Example sentences of "[det] [verb] they more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturally , this did n't affect her competence to teach at the University of Oxford , because until quite recently the place preferred to treat modern languages as if they were dead : this made them more respectable , more like the distant perfections of Latin and Greek . |
| 2 | The actinides are more variable in their oxidation states , and this gives them more varied colors , but again the spectra of compounds derived from a given oxidation state are likely to be very similar . |
| 3 | However , with fewer breaks pilots tend to take it for granted that they will not get a cable break , and this makes them more vulnerable when one does occur . |
| 4 | The bones gradually become thinner and more porous — that is , they have holes , and this makes them more likely to break . |
| 5 | This makes them more susceptible to the effects of Waaagh energy . |
| 6 | Pregnant women experience increased laxity of their ligaments due to increased production of the hormone relaxin , and he argues that this makes them more prone to soft tissue injury than normal . |
| 7 | This makes them more varied to look at , and in general perhaps more picturesque , but it is not easy to make them intelligible to someone who has not seen them . |
| 8 | The , the group usually has a leader or symbols which represent its aspirations like the statue of the Virgin Mary or , or Golden Churches or something to which act as representatives or icons for the aspirations , the ideals of the individual 's ego and every member of the group shares those , that leader or those icons or those ideals and consequently the group is unified by a kind of sentry petal flow of individual narcissistic libido towards the centre , towards the leader and that makes them more identifiable with each other . |