Example sentences of "is more [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Known as the phenomenological approach to RE , it is the one currently in the ascendancy in many schools , whereas the confessional approach is the one which is more traditionally associated with RE . |
| 2 | In the classroom , on the other hand , getting and giving is more nearly related to achievement . |
| 3 | Surely all that is required for us to make a start is that there should be sentences whose meaning is more nearly confined to what is immediately available to us , not that there be sentences whose meaning can be completely given in terms of their assent conditions . |
| 4 | The third kind of relational information , that between speaker and bystander , is more rarely encoded in bystander honorifics . |
| 5 | The French system , though still rather broad-brush in its approach because each individual Commune is usually allocated entirely to a zone , is more closely related to natural handicap than the UK system . |
| 6 | For instance , it may be that the rise and fall of certain forms of property crime is more closely related to their profitability than to changes in economic and social structures . |
| 7 | Problems abound in measuring income distribution and although there has been a reversal in equality trends since the mid-1970s , middle-class identity in Japan is more closely related to earning middling incomes than attachment to class specific values . |
| 8 | In at least one example , the distinction between goods is more closely related to contradictions within one given set of individuals than to differences between social groups . |
| 9 | Obviously mean sea level has little to do with the height of the nip , which is more closely related to high tide level , but high tide level is in itself a variable level . |
| 10 | The beginning ( 1–10 ) is substantially based on the essay of summer 1870 , " The Dionysiac Philosophy " , although one sequence ( 5–6 is more closely related to the lectures on Sophocles ' Oedipus Rex ( also from 1870 ) and the rejected fragments " On music and words " . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The amino-terminal region of the Oct-11 protein is more closely related to Oct-2 than Oct-1 perhaps indicating a conserved function or more recent divergence of these two genes . |
| 13 | The sense of an expression is more closely connected with its actual meaning , and is roughly equivalent to the content of the expression . |
| 14 | Job-search , on this basis , is seen as ‘ more efficient , in that it is more closely aligned to employers ’ recruitment methods ' ( loc. cit . ) . |
| 15 | In this case , the O 2s AO has a much lower energy than either the O 2p z AO or the symmetric combination of H 1s AOs , and is more closely held to the oxygen core than the O 2p z AO . |
| 16 | One way in which this has been achieved is by devising larger units for education in which physical geography is more closely allied with other earth and environmental sciences as noted by Clayton ( 1980a ) . |
| 17 | They found that in the United states , Belgium , Thailand and Japan , the decline in the rate of sexual intercourse in marriage is more closely associated with the wife 's age than that of the husband . |
| 18 | There can be little doubt that attractiveness in women is more closely associated with sexuality and sexuality with youth , than is the case for men . |
| 19 | One of the er matters that er one needs to apply one 's mind to in considering whether or not this land serves a greenbelt function or not , is to look at the land and assess whether or not it is more closely associated with the village or more closely associated with the er agricultural open land beyond the village . |
| 20 | Compared with pollination , the process of seed dispersal is more closely associated with the depleting of plant materials . |
| 21 | ‘ A trusted cashier committing embezzlement , a minister who evades payment of his taxes , a teacher making sexual advances towards minors and a civil servant who accepts bribes have a fear of detection which is more closely linked with the dread of public scandal and subsequent social ruin than with apprehensions of legal punishment . ’ |
| 22 | Data security is more closely linked with data protection , being a part of the requirements of adequate data protection , but it also covers issues of computer crime , as well as ensuring that computer systems are protected from physical disasters . |
| 23 | For the 11 latitude bands considered , per capital GNP is more closely correlated with mean annual temperature than with latitude per se . |
| 24 | This plan is usually referred to as the " report " , since it is a report of the conclusion reached by the school 's library or curriculum development committee , but is more properly thought of as the proposal made by the school to the project coordinating committee in respect of the way in which it proposes that a project grant be used . |
| 25 | St Giles 's cathedral nearby is more properly known as the High Kirk , having been formally designated a cathedral for only a brief period during the reign of Charles I. It was here that Charles attempted to impose a High Anglican liturgy , virtually a Mass , upon a Presbyterian society which responded with brawls in the church and outside , still remembered as the Jenny Geddes Riots after a vegetable seller from the market who was reported to have thrown her stool at the Dean 's head . |
| 26 | Marx 's distinction between science and ideology seems crude in hindsight , but the identification of ‘ false consciousness ’ using a Marxist analysis is more properly associated with Engels and Lukács . |
| 27 | Given the huge amount of resources expended in detecting and penalising abuse , it is more widely criticised for being inefficient . |
| 28 | This is more widely known to geomorphologists by its Germanic corruption , Karst . |
| 29 | By contrast , his work is more widely appreciated on the continent and he was the subject of a major exhibition at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris in the winter of 1989–1990 . |
| 30 | Indeed , this fact is more firmly registered in the layman 's mind than any other , and if he or she were asked to give a name to some species , it would probably be either Tyrannosaurus Rex ( wrongly believed to be the known largest ) , Brontosaurus or Diplodocus , the three most often mentioned . |