Example sentences of "[is] more [adj] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one is more anxious that the penalties should be apt for the crime than those most immediately affected by prison disorder . |
| 2 | There was , however , a senior general , Catroux , representing the Free French in Egypt at the time , and it is more probable that it was he who interviewed Stirling . |
| 3 | In the Tønder example , however , the vugs occur in the subsurface on top of a salt dome , with thick units of halite above and below , and it is more probable that they were formed by the same late-leaching process that was responsible for the intercrystalline porosity ( Clark 1980a ) . |
| 4 | If there is enough to suggest that it is more probable that the offence took place , that is enough for the action that was taken by all the agencies involved in Orkney . |
| 5 | It is more probable that the managers will seek to pursue their own goals rather than subject their decisions to the norm of profit-maximization . |
| 6 | Thereafter he may have been engaged in wholesale dealing in corn and wool , though it is more probable that he continued to lend money under the guise of advancing money against future payment of commodities . |
| 7 | At a later time , it is more probable that the system will be in a disordered state than in an ordered one because there are more disordered states . |
| 8 | It is more probable that in most cases , the relative contributions to the final research of student and supervisor could not easily be separated . |
| 9 | It is more probable that they were cited soon after deposit , but that the coverage of SCI at this time did not extend to those journals in which the citations occurred . |
| 10 | It is more probable that the whole matter lies in the discretion of the court as to the grant of an injunction ( or damages in lieu ) . |
| 11 | There appear to be no important differences in performance on intelligence tests in the working age range and as the influence of physical effort in work becomes less important so it is more feasible that jobs can be performed equally well by either sex . |
| 12 | If their view of God is what they say , then it is more surprising that they did not reject it much earlier . |
| 13 | It is more surprising that Bourgchier accepted the role of go-between . |
| 14 | Both these relationships are of course what might have been predicted a priori , in fact it is more surprising that they did not appear in the Groeger and Chapman study than that they do in this one . |
| 15 | It is more surprising that Bourgchier accepted the role of go-between . |
| 16 | If you have chosen to live in a home that is more expensive that the Department would normally pay and your circumstances change , or the people or the organisation helping to fund your care can no longer help , we will need to reassess your needs . |
| 17 | Surely it is more essential that she should be well educated , as research has shown the mother 's education to be more important to the child 's own later achievement than the father 's . |
| 18 | As a strongly international business it is more appropriate that it appears beside the Big Four rather than with the British consultancies . |
| 19 | In broad psychological terms , it can be said that the male is achievement-orientated , directing his efforts towards a specific goal , whereas the woman is more concerned that the differing elements in her life should be in harmonious relation to one another , and that the circle of light in which she is centred includes them all . |
| 20 | She knows there is nothing that is more attractive that the promise of sexuality waiting to bloom , and so if this is what is responsible for fame , Kylie wants to keep her pre-puberty looks . ’ |
| 21 | Perhaps in her company you fade psychologically — you are so used to believing that she is more attractive that you cease to believe in your own abilities . |
| 22 | Such an amendment might well be needed , but it is more important that we get the European eco-labelling scheme up and running . |
| 23 | It is more important that Conservative Members read Labour party policy documents , because they might learn something . |
| 24 | Our reason for driving on the right in America and on the left in Britain is just our expectation that this is what others will do , coupled with our further belief that it is more important that there be a common rule than that it be one rather than the other . |
| 25 | On game farms , therapy with levamisole in the drinking water has proved useful , but it is more important that pens should be moved regularly to prevent the accumulation of larvae . |
| 26 | ‘ It is more important that goals are spread around , ’ he said . |
| 27 | It is more remarkable that the religious houses survived so well than that they were faced with economic problems , and if they were sometimes regarded as grasping landlords , they had little option to be anything else . |
| 28 | But on the contrary , this world of ‘ it was rumoured ’ and ‘ that may well have been so ’ followed at once by ‘ it is more likely that nothing of the sort happened ’ — again in the opening paragraphs — is as exhilarating as the challenge of life 's opacities to a healthy curiosity . |
| 29 | But it is more likely that Treasury officials are just sounding out reaction to possible measures . |
| 30 | But if the British Barlow Clowes operation had been within the licensing net , it is more likely that the Department of Trade would have found out at a much earlier stage that Mr Peter Clowes was running a parallel offshore operation — first in Jersey and then in Gibraltar . |