Example sentences of "more [adv] [verb] by [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 ) .
2 At the same time qualities of loyalty , caring and unashamed affection are highlighted as lives become ever more intimately linked by bereavement .
3 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 .
4 In north west Scotland sailing and climbing are ideal combinations as much of the wilder country can be more quickly reached by sea .
5 The distinction is more clearly seen by analogy with breathing and eating : both are instinctive — yet , whilst nobody shows us how to breathe , learning to take sustenance is more problematic .
6 This is made crystal clear in a somewhat laboured exposition in a book by Preece and Maier published in 1889 : Let us suppose the two microphonic transmitters are placed on the stage at T and T 1 , and these transmitters separately connected by two distinct wires to two telephone receivers , R and R 1 , which are applied to both ears to hear the actor , whom we will suppose to be placed at A. It is easy to understand that , the distance of this actor from transmitter T being less than that from transmitter T 1 , his song will be more distinctly reproduced by transmitter T than by T 1 , and the stronger impression will be produced on the left ear .
7 I might agree in terms of lowland farming where farms are more often controlled by investment groups than by single families , but hill farming has always been , and still is , a hard and often heart-breaking as well as back-breaking job .
8 The neighbourhood ( for which physical limits may be assigned ) acted as a base for a group but , often , these groups could be more accurately defined by housing and class interests than purely by locality .
9 Drama , inevitably , is more culturally specialized by language , but in many of its other elements of movement and scene it is widely and inherently accessible , as is clear in mime and was very evident in the silent film .
10 Although this means that student groups are more evenly balanced by gender than was the case with earlier generations of students , men still outnumber women in so-called " traditional " male subjects such as maths , engineering and applied science .
11 Stephen Gould , in his excellent essay on The Pan da " s Thumb , has made the point that evolution can be more strongly supported by evidence of telling imperfections than by evidence of perfection .
12 Blood pressure in children and adults is more strongly predicted by thinness at birth and a high ratio of placental weight to birth weight than by birth weight alone .
13 Terror , counter-terror , torture , and the absolute necessity of violence ( later much more clumsily explored by Leone in A Fistful Of Dynamite ) are relentlessly portrayed , all to Ennio Morricone 's least flowery score ever .
14 The evidence for an association between personality characteristics and an interest in science has been more fully reviewed by Head ( 1979 ) .
15 A woman 's liver is also more readily damaged by alcohol than a man 's .
16 This example illustrates a general point , namely that the more heavily regulated by statute a government activity is , the more likely it is to be amenable to judicial review .
17 The period of greater stability — the ‘ mid-Victorian equipoise ’ which followed has been somewhat more adequately mapped by research than the upheavals that went before ( see , for example , Bailey 1978 ; 1986a ; Brat ton 1986 ; D. Russell 1987 ; Scott 1989 ) .
18 Even magistrates , whose sentencing powers are more closely confined by law , enjoy a considerable degree of discretion within those upper limits .
19 Tachycardia recognition is now more commonly achieved by heart rate analysis alone , with either separate epicardial , extrapericardial , or endocardial sensing electrodes .
20 Probably more so in fact , for all organisms are more seriously threatened by competition from their own species than from others .
21 But Trawsfynydd was more seriously affected by radiation , which gradually makes welds brittle in the steel pressure vessel holding the reactor 's heart .
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