Example sentences of "more [adv] [conj] they [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If these twin policies are to have any effect in reducing geographical inequalities , they need to be pursued more vigorously than they have been in the past . |
| 2 | People can handle change more effectively if they keep one thing constant rather than allowing everything to change . |
| 3 | This is the language of the dictator and it is exactly why those who manage land are so concerned at the activities of the water authorities , even more so if they become commercial profit-orientated concerns . |
| 4 | A strike rate of just over one goal every two games is exceptional by any standards , even more so considering they have been scored in a struggling team . |
| 5 | This would have no impact on the fusion rate , but a tokamak can contain alpha particles more easily if they start their life travelling in the same direction as the magnetic field that contains the plasma . |
| 6 | Highlighting its features in this way will , I hope , enable us to recognise them more easily when they occur in embedded form in other writers . |
| 7 | However , if babies suffer tissue damage for whatever reason , they show fewer behavioural disturbances and recover more quickly if they receive medicine which limits the effect of injury signals . |
| 8 | Indeed it could be argued that learning from success is even more useful than learning from mistakes because , by and large , things go right more often than they go wrong . |
| 9 | Teachers have been found to attend to disruptive , inattentive ( 'off-task' ) behaviour in their classrooms three times more often than they attend to appropriate behaviour . |
| 10 | Whether the alternative candidates confuse the situation more often than they aid it can only be found from adequate testing of the system . |
| 11 | In life everyone fails more often than they succeed . |
| 12 | Sorrow and pain , on the other hand , are not at all essential ; there is no good reason for them and people seem to feel obliged to cry much more often than they laugh . |
| 13 | Erm in general people desire approval more often than they do n't , so the general tendency in conversations is for people to converge to each other in many situations . |
| 14 | A classic experiment in the U.S. by Glass and Singer 5 demonstrated that people will perform more productively if they have more control over their environment . |
| 15 | The very finest champagnes have a greater potential to age more interestingly since they start off with more . |
| 16 | Given , then , that volcanoes have a predilection for the seaside , let's now pin down more precisely where they occur . |
| 17 | Alternatively , defendants might be able to strike favourable bargains and get off more lightly than they deserve . |