Example sentences of "are [vb pp] more [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Social attitudes , influenced by widespread publicity campaigns , are hardening against the drinking driver ; and demands for tougher sentencing policies , or for new legislation on random breath tests , are heard more frequently . |
| 2 | In many cultures this leads to an asymmetry between ways of offering agreements and disagreements in talk : agreements are given more immediately , are more frequent , and are given openly , while disagreements are relatively infrequent and are hedged about with hesitations and excuses : see Pomerantz ( 1984 ) for an extended discussion . |
| 3 | We need to know much more about this , but until these ideas are developed more adequately for use in work with elders , the practitioner may have to be somewhat rough and ready in assessing the capacity of an elder to use both practical and verbal consciousness . |
| 4 | But problems begin to arise when such stylistic criteria are pressed more precisely . |
| 5 | The professional competencies required of first and second level nurses are commensurate with the level and duration of initial nurse training , and these are examined more closely in Chapter 7 when discussing changes in nursing practice generally . |
| 6 | Financial problems are examined more fully in Chapter 5 but as each individual case is different the visits suggested above should be carefully considered . |
| 7 | When dinosaurs ' eating habits and teeth and jaw mechanisms are examined more fully , one wonders why only the terminal Cretaceous/Tertiary extinctions are the subject of endless debate rather than any of the preceding extinctions . |
| 8 | A wide range of differences in attitude and life-style are associated with these objective economic differences between middle and working class , and these are examined more fully in Chapter 3 . |
| 9 | Divisional heads therefore have incentives that , compared to the U-form , are aligned more closely with corporate ( global ) goals and which discourage over-pursuit of functional ( sub-global ) goals . |
| 10 | Further interesting insights into patterns of variation emerge if the rules are formulated more abstractly , a procedure motivated by the partial conflation in the Belfast phonological system of several separate but related phonological processes ( chiefly those of backing , rounding and raising ) . |
| 11 | These are experiences which lead towards number and are explained more fully in chapters 7 and 8 , Towards Number and Apparatus , Toys and Games . |
| 12 | These concepts are explained more fully in Section 5.3 . |
| 13 | New skin cells are formed more slowly and worn-out cells , which are pushed to the surface , tend to stay around in patches . |
| 14 | If , however , the studies are pursued more widely and the research becomes deeper , the need for ready-to-hand volumes and essays will increase geometrically . |
| 15 | Many drugs are acidic or alkaline and this affects their removal in the urine ; acidic drugs are excreted more easily in the daytime and alkaline ones at night . |
| 16 | And Miss Temple , please make sure the girls ’ stockings are mended more carefully . |
| 17 | The affected fish are targeted more accurately . |
| 18 | There is a central role for specialists who can integrate the formal with the informal , who are able to influence the centres of power , and are committed more closely to the missions of the NHS than just financial reward . |
| 19 | The only difference is that fixed pairs are attested more often than non-fixed pairs . " |
| 20 | The total and individual needs of each child are considered more fully , and the assessment procedure which precedes recommendations for educational placement calls for information from medical , psychological and educational sources as well as involving parents actively in the final decision about where and how the pupil is to be educated . |
| 21 | Volcanic landforms are considered more specifically in the classic work by Cotton ( 1944 ) and in the more recent books by Ollier ( 1988 ) and Green and Short ( 1971 ) . |
| 22 | Dr Kenneth Kirk offered this criticism years ago , that some people are moved more easily than others by suffering and death . |
| 23 | Carbohydrate foods rich in fibre are absorbed more slowly than those from which the fibre has been stripped . |
| 24 | Jeans — which were Chipie 's sole product until 1975 — remain the backbone of the range , but the bright , bold colours of the shirts , sweatshirts and jackets are noticed more readily . |
| 25 | As the economy grows , basic living needs are met more easily and extra resources are available for travel , recreation , education , social care and other services that affect local authority budgets . |
| 26 | The London Boroughs derive considerable extra assessed needs from their higher population densities , particularly when the figures are made more nearly comparable ( those in parentheses ) ; moreover , density is used in several of the other expenditure needs assessments and is probably one of the major factors in providing the higher assessed needs for London , especially Inner London , in comparison with other major Metropolitan Districts . |
| 27 | In general , low potencies are used more extensively in Europe than in Britain , where the whole potency range from low to very high is available to the practitioner . |
| 28 | This means the UK 's track record in cutting infant deaths and improving life expectancy is falling behind other major countries where newer medicines are used more widely , said Dr John Griffin , director of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry . |
| 29 | For instance , books are used more frequently if placed on shelves which are of convenient height ( rather than too high or too low ) , and if put on special display outside the main sequence ( see p. 155 ) . |
| 30 | One has to be extremely cautious about interpreting past usage of terms like " women " , " girls " , " ladies " and " females " , but it certainly seems to be the case that " females " and " girls " — precisely the terms with either derogatory or patronizing over-tones — are used more frequently than " women " , while " ladies " is generally used if the speaker wishes either to be polite or ironic . |