Example sentences of "are [adv] more [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Checklists are seldom employed to assess phonological skills , but are much more frequently applied to grammatical and functional language abilities which may be relatively difficult to elicit during a formal assessment session . |
| 2 | This is by far the commonest cavity for lasers in general , but has major drawbacks from a theoretical standpoint : the standing-wave pattern greatly complicates the atomic response and can also lead to multimode operation , and time and space are much more intimately mixed in the feedback process . |
| 3 | Some assessments are much more directly related to action for improving a teacher 's teaching and assisting pupils in their learning rather than for classifying them by their level of attainment . |
| 4 | The potential growth areas mentioned by Herb Nahapiet of repairs , maintenance and refurbishment , and partnering and joint ventures , are much more deeply embedded in the lives of people than were the products of the socially aggressive development style of the last quarter of a century . |
| 5 | The demonstrative pronouns are perhaps more clearly organized in a straightforward proximal-distal dimension , whereby this can mean " the object in a pragmatically given area close to the speaker 's location at CT " , and that " the object beyond the pragmatically given area close to the speaker 's location at CT " ( Lyons ( 1977a : 647 ) suggests the derivative glosses " the one here " , " the one there " , respectively ) . |
| 6 | These are not so much part of the ‘ inner voice ’ : in Cohen 's ( 1982 ) terms , they are perhaps more readily interpreted as the ‘ voice to the outside world ’ . |
| 7 | For the Christian , it is natural that God should become a person at the Incarnation rather than a dog or a stone , not necessarily because persons are somehow more technically advanced on a scale of being , but because they display the qualities that are most to be valued . |
| 8 | Large scale problems or decisions are usually more effectively tackled by being systematically broken down into more manageable components . |
| 9 | As the figures on page 59 show , bank accounts are still more commonly held by people in higher socio-economic groups than those in lower ones . |
| 10 | The five shading symbols are also more equally spread over the map area . |
| 11 | These housing criteria are far more closely associated with social class than the official housing density standards . |
| 12 | Such calls have be.en made by Hudson ( 1981 ) for conservation , although they are far more frequently made by agricultural economists and agronomists who are concerned with interactive research by farmers and research stations ( Biggs 1981 ) . |
| 13 | In the non-monetarized society , the individual is likely to be tied to activities which are far more tightly constrained by the necessities of daily life . |
| 14 | Fifth , the Thatcher Governments have made major changes to owner-occupation and share ownership and this has resulted in many small wealth holders believing that their interests are now more closely allied with the rich , to the exclusion of people on low incomes . |
| 15 | The other tax benefits are even more clearly linked to income , with those on highest income claiming the lion 's share of their value . |
| 16 | The kind of norms we are concerned with here are sometimes called community norms in order to distinguish them from the superordinate norms that I have mentioned , and I shall suggest below that a major difference between superordinate and community norms is that , whereas ‘ standard ’ norms are uniform , community norms are sometimes more aptly described as variable norms . |
| 17 | Labour-intensive crops like maize and cotton are sometimes more efficiently produced by humble farmers with lots of children than by rich ones with smart machines . |