Example sentences of "[be] more [adv] [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | These singularities in regions II and III have been more thoroughly investigated by Konkowski and Helliwell ( 1989 ) . |
| 2 | Moore wrote that no artist has been more universally loved by her audiences in the last 30 years . |
| 3 | One of the unanswered questions is why , given its declared success , it has not been more widely adopted by local authorities ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In some areas , such as domestic ( especially space heating ) sales ( as we shall see in Chapter 7 ) , the economists ' criticism that the demand could have been more efficiently met by other fuels was generally convincing , but they greatly exaggerated the extent to which electricity investment was dominated by the need to meet this demand . |
| 11 | I said that I felt , uncomfortably , that the poor little heroine of that book had been more cruelly betrayed by her author than by her heartless elders . |
| 12 | The evidence for an association between personality characteristics and an interest in science has been more fully reviewed by Head ( 1979 ) . |
| 13 | But , without dismissing the claims of other actors such as transnational corporations or revolutionary groups , it will conclude that they do not affect questions about explaining and understanding , which are more clearly raised by considering better established theories that address the state . |
| 14 | Even magistrates , whose sentencing powers are more closely confined by law , enjoy a considerable degree of discretion within those upper limits . |
| 15 | Partly for historical reasons , such as the impact the Poor Law made on their memories , and partly as a result of their attitudes towards financial ‘ dependence ’ on the state , there are grounds for believing that some of these factors are more acutely felt by older people than other age groups . |
| 16 | They are more fundamentally divided by their disparate conceptions of the human individual — a fact which lies at the heart of their views of explanation . |
| 17 | Generally gram positive types are more easily affected by disinfectants than gram negative types . |
| 18 | difficulties with after-sales service and other technical problems are more easily handled by a subsidiary than by an overseas head office and national agent ; |
| 19 | Setting the scene and capturing attention are more easily assisted by a computer program than the other aims . |
| 20 | If , for instance , tax allowances and exemptions are more easily acquired by higher-income groups ( as with mortgage repayments , etc. ) then , despite a rising marginal rate , the individual may pay a smaller proportion of a higher total income in tax . |
| 21 | Divers in a bell are more easily controlled by the supervisor . |
| 22 | In the workshop , theory and practice are more easily linked by displaying and making available material and practical work , side by side , each depending upon the other for full understanding . |
| 23 | The difficulty for conveyancers is that they are not generally " the first port of call " and therefore , lose out to those who are more immediately associated by the general public as dealing in this area . |
| 24 | Fortunately , these transient flora are more effectively removed by handwashing than the resident flora . |
| 25 | ‘ It will now be necessary to observe that animals are more frequently attacked by epizootic , endemic and contagious diseases than the human species because we are protected from these casualties by our Houses , Clothing and manner of Living , in short by all the precautions that reason dictates , whilst animals are deprived of all these recourses and are constantly exposed to dangers which we avoid by the above-mentioned precautions , besides their food and drink is constantly the same , which often is the cause of a fermentation in their blood which generally terminates in stubborn and fatal diseases . |
| 26 | It is often agreed as a balance against the more controversial " forced sale " provisions ( see below ) which are more frequently requested by investors . |
| 27 | Their mineralogy and sequence of development are more accurately followed by using CL than by transmitted light alone ( see above ) . |
| 28 | I might agree in terms of lowland farming where farms are more often controlled by investment groups than by single families , but hill farming has always been , and still is , a hard and often heart-breaking as well as back-breaking job . |
| 29 | Although this means that student groups are more evenly balanced by gender than was the case with earlier generations of students , men still outnumber women in so-called " traditional " male subjects such as maths , engineering and applied science . |
| 30 | Defining sufficient interest is relatively easy where one or more persons are more seriously affected by a decision than people generally . |