Example sentences of "more effective [subord] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tricyclic and related antidepressants were significantly more effective than the serotonin reuptake inhibitors in trials using the 17 item scale ( mean difference 1.29 , 0.28 to 2.30 ) ( fig 1 ) but the difference was not clinically important . |
| 2 | They were specialists , too , in that they favoured one type of war , that of surprise in which the dawn raid was more effective than the siege . |
| 3 | Lim 's sources of information were seen to be much more effective than the Army 's compromised intelligence gathering network , as evidenced by the fact that four of the chief rebel officers captured since the coup attempt had been tracked down and arrested by the police . |
| 4 | For example , we could , as an experiment , allocate similar child care cases randomly to different interventions to see whether one is more effective than the other . |
| 5 | Similarly , we may contrast the ‘ before and after ’ situations of alternative interventions to see whether one is more effective than the other . |
| 6 | A splinter movement that would , in time , prove greater and more effective than the Ping Tiao . |
| 7 | In the opinion of many , even more effective than the ladybird beetles are the several forms of hover or serphid flies , and this opinion is growing following the work of the Henry Doubleday Research Association ( HDRA ) into other plants that attract and encourage creatures that prey upon pests . |
| 8 | This may prove more effective if the girl playing the wife has no idea of what the scene is going to be about . |
| 9 | It is clear that this kind of INSET provision could have been much more effective if the membership of each course had been carefully targeted and hence more homogeneous ; many of the teachers who attended would have been better served by a simpler , more sharply focused presentation of recommendations specifically relevant to their own current practice . |
| 10 | In the short text the account of the Crucifixion and the meditator 's awareness of his own sin come to a climax in an outpouring of lyrical prose which has been printed as verse though it seems more effective if the surge of the rhymes and the alliterative cadences rise within the very structure of the prose like great waves to break in the bitter realisation that it is the meditator 's sin which both nails Christ to the cross and blocks the free expression of love in himself : All the internal rhyme , play on words ( ) and alliteration , which intensify the sense of the meditator 's awareness of both the creative power of God " king of " and the impotence of all his own functions , are lost in the long version which omits much of the intense self-disgust present in the short : The emphasis on Christ as the source of life and creativity is similarly highlighted in the short version in the skilful use made of rhyme , cadence and monosyllabic , strong-stressed ends of sentences to graphically convey the moment when he dies and the created cosmos fails : These effects are lost in the prosaic longer version : In both versions the meditator contemplates the appalling inversion of the created order with its lord suffering greater deprivation than the foxes and birds as he hangs " in eyre " ( 88. cf.101 ) with nowhere to lay his head — a reference to Matthew 8:20 traditionally used to emphasise the poverty of God embraced at the Incarnation . |
| 11 | Library education will be more effective if the student understands what he is doing and why he is doing it — that is , if new facts can be related to existing knowledge . |
| 12 | It is a good idea to take a week 's break every month as skin brushing , like many natural detoxification techniques , is more effective if the body does not become too accustomed to it . |
| 13 | Schools tend to be more effective when the relationship between the teachers and pupils is ‘ good ’ and when the latter are offered status and respect ; when expectations are high ; when there is an emphasis on rewarding good , rather than punishing bad , behaviour ; when there is an overall approach characteristically described as neither permissive nor authoritarian . |