Example sentences of "more [adv] [conj] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The élite squads work more intensively and aim to produce at least three prospective candidates in each weight division . |
| 2 | For on the outside , they live far more lavishly than do ‘ ordinary ’ criminals , and experience a correspondingly greater contrast between ‘ normal ’ and prison life … |
| 3 | Considerations in favour of a more flexible approach towards new building in the South East include the need to continue the momentum of the national economic recovery and the search for alternative uses of surplus farmland , but if no firm guidance on this matter is forthcoming in the near future , decentralization is likely to occur more slowly but take place over longer distances . |
| 4 | Wholemeal bread and flour can be eaten instead , as these are broken down more slowly and do not release glucose all at once . |
| 5 | The oesophageal stem cells in the proliferative zone , as a rule , proliferate more slowly and do not migrate to maintain their ‘ niche ’ in the epithelial/ mesenchyme interface whereas their progeny ( the transit amplifying cells ) divide and migrate sideways , upwards and , during inflammation , probably downwards also into deeper layers . |
| 6 | If you slow its metabolism by restricted diet , it will mature more slowly and live longer than normal : the clock of its life will slow down . |
| 7 | I think they should take things a lot more slowly and live apart , ’ she says . |
| 8 | Finally , even if a government was prepared to use positive discrimination measures more vigorously and adopt a policy of staff direction in employment , it will need to make private provision illegal if it is to succeed in equalising the geographical distribution of services . |
| 9 | Work more effectively and close harder than the average sales person . |
| 10 | Being able to select precise dates for payments allows businesses to manage their funds more effectively and maximise use of limited cash resources . |
| 11 | It would create a much stronger business , able to compete more effectively and provide a more balanced service to customers , he said . |
| 12 | To help pupils study more effectively and encourage self discipline . |
| 13 | However , it might be useful to admit the document as an aid to interpretation and publish it ( with appropriate amendments ) along with the Act or even to re-work it more fundamentally and present it as a formal preamble . |
| 14 | Some speakers , like Heseltine , come across more powerfully and capture the imagination of people a little better … ’ |
| 15 | It is clear that male birds with more complicated repertoires can intimidate rivals more successfully and/or attract mates more readily . |
| 16 | If a worker-led bid came forward and there were employees within a company who had drive , initiative and new ideas about how it could be run more successfully and provide more services at no cost to the public purse , why should they , in effect , be disqualified without their case ever having been studied by those who are supposed to study the bids ? |
| 17 | " Later that evening , as El-ahrairah was urging his rabbits to growl more fiercely and run up and down in the marshes of Kelfazin , Prince Rainbow came over the river . |
| 18 | Maybe more so than say Sandwick and I find like Rendal folk you could tell some of them even yet . |
| 19 | They take the book of Revelation more literally and believe the second coming of Christ is imminent . |
| 20 | But Basil encouraged and even found some tiny portion of my painting which could be developed though he agreed that I might copy more easily than imagine and he gave me a mounted butterfly to draw . |
| 21 | If you freeze your Brazils ( 24 hours is ample ) they not only crack more easily but separate delightfully . |
| 22 | A smaller Cabinet , mostly of non-Departmental ministers , would really be able to listen and understand more easily and hear the others arguing the matter out . |
| 23 | Through an examination of the files down to 1551 , it is intended to produce a more detailed guide to the contents of these records than is available at present , so that they may be used more easily and become better known . |
| 24 | A simple propagator will help you raise seedlings more easily and achieve more success with cuttings . |
| 25 | All other things being equal , a lighter car will accelerate harder , brake more easily and handle better than its heavier equivalent . |
| 26 | Cotton wool fulfils these criteria ; paper tissues ( which disintegrate more easily and leave " bits " ) do not . |
| 27 | As we suggest in more detail in Chapters 2 and 3 , you will be able to find materials more easily and see the best arrangement for them when you have formed a sense of what you are looking for . |
| 28 | Make connections that help your writing to flow more easily and allow your meaning to emerge more clearly . |
| 29 | It will purify evil vapours from the air , make you breathe more easily and allow more restful sleep . ’ |
| 30 | A progressive tax on the more productive regions and peasants might have been more just and welcome from the political point of view , but it was not applied for fear of removing the incentive to sow from the better-placed peasants . |