Example sentences of "[be] more [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're more often thought of in the DTP world , where they are more or less mandatory . |
| 2 | The contribution of Cognitive-Behaviour Therapy ( CBT ) to this area of emotional distress is noted with the caveat that its effectiveness has been more thoroughly studied in this area than in others . |
| 3 | These singularities in regions II and III have been more thoroughly investigated by Konkowski and Helliwell ( 1989 ) . |
| 4 | They believed that this course of action was morally and politically desirable despite the fact that the manufacture of napalm did not generate much profit , that the company 's manufacturing facilities could have been more profitably employed in the manufacture of some other chemical , and that the company 's public image and recruitment activities were being damaged by the continued manufacture of napalm . |
| 5 | Moore wrote that no artist has been more universally loved by her audiences in the last 30 years . |
| 6 | It might seem unfair to pursue the Morse comparison , but it could hardly have been more strongly invited in this BBC1 thriller . |
| 7 | As a result , shop stewards have been more closely tied to their work groups , and in several industries created spontaneous , coordinated organisations at factory level to take advantage of increased bargaining opportunities during a period of high economic activity . |
| 8 | As a result , shop stewards have been more closely tied to their work groups , and in several industries created spontaneous , coordinated organisations at factory level to take advantage of increased bargaining opportunities during a period of high economic activity . |
| 9 | One of the unanswered questions is why , given its declared success , it has not been more widely adopted by local authorities ? |
| 10 | But it is of great interest , because it demonstrates a familiar mode of argumentation that has been more widely used in historical descriptions and that can be found in many places , and I shall comment on a similar case in ME below . |
| 11 | Indeed , successful labour organisation could have been more firmly based on unions which each combined many skills within a single industry , rather than of related functions in a wide range of businesses . |
| 12 | In fact , where the ratio of public expenditure to National Income has continued to rise in the 1970s and 1980s , it has been more easily explained by downward deviations of trend National Income in recession , with consequent increases in spending on unemployment benefits and social services , rather than through any upward revision of government expenditure plans . |
| 13 | Such ‘ a profound confrontation ’ has not yet occurred in Britain , perhaps in part because issues of cost and economics have been more easily concealed within a universal health care service such as the National Health Service , than they are within more market-driven systems . |
| 14 | But Titian 's dominance would have been more potently expressed by the Berlin ‘ Self-Portrait ’ , from which emanates , down to the drumming fingers , a physical and intellectual energy , and an imperious will , which make it quite clear why , in Venice , 1500–1600 is the century of Titian . |
| 15 | The reality is that only until relatively recently have appropriate techniques been more generally adopted throughout the public sector . |
| 16 | Leaving aside this argument , however , we must also recognize that scholars have sometimes been more generally influenced by the notion that written language should be uniform , even in a period in which it plainly was not uniform , and they sometimes appear to chide the scribes for spelling variably . |
| 17 | Some of its measures , such as those involving the sue of farmland for forestry or housing development , have been controversial , but measures to stimulate the growth of small rural businesses have been more generally welcomed in the countryside . |
| 18 | This book is useful but could have been of more value if it had been more clearly grounded in practice . |
| 19 | This publications audit will often turn up other interesting facts that you might have been unaware of like two departments doing exactly the same thing through different outside agencies or short runs being hammered out on page printers when they could have been more effectively produced on a photocopier or by a print shop . |
| 20 | Sales to these consumers ( which had been more effectively restrained in the difficult 1940s ) rose more rapidly than those to domestic consumers in the first ten years of nationalisation . |
| 21 | The conversation turned to the Biafran War and a controversy arose about the Biafrans ' prospects of success , which would no doubt have been more favourably presented by Aitken than was believed by the General . |
| 22 | In fact , the American constitution has been more accurately described as one of ‘ separated institutions sharing powers ’ ( Neustadt , 1976 , p. 101 ) . |
| 23 | The phenomenon is especially common in theft when a charge would have been more appropriately brought under s.15 , obtaining property by deception . |
| 24 | Perhaps on another occasion , in another mood , he would have been more sympathetically disposed towards it , but at the moment it seemed merely the repetition , however well-prepared , of a diet he knew only too well . |
| 25 | In certain regiments , however , qualifications beyond the strictly medical were demanded of the surgeons , for in Highland regiments knowledge of the Gaelic language appears to have been more seriously demanded of medical officers than of the combatant officers . |
| 26 | The possibility of cheating and some of the issues which it raises have been more formally explored by Barro and Gordon ( 1983 ) and Barro ( 1985 ) within a Phillips curve framework . |
| 27 | The air pollution that is associated with car use has been more popularly understood in recent years . |
| 28 | My background could n't really have been more deeply rooted in the whims and cultures of tight-knit Devon and Cornwall . |
| 29 | Since many associates who were not blood relations often assumed the surname but between them could muster only a limited number of Christian names , confusion was avoided by the bestowal of what we might call a nickname , or what has been more justly described as a ‘ toname ’ . |
| 30 | Certainly much of this is true ; war led to a redistribution of wealth , but Postan does not consider whether , if there had been no war , wealth would have been more constructively employed by the land-owning class . |