Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [vb pp] to [be] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet because the old are seen to be more ill , more often than other age groups , illness and old age have become closely associated in our minds , leading to the belief that the old have to suffer and bear an unavoidable amount of pain and discomfort . |
| 2 | Therefore , word sequences that are grammatically acceptable are considered to be more plausible than word sequences that are grammatically unacceptable . |
| 3 | Therefore , word sequences that are semantically acceptable are considered to be more plausible than word sequences that are not semantically acceptable . |
| 4 | The sandstone was quarried here at first , but later mined when this was found to be more economical than removing the ‘ overburden ’ — the rock and soil which has to be dug away in quarrying to get at the useful strata . |
| 5 | One aspect is that particular laws are made because these are thought to be more commercially acceptable than others . |
| 6 | Hence vertical perspective cues provide the only consistent and reliable information about the distance to the surface and these were found to be more effective in practice for depth and size scaling . |
| 7 | Version 5.0 is claimed to be more portable , with better application programming interfaces : ‘ commercially cleaned up ’ , is how SGI described it . |
| 8 | In BR , for example , the new chairman appointed by the transport minister in 1983 was considered to be more sympathetic than his predecessor to the government 's objective of reducing financial support for the railways . |
| 9 | Little was found to be more than 150 Ma old . |