Example sentences of "more [adv] [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as many as are thus sottish , let them enjoy their own wildness and ignorance , it is sufficient for a good man that he is conscious unto himself that he is more nobly descended , better bred and born , and more skilfully taught by the purged faculties of his own mind.2 |
| 2 | Partly for historical reasons , such as the impact the Poor Law made on their memories , and partly as a result of their attitudes towards financial ‘ dependence ’ on the state , there are grounds for believing that some of these factors are more acutely felt by older people than other age groups . |
| 3 | Large scale problems or decisions are usually more effectively tackled by being systematically broken down into more manageable components . |
| 4 | For the vast majority , the historical gap between the age of the martyrs and the age of the established church was more effectively bridged by the cult of the martyrs . |
| 5 | Fortunately , these transient flora are more effectively removed by handwashing than the resident flora . |
| 6 | The British and the West Germans , however , remained convinced that the USSR would be more effectively restrained by the belief that Nato would use tactical nuclear weapons almost from the start of a war . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | The majority of courses provided students with insufficient help to understand clearly the place of English , or language , within the whole primary curriculum , that is to say how language ability should be developed in the context of the various elements of the curriculum and how in turn these can be more effectively learned by appropriate language activities . |
| 9 | Theories may also in the US be more rigorously tested by the wealth of longitudinal studies and demographic statistics . |
| 10 | They are more fundamentally divided by their disparate conceptions of the human individual — a fact which lies at the heart of their views of explanation . |
| 11 | Nine were more powerfully motivated by a wish to escape from their present job , and expressed relief over leaving it . |
| 12 | One of the unanswered questions is why , given its declared success , it has not been more widely adopted by local authorities ? |
| 13 | It was becoming more widely accepted by our management that , with the increasing sophistication of our craft and equipment and the growth in crew numbers , proper training for all crewing officers was becoming essential . |
| 14 | As pesticides became more widely used by most farmers , ‘ organic ’ farming took on a broader meaning — the crops were not sprayed with synthetic pesticides either . |
| 15 | Quarterly bills were thus more widely used by the mid-1950s , even for the relatively poor consumers . |
| 16 | Despite the considerable progress that has been made under this Government in encouraging employee share ownership , will the Minister take careful note of the recent KPMG Management Consulting report which shows ways in which the qualifying employee-share option trusts can be made more flexible and therefore likely to be more widely used by companies and available to more employees in subsequent years of Conservative government ? |
| 17 | Wonderful as many of them are , it should still be more widely stressed by doctors that the health of human beings is so often determined by their behaviour , their food and the nature of their environment . |
| 18 | At the same time qualities of loyalty , caring and unashamed affection are highlighted as lives become ever more intimately linked by bereavement . |
| 19 | Changes in awareness might , therefore be more successfully measured by the degree to which such models are revised than by the extent to which behavioural objectives are achieved . |
| 20 | The entire creative scenario is again more descriptively labelled by the Hindus as ‘ the breathing out of Brahma ’ , or in the Christian context ‘ God creating the world ’ . |
| 21 | The notion that Hollywood produced only rubbish was even more fiercely upheld by British intellectuals than by their American counterparts . |
| 22 | The city was dominated by material problems like unemployment and housing , which although related to the issue of discrimination , were more obviously tackled by campaigns that focused on the issues themselves . |
| 23 | This is often the life-attitude more obviously held by many older people who are in need of counselling support . |
| 24 | Images captured from TV , sent back from space , or more prosaically produced by a document scanner , are likely to fall into the same category . |
| 25 | Now that pre-Martin Levins are being rediscovered , as are their players ( Folk Roots ' top 30 features two re-released CDs of the Incredible String Band 's early albums ) , Goliaths are presently pushing a £500 asking price and will certainly appreciate as the woods from which they were crafted disappear and their distinct acoustic tone becomes more eagerly sought by the Washburn weary and the Takamine troubadours . |
| 26 | The fictional morphology of this suffering is more aptly suggested by the novelist and critic Akhsharumov , writing the very year Crime and Punishment appeared in hard covers , who observes that Raskolnikov 's mental torment , which is his punishment in all but its public aspect , begins with his first promptings towards the crime . |
| 27 | The commodification and rising class status of music hall song is more easily explained by referring to the penetration of culture by market relations than to the influence of musical literacy ; the increasingly extensive and homogeneous market demanded more songs more quickly than oral methods could supply . |
| 28 | In fact , where the ratio of public expenditure to National Income has continued to rise in the 1970s and 1980s , it has been more easily explained by downward deviations of trend National Income in recession , with consequent increases in spending on unemployment benefits and social services , rather than through any upward revision of government expenditure plans . |
| 29 | difficulties with after-sales service and other technical problems are more easily handled by a subsidiary than by an overseas head office and national agent ; |
| 30 | The 5000-word critical analysis , which may or may not be supported by graphical evidence , has also been criticised as being a test more of the candidate 's authorship than of his professional ability , and an exercise more easily tackled by the ex-full-time student than by the part-time candidate . |