Example sentences of "more [adj] when [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because he was just doing the same job as he 'd been doing under the private under the L N E R. Management were more conciliatory when nationalization came on . |
| 2 | It becomes even more irritating when yarn splits — as it often does — and causes problems when latching off . |
| 3 | This sort of scheme will be even more effective when credit transfer arrangements are in place , when the vocational and academic routes are intertwined , and when issues of perceived different status as between tracks are resolved . |
| 4 | This obligatory military involvement , though a burden which some clergy would willingly have evaded , was for others doubtless a proud duty or welcome excitement ; not many of those assembled actually saw battle , but their association with this medieval ‘ home guard ’ must surely have blurred the distinction between clergy and laymen , with ambiguous and some unfortunate results : more popular they may have been , but equally more vulnerable when sentiment turned , as it did , against both war and the clergy . |
| 5 | Such integration is even more important when money is limited . |
| 6 | Migration is certainly related to the family life-cycle : House ( 1965 ) discovered in the North East that migration peaked in the late twenties ( when family commitments are fewest ) ; there was then a lull for about 15 years , and migration again became more important when family ties had been reduced as children grew up . |
| 7 | Accessibility may improve when the tumour grows towards the oesophageal lumen , but matters become more complicated when growth is primarily directed in the opposite direction , towards the surface . |
| 8 | The body 's response to alterations in fluid balance varies according to the rate and volume of fluid loss , the effects being more apparent when loss is rapid or when the patient is already debilitated . |
| 9 | Then Leicester 's task was made more difficult when skipper Steve Walsh was dismissed for elbowing Carl Leaburn in an off-the-ball incident which left the Charlton striker needing treatment . |
| 10 | A question that becomes even more vital when unanimity is not available at the ICC , and a victory involving the associates must be backed by at least two thirds of the nine Test nations . |
| 11 | This was significantly more common when dysphagia was the reason for referral ( 65.9% v 35.3% , p<0.01 ) . |
| 12 | In keeping with other studies of this nature , a manometric abnormality was significantly more common when dysphagia was the reason for referral . |
| 13 | Rod-bending bites , although more common when barbel fishing than any other kind , are not the only sort of bite that these fish give . |
| 14 | He was even more irritated when Bunny told her she was to be interviewed by a reporter from the Manchester Daily News . |
| 15 | This is because electricity generation is far more efficient when demand is consistent and the fact that recharging would take place at night plus the fact that peak transport demand is generally in summer , would mean that more generating plant could operate consistently at full load thus lowering the unit cost of electricity . |
| 16 | It has to be admitted that ‘ Success more sweet when challenge is beat . ’ |
| 17 | Keynesians assume that investment expenditures are the more likely to be influenced by changes in interest rates , since raising money to purchase capital goods — perhaps through the issue of equities or through borrowing from the banks — is more attractive when interest rates are lower . |