Example sentences of "more common [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if you remember your distributions of deep sea sediments you will recall that calcium carbonate based deposits are rare in deep waters because it 's all dissolved but are more common under regions where there is a high productivity because the C C D will have been depressed . |
| 2 | Advantages : Maybe Babies are far more common under the age of three months than over , so it 's often a short-lived phase , connected with development rather than personality . |
| 3 | Lancaster and Lincoln served on this basis in Gascony in 1294 and 1298 ; and in Edward II 's reign contract armies became more common as a means of defending the northern border in the absence of the king . |
| 4 | Litter , graffiti , vandal damage , the numbers of children in care , urine and excrement pollution all became more common as the design values worsened within each variable . |
| 5 | But this traditional Chinese technique — using fine needles inserted into the patient 's skin — is becoming more common as a method of pain relief during labour in British hospitals . |
| 6 | Inflammation of the gums ( gingivitis ) is more common during pregnancy , when they become softer and more easily injured . |
| 7 | Heat can be applied in several forms and by several methods with a variety of equipment the more common of which are as follows- . |
| 8 | Proofs and Three Parables by George Steiner Faber , £5.99 READING Proofs and Three Parables , George Steiner 's latest collection of short stories ( he prefers to call them ‘ allegories of argument ’ ) , it is not difficult to see why dialectical method should be something that is more common to modern philosophy than to fiction . |
| 9 | For example , in some tasks , the more direct way of speaking that is more common to boys will be advantageous ; in others , the more tentative approach more frequently found in girls will be more appropriate . |
| 10 | As the narrator of The Prisoner of Zenda , Rassendyll is at first inclined to be deprecating about the relationships between ‘ the palace at Strelsau or the castle of Zenda and Number 305 Park Lane , W. ’ He is well aware that his brother , Lord Burlesdon , prefers to forget the misbehaviour , in 1733 , of Rudolf the Third of Ruritania and the Countess Amelia , wife of the fifth Earl of Burlesdon and twenty-second Baron Rassendyll , which resulted in the transmission of certain characteristics ( ’ long , sharp , straight noses and a quantity of dark red hair ’ as well as blue eyes rather than the dark hue more common to the Rassendylls ) in several generations of the family . |
| 11 | With respect to strategy Japanese enterprise groups tend not to adopt the conglomerate model which is more common to large firms in the United States or Britain as the locus of their strategic initiative , preferring instead the keiretsu form . |
| 12 | Not all video machines have this property but it is becoming more and more common to be able to see the picture as you run forward or back on the tape or disc . |
| 13 | Some are usually more common at a particular age . |
| 14 | THESE are more common at the lower end of the spectrum , but players are known to have received appearance fees from different sources . |
| 15 | In much of the writing on the dependent elderly , the assumption has been made that retirement has become more common at an earlier age because of a reduction in the demand for elderly workers . |
| 16 | Some months are wetter than others and thunderstorms may be more common at particular times of year . |
| 17 | Attacks were reported more commonly in boys than girls ( ratio 2:1 ) , gradually decreasing in frequency through early adult life , but becoming more common at ages 50–59 and above . |
| 18 | One was that patrimonies were not large enough to maintain several brothers in the style to which they were accustomed : perhaps because the survival of several brothers was becoming more common at this social level , noble younger brothers often had to seek their fortunes far afield , whether in an ecclesiastical or in a secular career . |
| 19 | Indeed , despite their arguments that bile had little role in the pathogenesis of oesophagitis the data of Gotley et al show that 75% of patients with gastrooesophageal reflux disease do have bile in their reflux aspirates at concentrations >30 µmol/l and that higher concentrations of bile were more common at night , at which time our gastric pH profiles show greatest alkalinity . |
| 20 | But " valuer " is much more common at this time . |
| 21 | In recent years , it has been more common for songwriting members to allow the band 's non-songwriters to share in a percentage of their songwriting royalties. otherwise , the non-songwriting members of the band would be considerably poorer than the others . |
| 22 | Greek dress became more common for men after Hadrian 's enthusiastic adoption of Greek fashions , and is often seen in early Christian art . |
| 23 | There may be evidence of a urethritis in the female , but it is more common for there to be a cervicitis . |
| 24 | One consequence of augmenting the focus registers as in SPAR is that it becomes more common for candidates to be separated only by a weak focusing preference . |
| 25 | Their only hope was a university scholarship or exhibition and , though a small number of refugees did find their way into university by this route , it was more common for those who wanted to continue their studies to attend evening classes or sign on for correspondence courses . |
| 26 | ( vi ) Rejection by the other House It is rare for one House to reject outright a Bill passed by the other , more common for it to pass the Bill with amendments . |
| 27 | It 's more and more common for people to have chickens , ducks and ponies . |
| 28 | The ceremonies emphasise a social fact : the adult prerogatives of men are more far-reaching in every culture than women 's , and consequently … it is more common for societies to take note of this period in boys than in girls . |
| 29 | For instance , it is more common for a British manager working in Europe or in the United States to be paid the local market rate . |
| 30 | However , in the more usual case of a fatal accidents inquiry it is more common for the sheriff to become quite deeply involved in the technical causes of the accident to the extent of making recommendations for preventing other accidents in the future . |