Example sentences of "be in [det] [noun pl] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | The systems of animal production based on crossbred breeding females — sheep and cattle — are in many respects more similar to those of the lowlands . |
| 2 | Such open landforms are in many ways more satisfactory for study than , for example , the cultivated , boulder clay country of East Anglia , where natural forms are obscured by woods , hedges and buildings , or the tangled rain forest of the Amazon Basin . |
| 3 | Prisoners who do not of necessity have to be detained for the protection of the public are in some cases more likely to be made into decent citizens if , before completing the whole of their sentence , they are released under supervision with a liability to recall if they do not behave . |
| 4 | Though the effects in the later film ( Richard Edlund/EEG ) are in some ways more sophisticated and computer-oriented , they won nominations rather than Oscars . |
| 5 | ( They may also have generated some demands by spreading the word about regimes and rules in the Northern Ireland prison system , which are in several respects more liberal than in England . ) |
| 6 | THE Einstein Observatory survey of cosmic X-ray sources a decade ago showed that coronae were common among diverse types of star , and were in many cases more energetic than the Sun 's corona . |
| 7 | Before doing so , some longer-run historical trends need to be mentioned briefly , because implicit in much of the writing on the social creation of dependency is the belief that elderly people were in many ways more independent in a pre-welfare state age . |
| 8 | The section on Doing corrections ( page 18 ) is about what the pupil might do , but what the teacher does is in many ways more important . |
| 9 | And in a way I 'm quite glad to be outside that circuit because my existence as a an artist is in many ways more real than to be cosseted by Arts Council money . |
| 10 | This does not have to correspond with the aesthetic merit of the work as a whole : the opening of David Copperfield is in many respects more like the Class 1 sample than the Class 2 sample above . |
| 11 | A comfortable position for writing when work needs to be undertaken at close range is in some respects more difficult to achieve than it is for reading . |
| 12 | On the other hand , what older people have in common is in some ways more striking than the class differences between them . |
| 13 | The sense conveyed here of transition , of one age giving way to another , of an approaching end , a decadence , an Untergang — veering violently in its emotional response between nonchalance and terrible fear — is in some ways more disturbing than the resolutely futuristic or science fiction settings of the very talented Stefano Benni , who has been compared , not without reason , to Vonnegut ( Tani 1986 : 134–8 ) , or the sub-human dystopia created by the Sienese poet Attilio Lolini in his only novel to date , Morte sospesa ( Suspended death 1987 ) , in which a man stumbles through the aftermath of what Loloni describes as ‘ an ordinary apocalypse ’ , trying to confess to a horrible and long-forgotten crime of which no one will believe him guilty . |
| 14 | An alternative to both monism and dualism which is in some ways more enlightening than either is the approach which may fittingly be called stylistic PLURALISM . |
| 15 | But though the churches are failing , religion is in some ways more powerful than ever , if by ‘ religion ’ we mean some way for people to make sense of their lives , and particularly suffering . |
| 16 | It is interesting that a fairly ad-hoc method of transformation ( Test 5 ) is in most respects more successful than division by a prime number . |
| 17 | In 1811 most mule spinners could earn only half of their peak earnings ; even so this was in most cases more than the earnings of fully employed weavers . |
| 18 | It was a fascinating glimpse of a people who in the sixteenth century had never seen a wheel or a sea-going ship , had never faced an armoured knight on horseback or the fire power of crossbows and guns , but whose roads and lines of communication through the incredible terrain of the Andes , whose methods of agriculture by irrigation and whose whole political set-up , so close to what we know as Communism , was in some ways more advanced than that of their conquerors . |
| 19 | This break with the past was in some ways more apparent than real , for the first members of the college had all served in its predecessor . |