Example sentences of "is more [adv] [vb pp] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clarence 's dream is more closely described than any in Julius Caesar , and is a highly believable nightmare of drowning . |
| 2 | The C & AG 's role is more properly understood if his full title is given : ‘ The Comptroller General of the Receipt and Issue of Her Majesty 's Exchequer and Auditor General of Public Accounts ’ . |
| 3 | Usually , however , the production area is more widely scattered and the exact relationship with a given small town is harder to define . |
| 4 | This appears to have been known locally as Cinderford Mill , although it is more widely remembered as Brights Corn Mill , the last miller being Samuel Bright . |
| 5 | Shingle is more widely distributed than sand , there being shingle islands in Chichester and Pagham Harbours and shingle beaches along much of the rest of the coast . |
| 6 | Ardmore 's runway is more generously dimensioned and better levelled than North Shore 's but North Shore is perfectly adequate too . |
| 7 | This boot is slightly more flexible than the K-SB3 L GTX , is more generously sized and has a distinct curve to its sole . |
| 8 | It is , in fact , relatively obvious and uncontentious to argue that in some societies or sub-cultures the distinction between ‘ objective ’ and ‘ context-dependent ’ is more consciously drawn and given more weight than in others ( cf. |
| 9 | Westphalian ham is darker in colour than Parma and Bayonne ; it is more heavily smoked than Bayonne and is aged before selling . |
| 10 | In practice , the blocks world is more conveniently described if we introduce a second predicate : clear(x) which , by definition , means Ay * on ( y , x ) . |
| 11 | Composers often construct their basic phrases from several different cells , in order to have more variety of ‘ material ’ and produce music which is more subtly evolved and richly diversified . |
| 12 | The rail network supported by the PTE is smaller than in Manchester with 88 route miles ( 142 route km ) and 74 stations , but it is more intensively used and largely electrified . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , cut the steak into slivers , ½&in wide by 1&in , as thinly as possible — this is more easily done if the meat is put into the freezer about 30 minutes before being cut . |
| 14 | This is more easily done when landing in an unfamiliar place , particularly if it is in a hilly area and means landing on an uphill slope . |
| 15 | The exposition is more easily understood if broken down into a number of stages . |
| 16 | In Chapter 3 I will describe in detail the culture created to deal with these ‘ street-visible ’ offenders in a cell-block situation , but suggest the inertia surrounding the whole problem is more easily understood when we consider the social history of such illness ( Foucault 1967 ) , and see how the executive has always allocated the control of such ‘ drunken dossers ’ to the police . |
| 17 | This proposition is more easily understood when one realizes that Richards 's general theory of value is a materialist one . |
| 18 | Survival time from point of diagnosis is more easily determined but less useful . |
| 19 | Male Sterilisation is technically simpler than female sterilisation because the vas deferens is more easily reached than the fallopian tube . |
| 20 | In non-literate society … the cultural tradition functions as a series of interlocking face-to-face conversations in which the very conditions of transmission operate to favour consistency between past and present , and to make criticism — the articulation of inconsistency — less likely to occur ; and if it does , the inconsistency makes a less permanent impact , and it is more easily adjusted or forgotten . |
| 21 | The net amount of work which occurs is often estimated by observing the frequency of an externally applied effective stress ( such as a weather- or hydrologically-related stress ) which is more easily measured or is accessible from records . |
| 22 | In this way risks and costs are reduced , the performance of trainees is more easily measured and the presented situation is precisely controlled by the trainers . |
| 23 | It is desirable therefore to devise an indexing system , by which words can be related to some other data structure that is more easily processed and stored . |
| 24 | The large amount of oil still used in power stations is more easily reduced since many alternatives are possible . |
| 25 | But there are good reasons for a principled limitation to linguistic contexts : first , the relation between a lexical item and extralinguistic contexts is often crucially mediated by the purely linguistic contexts ( consider the possible relations between horse and the extra-linguistic situation in That 's a horse and There are no horses here ) ; second , any aspect of an extra-linguistic context can in principle be mirrored linguistically ; and , third , linguistic context is more easily controlled and manipulated . |
| 26 | Denny Beresford , chairman of FASB , added further support to the view that the US is more strongly involved than ever in international financial reporting issues , while Hugh Collum , finance director of SmithKline Beecham , emphasised industry 's pressing need for effective harmonisation . |
| 27 | The male is more strongly marked and has larger pectoral fins , with the first ray formed into a hard , bony spine edged with fine barbs . |
| 28 | But , as the quotation from Wallerstein shows , his world-system approach is more narrowly defined than that , for what happens in the UK ( or other countries ) is seen as wholly subordinate to changes in the world system . |
| 29 | Beneath the wheelbarrow , for example , it is more openly exposed and is combined with the darker greens to show the barrow 's shadow falling on the grass . |
| 30 | An orb web is more clearly seen if you " take it " on to a wire loop . |