Example sentences of "be [verb] more [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | North American women 's but not men 's achievement motivation seems to be aroused more by non-competitive , affiliative stimuli , but this is not true in Brazil ( Maccoby and Jacklin 1974 , Gama 1985 ) . |
| 2 | Equally , any proposed remedies must be addressed more to administrative and procedural practice than to changing formal legal rules . |
| 3 | The public has to rely on the media but some presentations seem to be made more for dramatic effect than to provide unbiased information . |
| 4 | The answer has to be ‘ no ’ unless we can be told more about that unique five-year-old . |
| 5 | In an indication that Britons would be paying more in indirect taxes in the medium term , but the the blow had been deferred until future years , the Chancellor said : ‘ These reviews will inevitably take time , so I have also had to look to the revenue side of the account . |
| 6 | The prostrate form of Calluna recorded from Hirta , St Kilda ( McVean 1961 ) , may be linked more to salt-burn than to altitudinal descent of the montane growth form . |
| 7 | This has to be based on an understanding of the code of ethics , working to an agreed code of practice and so on , and Ann will be saying more on this . |
| 8 | The ministries become bogged down in detail when their energies and resources should be concentrated more on overall policy , and the ad hoc commissions grow disillusioned and frustrated because they are not allowed to get on with the job . |
| 9 | This is to be found more in industrial markets than in consumer markets . |
| 10 | We 'll be hearing more from this man . |
| 11 | We 've delivered the results , it 's appropriate that they should be charged more on that route . |
| 12 | Discontent seems to be centred more on those on special diets and , with vegetarians , vegans , Hindus , Muslims and Jews to cater for there is clearly scope for problems . |
| 13 | So perhaps we should be thinking more about political education and perhaps we should be thinking more about encouraging them to be non-conformist in the sense that they are prepared to ask questions , to challenge and not to accept glib answers that teachers give out willy nilly … |
| 14 | In any case , at that time the head of the chancery needed to be acquainted more with Roman law , or at least with canon law , than common law , for chancery was just then beginning to function as a court of equity , a notion unfamiliar in the common law . |
| 15 | But the latest thinking in Washington appears to be aimed more at foreign companies which penetrate the US market ( and evade US taxes ) by charging false prices on captive supplies from their overseas parents , and that seems to apply to Japanese companies , rather than European ones . |