Example sentences of "[adj] are more [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The outline above suggests that agnathans are a paraphyletic group ( that is , some are more closely related to jawed vertebrates than to other agnathans ) and therefore the presence of circular mouths and pouch-like gills was part of gnathostome history . |
| 2 | Some feelings are more easily dismissed than others , and some are more easily summoned up . |
| 3 | Some are more easily drawn into a regional class alliance than others . |
| 4 | There were significant changes in the services provided , but these are more properly discussed in Chapter 4 . |
| 5 | The principal criterion used in the identification of different social elements in soil erosion is the relations of production under which land is used ( and these are more carefully specified in Chapters 7 and 8 ) . |
| 6 | In reply to three direct questions ninety per cent report fragmentation , and seventy-five per cent monotony , but the percentage drops to fifty per cent in the case of time pressures : these are more often referred to spontaneously in the course of discussing housework tasks . |
| 7 | The latter are more slowly converted into blood sugar , mainly because of the digestive processes described in the previous chapter . |
| 8 | Seed raising is not a widely used method of increasing the majority of other pool plants , although one or two are more readily increased in this manner . |
| 9 | Other ‘ continuities ’ from 1945 to 1990 are more briefly stated . |