Example sentences of "[noun] were more [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as she frowned more and more , and did not turn a page , I assumed that the gipsy 's words were more important to her than she wanted us to think . |
| 2 | It does appear that the non-enrollers were more likely to be affected by personal circumstances than the migrants . |
| 3 | Within a diocese charity schools were more likely to be found near the cathedral city than in outlying regions . |
| 4 | If editors and programme-makers and journalists were more aware of their legal rights , and more courageous in calling the lawyers ' bluff , they might find that the law is not quite the ass it sometimes appears . |
| 5 | At the same time both the Constituency Labour Parties and the Labour League of Youth were enjoying a rapid increase in membership and many of their new recruits were more interested in what was happening in Europe than in the traditional problems of unemployment and labour conditions . |
| 6 | But as you may expect , unplanned pregnancies were more common in young and single women . |
| 7 | Inevitably , unintended pregnancies were more prevalent among the same groups . |
| 8 | It was also a source of fees for more distant associates and although such relationships were more vulnerable to dynastic change , because less bound up with the territorial dominance of the lord of Middleham , some did nevertheless survive the transfer of power in 1471 . |
| 9 | It was also a source of fees for more distant associates and although such relationships were more vulnerable to dynastic change , because less bound up with the territorial dominance of the lord of Middleham , some did nevertheless survive the transfer of power in 1471 . |
| 10 | I felt that the majority of the people on the Waverley were more familiar with that form of travel . |
| 11 | Liberals saw this as evidence that the dominions were more interested in going their own way , but Unionists retorted that Canada like Britain had been led astray by a radical government and that Canada 's decision was the result of Britain 's failure to offer preference . |
| 12 | Most of the subjects were more familiar with LIBERTAS than with any version of Okapi . |
| 13 | Subjects were more tolerant of the procedure on the second occasion with a tendency towards reduced salivary and gastric contamination within the oesophagus . |
| 14 | Research conducted by NASA-Ames has shown that crews flying long sectors were more alert during approach and landing if they had been allowed to nap while cruising . |
| 15 | As the government squeezed the finances ever harder , British Rail became more efficient , and while even InterCity began by pruning 10 per cent of its mileage , at the end most of the sectors were more concerned about how to handle their increasing traffic . |
| 16 | With Sycorax , the islanders were more successful in administering the proper rites , for during the treaty negotiations that followed the battle , her eldest daughter 's husband , who had been wounded in the foot but survived , pleaded for the bodies of the few who had died inside the stockade . |
| 17 | Perhaps more significant is the fact that SEN-related roles were more prominent in Phase 1 schools than in Phase 3 , and using extra staff to cover for others was a more common use in Phase 3 than in Phase 1 . |
| 18 | No significant differences were observed in the frequency of gastrointestinal symtoms when comparing homosexual and non-homosexual patients at stage II/III , at stage IV abdominal pain and weight loss were more frequent in homosexual compared with non-homosexual patients . |
| 19 | Conservatives and right-wingers were more satisfied with the parties , Labour identifiers and left-wingers less satisfied . |
| 20 | It was also true that the reformers were more interested in what practical achievements could be made by a period of liberalisation . |
| 21 | For instance , increasing geographical and occupational mobility enabled men more easily to abandon women they had seduced , while traditional premarital sexual experiences were more precarious in the light of unstable employment possibilities . |
| 22 | The Home Office Statistical Bulletin 6/89 ( Home Office 1989c ) found black defendants were more likely to be remanded in custody than white defendants , yet a higher proportion were subsequently acquitted . |
| 23 | In fact , the defendants were more likely to be insured on an all risks policy for council employees . |
| 24 | If children were shown how to learn rather than told what to learn , the skills and processes which apply to all subject areas were more likely to be mastered . |
| 25 | Ezooli and Eve were more interested in the cafés , while Elice planned tragically which drugs she planned to get hold of . |
| 26 | One consequence was that , while Bentham was concerned with legal and constitutional reform , the Fabians were more interested in social and economic reform ; and specifically with the social control of socially created values . |
| 27 | The AMA also reported that defects from small design errors were more likely with timber frame than with traditional dwellings . |
| 28 | Further research showed that problems with conception and miscarriages were more frequent among societies where low levels of wheatgerm were consumed . |
| 29 | Booth and Rowntree were more concerned with getting the measure of poverty than with trying to devise a general theory about it . |
| 30 | The planning department 's scanning of business information could duplicate that done by the business units but it was found that the planners were more concerned with understanding the structure of industries and markets rather than with more detailed facts . |