Example sentences of "is more [adj] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Previous work has used this characteristic to suggest a sub-lithospheric component that is more akin to MORB than to OIB , whereas the Os isotope data seem to favour an OIB-like component . |
| 2 | I , I think to be er , I think it is more correct to say that there was an outline planning application for an additional dwelling on that site , er in addition to the bungalow that is there , and I I think that is the situation , and all subsequent planning applications have been refused . |
| 3 | Nothing is more nourishing to doubt than hazy mists of vagueness ; but clear thinking disperses them and leaves a clear-cut choice either to believe or to disbelieve . |
| 4 | Therefore , since the cost reduction has the same effect as the price reduction but has other effects in addition , it is more worthwhile to strive after , if it is equally easy to obtain . " |
| 5 | It is more usual to wash or dip the cheeses in liquid . |
| 6 | The truth is that I was suffering from insomnia : a full stomach is more conducive to sleep than is an empty one . |
| 7 | This fuel is more expensive to manufacture but could compete in the domestic market where there is a shortage of anthracite . |
| 8 | The Paasche index is more expensive to compute than the Laspeyres index because the weights need to be re-estimated every period . |
| 9 | ‘ The question of whether a pleasure flight … could , or should , be removed from the definition of ‘ public transport ’ is more complex to review than the medical situation of over age sixty pilots … |
| 10 | It is more accurate to say that the DUP fielded thirty-nine candidates of whom twenty-one won seats ( but again there is disagreement with David Calvert claiming only thirteen wins for the DUP ) . |
| 11 | It has more frequently been suggested that dilute sources will promote visits to many nowers and thus out-crossing , though it is difficult to see how such a mechanism could arise , and perhaps it is more satisfactory to surmise that visits by a pollen-dusted vector to several flowers on one plant are promoted , leading to cross fertilization of more . |
| 12 | The former is mainly concerned with the achievement of goals , not overly concerned about opposition and the costs of disturbance ; the latter is more concerned to represent and respond to diverse interests and is willing to arrive at compromises , if necessary sacrificing policy goals . |
| 13 | In this sort of book you may well find that the pattern of how-will-he-get-out-of-this is more convenient to use while underneath you get on with the purpose of your story . |
| 14 | For example , it is more convenient to believe that your behaviour ‘ just happens ’ because this absolves you from having the responsibilities that accompany choice . |
| 15 | Another consideration is that monitors working in interlaced mode produce an image that generally is more prone to flicker than a non-interlaced display of the same screen resolution . |
| 16 | But it is more plausible to suppose that the meaning of unemployment will vary according to a number of factors , e.g. its duration , social assessments of blame , previous experience of steady employment , perception of future prospects , comparison with other groups , etc . |
| 17 | Colour is more important to fish than to mammals and birds , and in fish it is often highly variable . |
| 18 | In fact , there is no reason to suppose that a household with four members is more able to pay than one with a single person , especially if three of the four are dependants . |
| 19 | The cost of hot water is reduced in relation to the capital expenditure which can be undertaken , so that an efficient boiler system is more costly to install than a simple immersion heater , but cheaper to run . |
| 20 | Second , the community charge is more costly to collect than rates ( Blair 1988b ; Travers 1989b:22 — 4 ) . |
| 21 | That the arbitrageur can lend money at the riskless rate of interest appears sensible , but it is more questionable to assume that he or she can borrow at the riskless rate ( although if the marginal arbitrageur is a large financial institution , the assumption may be reasonable ) . |
| 22 | We have already observed that it is more difficult to speechread unless there is enough space between you and the speaker — eyes can not possibly focus on the whole face if it is only six inches away . |
| 23 | The completeness of the 1989–90 material is more difficult to evaluate because the drugs in this period were available over the counter . |
| 24 | Typhoid is more difficult to eliminate because symptomless ‘ carriers ’ can transmit the disease to others , although most of the few cases today are imported ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 25 | The combination of town , gown and countryside mean that the result here is more difficult to call because of the much practised ploy of tactical voting . |
| 26 | If the domain of a criterion statement is broad the representativeness of assessment tasks is more difficult to arrange and criterion performance may thereby be ambivalent . |
| 27 | Only now it is more difficult to spot because they have taken away the visitors ' platform and the view through the most celebrated new gap in the Berlin Wall is often obscured by the steady stream of tramping East Berliners and their Trabant cars . |
| 28 | Fragment A is more difficult to analyse as the evidence is incomplete and the habit of keeping to a set rate of progress may not have evolved at the A stage of composition ; but it could have been completed between June 1758 and April 1759 , in a shorter or longer time depending on whether he wrote one verse or three each day . |
| 29 | Perhaps their essence is more difficult to grasp because they are perceived by customers in entirely different roles , depending on the customer — for example , as friend , wine expert or simple emissary of the kitchen . |
| 30 | This charge against Latimer was almost certainly baseless , though it is more difficult to assess whether he had made undue profits for himself out of the campaign in Brittany . |