Example sentences of "more [adj] that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While it is true that the longer the period of time over which the child 's language is sampled , the more representative that sample will be of the child 's underlying linguistic knowledge , in practical terms the length of any recording will be constrained by the time available for transcription and coding . |
| 2 | When the issue of the single currency was being discussed at Maastricht , did its promoters suggest that this would make more easy that enlargement , and how did my right hon. Friend respond ? |
| 3 | Why , as a senior British civil servant told me last week , is black Africa more and more convinced that Communism and not democracy , is the wave of the future ? |
| 4 | Pareto was more convinced that authority is simply a matter of fraud rather than self-justification by the elite . |
| 5 | There 's a common feeling now , only the tools are computers and the further you go the more serious that feeling seems to get . ’ |
| 6 | But it is more likely that Treasury officials are just sounding out reaction to possible measures . |
| 7 | This CCOAC makes it more likely that Person Y was involved in the things we think he was involved in but … ’ |
| 8 | It was more likely that fitzAlan did not want a distraught woman on his hands . |
| 9 | ‘ In the short run , it is possible that inflation will exceed the top of the target range during calendar 1993 , but it is more likely that inflation will remain in the 3 per cent to 4 per cent range in the absence of any unexpected shocks , ’ the report said . |
| 10 | It seems more likely that prostaglandin independent actions such as increased gastrin or acid production , or local production of toxins against epithelial cells account for this amplified impairment in mucosal defence . |
| 11 | It is perhaps more likely that Freeman has been deceived by the fact that the linguistic patterning of King Lear so under-determines how it is to be interpreted that it is compatible with his and a large number of other theories of metaphor which all equally predict it , and hence appear to explain it . |
| 12 | Small incidents may be over-reacted to in the strong anticipation of trouble , rendering it more likely that confrontation will actually occur . |
| 13 | The difference in attitudes toward welfare between the USA and Europe has been highlighted to show that trends toward contraction of municipal housing and urban programmes , when coupled with the process of deinstitutionalization , make it more likely that hospital leavers will be marginalized in a competitive environment . |
| 14 | In another 10 or 12 years , history will show that it is more likely that nation states will look after themselves to a greater extent than hitherto . |
| 15 | Whatever the applicant 's interest , the more serious the illegality , the more likely that interest is to be sufficient . |
| 16 | Thus the more time it took to program a job , the more likely that programming and operating were differentiated . |
| 17 | In this case I think it is more likely that limestone deposition started in several or many different centres and spread outwards . |
| 18 | The higher the specificity of indexing , the more likely that search outputs will show high precision . |
| 19 | Do you remember much about the the attitude of the of the old L N E R management you know , er especially during the lead-up from Labour coming to power , and it becoming more obvious that nationalization would in fact take place ? |
| 20 | If power is distributed unequally in patterned ways , it is even more obvious that material resources are spread unequally . |
| 21 | But I hope that you will think , as I do , that because this basic subject is omitted in ordinary teaching syllabuses it is all the more important that law students should pick up something about it on their own . |
| 22 | In this respect , it would seem to be more important that family relationships improve , whether or not husband and wife remain together , rather than urging parents to ‘ stick it out for the sake of the children ’ in unhappy marriages . |
| 23 | Never has it been more important that News At Ten provide a big prime-time audience . |
| 24 | Furthermore , PGE type compounds have been shown to be effective inhibitors of FMLP activated human neutrophils , making it even more unlikely that indomethacin induced inhibition of cyclo-oxygenase underlies the ability of indomethacin to attenuate FMLP induced chemiluminescence from neutrophils . |
| 25 | William Laud , who along with the king directed ecclesiastical policy throughout the 1630s , had little interest in the struggles of his beleaguered co-religionists on the continent , and was far more concerned that money be raised for the repair of St Paul 's Cathedral in London than for the relief of Calvinist refugees from the Palatinate . |
| 26 | Pilger was worried by the descriptions of Sutton 's Beechwood performance , but was more concerned that progress should be made on his list of key editorial appointments . |
| 27 | Although presented mainly as a measure of penal reform that was desirable for its own sake , officials were more sanguine that parole might lead to the hoped for reduction in the prison population than the dubious promise of the suspended sentence . |
| 28 | The dog flea acts as an intermediate host for the larvae of the common tapeworm , Dipylium caninum which makes it even more vital that flea infestations should be controlled . |
| 29 | The more philosophical might say that harnessing the power of the elements brings a certain unity with mother nature ; the more prosaic that sunlight and wind are free while diesel or petrol are not . |
| 30 | This only makes it the more significant that contempt and disdain were very far from the whole story of foreign attitudes , and where they were expressed there was normally some particular reason for it . |