to recognition of repeating patterns . |
| 26 | These signatures are more readily attributed to source regions within the continental lithosphere , and there are strong indications that it is often the mantle lithosphere that contributes isotopically ‘ enriched ’ ( low- 143 Nd/ 144 Nd ) material . |
| 27 | The conference will seek to identify ways in which emerging technology can be more closely geared to end-user needs . |
| 28 | Behind the industrial revolution were a series of major historical transformations , including the abandonment of popular culture by the European elites after 1500 such that the concept of culture itself became more closely related to hierarchy , but was combined with a growth in literacy and other resources by means of which lower status groups might also gain access to the new high culture ( see Burke 1978 : 270 and Mukerji 1983 for pre-1800 ; Williams 1961 for post-1800 ) . |
| 29 | The time course of resolution of the hypergastrinaemia during antibacterial treatment indicates that it is more closely related to resolution of the antral gastritis than to suppression of bacterial urease activity . |
| 30 | He was trusted , according to opinion polls , rather more in Western Europe than his American counterpart , and the regime he headed was seen as more seriously committed to peace and disarmament . |