Example sentences of "[noun] were [vb pp] [prep] [be] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other species such as S.cerevisiae ( 6 ) , S.pombe ( 7 ) or Dictyostelium ( 8 ) , the repeated units were found to be more heterogeneous . |
| 2 | Kids were reckoned to be more sophisticated , these days . |
| 3 | Those lucky teachers who came under Basil 's guidance were helped to be more creative themselves and to bring out creativity in their children with the amazing results which we saw in the West Riding schools . |
| 4 | Bird prey completely disappeared , and laboratory mice were found to be more greatly affected than were wood mice . |
| 5 | Although this certainly coincided with attempts to breakdown the work process , matters were bound to be more complicated in such an unequivocally skilled trade . |
| 6 | If learners were encouraged to be more active in the learning process , rather than sitting in a classroom , and this active learning was based on patient care in the clinical area , would the learning be more realistic ? |
| 7 | Boys who were caned at school for smoking were found to be more likely to increase their smoking than those not caned . |
| 8 | This criticism was valid in the early days of the human capital theory but not later when attempts were made to be more specific . |
| 9 | This is reflected in the tendency to look back to a ‘ golden age ’ when these societies were thought to be more peaceful and law abiding . |
| 10 | Whereas the men , the men were taught to be more tidy erm although let me say this that er if you asked Jimmy who was an old established fitter in Brothers , where you would find a certain item , you know , in the fitting department , er he could go and get it , erm but er when the new system was invoked er everybody knew that they were stored either you know to the north of the department or to the south or whatever . |
| 11 | Despite regulations regarding design , the sport was becoming dangerous as engines were built to be more powerful and , following the abandonment of the 1903 Paris-Madrid race due to many accidents , notably to pedestrians , road racing was banned . |
| 12 | Women were found to be more likely than men to poison themselves after receiving psychotropics , and patients aged between 15 and 29 years had the highest rates . |
| 13 | Some letters were found to be more often confused with other letters and these letters were deemed to share similar features E G , B and P were often confused whereas B and X were n't so you 'd be flashing either a series sequence of letters up , some of which shared features , some of which did n't , or we thought shared features , and then we saw whether they were confused or not , and this was taken to support the idea that features were extracted from the input , or that 's how we constructed the letters or characters that we were perceiving . |
| 14 | This is in contrast to previous findings , in which cultures of dissociated anterior mesenchyme were shown to be more responsive to FGF than were cultures of posterior mesenchyme . |