Example sentences of "to be more [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Written language also tends to be more grammatically acceptable than spoken language . |
| 2 | One aspect is that particular laws are made because these are thought to be more commercially acceptable than others . |
| 3 | Now , my theory that I was proposing last week about preferential parental investment in sexy sons or little boys who showed phallic behaviour , is a consequence of the Trivers Willard principle , because basically what it says is that little boys who advertised , as it were , in their childhood , evidence of their own adult reproductive success by precocious sexuality towards the women of the family and aggression towards the males , might be rewarded by preferential parental investment , a Trivers Willard effect in other words , and if , when they grew up , those oedipal sexy sons were in fact more reproductively successful , then the result would be a kind of self-perpetuating cycle of parental investment in oedipal sons who then grew up to be more reproductively successful than non-oedipal sons and , and so on . |
| 4 | Statistics for average turn-length alone are liable to mislead , however , and what is likely to be more immediately conspicuous to the reader , is that in a number of scenes Anderson has by far the longest turn : in both scene one and three , for example , Anderson produces turns of over 100 words . |
| 5 | The targets set by the School Management Task Force are realistic as part of large-scale management , and the detailed approach of the SDPP is likely to be more immediately valuable to schools . |
| 6 | America , where there appear to be more grossly obese people than in Britain ( by which I mean those around double their desirable body weight , rather than just a couple of stones overweight ) , is an excellent place to observe this eating-speed phenomenon . |
| 7 | Its members devote much energy to outreach work — persuading secular Jews to be more religiously observant . |
| 8 | Executive aspects of language appear to be more clearly lateralised than receptive aspects , but even this is not the whole story . |
| 9 | allow the work of the CSSU to be more clearly definable |
| 10 | If anything , studies suggest the opposite : children and young adults with crude fantasies of aggression have been found to be more openly aggressive in their behaviour than those whose aggressive fantasies are muted or contain elements indicating that they are as concerned with the dangerous consequences of their aggression as they are with the aggression itself . |
| 11 | Except in Tanzania , English language papers tend to be more heavily weighted than local language papers . |
| 12 | In communications , given that the course deals with a variety of political relationships , disagreement between staff would have to be more overtly ideological ; the course itself is easily open to charges of left-wing bias . |
| 13 | Some of these value judgements — for example , the working classes , tend to be more physically violent than the middle classes — are woven into the fabric of our culture , but the more specific ones made about child abuse are ‘ transmitted ’ to social workers and other ‘ front-line ’ child abuse workers through a ‘ professional culture ’ of child abuse . |
| 14 | Responding to our piece on Power Now , the Santa Cruz , California company 's Pentium initiative ( CI No 2,129 ) , the Santa Cruz Operation Inc says that it is less important to re-compile the operating system than the applications software , which tends to be more numerically intensive . |
| 15 | Responding to our piece on Power Now , its Pentium initiative , in last week 's issue , The Santa Cruz Operation says that it is less important to re-compile the operating system than the applications software , which tends to be more numerically intensive . |
| 16 | Summary financial statements to be more widely available |
| 17 | Is it not possible to focus on form because you want to make your meaning clear , because you want to be more communicatively effective ? |
| 18 | In syllable timing each syllable is given about the same amount of time and therefore seems to be more distinctly pronounced than in a stress timed language . |
| 19 | The conference aims to encourage firms to be more environmentally friendly , by highlighting potential business opportunites within Scotland . |
| 20 | Characterization of particles in terms of their dynamic behaviour is thought by many to be more environmentally significant than direct measurement of particles with calipers or sieves . |
| 21 | The tariff policy therefore carried with it the last hope of consolidating the Empire and the last hope of reversing the drift into class politics ; as a pessimist , Law saw further ahead than most of his contemporaries , and events proved him to be more nearly right than they were . |
| 22 | Where the beds are vertical , horizontal or dipping inland , joint blocks can not readily break off and slip down the bedding planes : the result is a tendency for the cliffs to be more nearly vertical . |
| 23 | The dealing manager would be hovering breathing down the dealers ' necks like Big Brother , nodding approvingly if they sounded convincing , or else shouting : " You need to be more fucking aggressive " ( so the client could hear him in the background ) . |
| 24 | But there was a new broom coming into the English Faculty at this period and , although younger than Simpson , Wilson , Garrod and the rest , he appeared to be more radically reactionary . |
| 25 | Commercially recorded music proved to be more readily available . |
| 26 | Gay men attending STD clinics tend to be more sexually active than gay men in general , so these rates of infection do not apply to all gay men . |
| 27 | Variations from such ballets as Petipa 's Don Quixote , Raymonda and La Bayadère and Bournonville 's Napoli are still considered by most classical dancers to be more technically demanding than the more complex twistings and turnings of modern choreographers who mix their styles . |
| 28 | Pairs of sentences that have a coherent semantic relation have been shown to be more rapidly processed than pairs in which the relation is less distinct [ Just & carpenter , 1978 ] . |
| 29 | His clients seem to be younger than those of the other companies , and to be more seriously interested in the topic . |
| 30 | In contrast , ideologies not based on the nation-state tend to be more genuinely transnational in scope . |