Example sentences of "more [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 For instance , observer bias would have occurred in our study if the endoscopist has looked more intensely for a hiatal hernia after noting that oesophagitis was present .
2 ‘ I suppose , ’ said Suvarov , paying no attention to her rudeness or the incipient hysteria in her voice , ‘ because it was so important … not just fighting it , but being part of it , doing one 's best and living more intensely over a longer time than one had before . ’
3 Power stations can be made cleaner and more efficient , so that they use less fossil fuel , particularly high carbon coal ; energy can be used more economically by the consumer ; and there is nuclear energy ( the subject of the following chapter ) , which whatever else it is capable of doing , does not produce carbon dioxide .
4 You would reach your market more economically in a women 's magazine where the percentage of readers who knit is known to be high .
5 Mother Bombie , too , fixed a glittering eye more keenly on the young woman .
6 Individuals have to search more intensively for the most favourably priced goods , and firms have to determine their new prices ( not easy when production costs are continually changing ) and then disseminate the information .
7 Hence , more intensively in the 1900s , MOHs and such voluntary organizations as the Women 's Co-operative Guild and the Infant Health Society gave talks to women , issued leaflets , and established schools to train mothers in childcare and domestic skills .
8 The term ivory has also been applied more loosely to a number of other substances .
9 To understand the reasons behind that agreement we must look more loosely at the context in which it was made .
10 What the right hon. and learned Gentleman said then has , over time , come to be seen yet more acutely as a cogent and sensible analysis of the needs of Scotland as we approach the end of the century .
11 The Navigator shuddered and focused himself more acutely on the immaterium without , alert for maelstroms .
12 Fertility increases in Britain occurred in a modest way in the later 1930s and much more strikingly between the mid-1950s and 1960s .
13 When working wet-in-wet I found the rounds especially useful for adding in detailed lines by carefully dragging the brush quickly across the painting , and for fusing lines by dragging the wet colour more slowly through the painting surface .
14 Is he walking even more slowly up the hill from the station this evening , even more wearily along the lane ?
15 Only his finger moved a little more slowly along the line .
16 Then we walked more slowly into the church .
17 Overall the rates are still coming down — but much more slowly in the late 1980s than in the decades before .
18 In the UK , Japan and the US there have been a spate of deregulatory initiatives taken by government , and European governments are also moving more slowly in the same direction .
19 BUOYED by Denmark 's decisive Yes to Maastricht , three other Nordic governments are knocking all the more vigorously on the door of the European Community .
20 Had the Plowden Report received more support from politicians , academics and educationalists and had its recommendations been applied rather more vigorously across the country , I think our primary schools would today be much less open to criticism .
21 The reason such analysis has not proceeded more vigorously in the past is that evolutionary biologists have virtually ignored developmental psychology , now a vast field in its own right , while psychologists for their part have not appreciated the great potential of evolutionary theory for their own studies .
22 For them , negotiation , in the form of bargaining , can proceed more effectively through a process of bluff and ambush , which is inimical to the demands of justice .
23 R&D consortia which include films that produce different products using the same basic technological knowledge may also be able to segment user markets , price discriminating more effectively as a group than they are able to do when they act independently and earning a higher return on their R&D activities .
24 The briefing pack accompanying Working for patients ( DoH , 1989h ) claims that at ‘ Regional and district level planning will be able to respond more effectively to the health needs of the population rather than being tied to details of the operational delivery of services ’ .
25 initiate dialogue between church communicators and the denominational social justice issues committees , to help them communicate their activities more effectively to the churches and to the general public ;
26 The Report of HM Inspectorate concludes that the need is now paramount for careful planning to match the provision of courses more effectively to the needs of students and employers .
27 Standards will represent a new way of describing performance at work and will enable organisations to identify and match peoples ' needs more effectively to the requirements of industry in a constantly changing world .
28 One of the major objectives is to contribute to a better understanding of how the scientific constructs used to represent the objectives and practices of nature conservation in the United Kingdom can be communicated more effectively to the general public .
29 Since higher education is currently exam oriented and likely to remain so even under SCOTCATS it is recommended that SCOTVEC and institutions of higher education jointly undertake an urgent review of modular certificates in order to discover ways in which these could be made to relate more effectively to the demands of full time higher education .
30 By engaging in some instances in dialogue directly with local and regional authorities and by-passing national governments , the Commission hoped to be able to co-ordinate the allocation of the Structural Funds and direct aid more effectively to the problem areas , thereby also implicitly weakening the influence of national government upon the use of EC funding .
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