Example sentences of "it is more [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zande thus believe this power to be sex-linked and consider that it increases with age : children may be capable of bewitching , but the power is weakly developed in them ; in mature adults it is more strongly realized . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I. Owing to its scalar character it is more easily calculable than the electric field . |
| 4 | Accommodation is a significant driving factor in the process of new dialect formation as described by Trudgill ( 1986 ) , but it is more easily studied at the level of individuals who adjust their language behaviour given a particular set of circumstances . |
| 5 | Westphalian ham is darker in colour than Parma and Bayonne ; it is more heavily smoked than Bayonne and is aged before selling . |
| 6 | If it is more heavily impressed on girls that certain types of behaviour are wrong , then they will tend to feel greater apprehension and guilt if they are tempted by delinquent or criminal activities . |
| 7 | In fact , if the aposematic prey is rare , it is more heavily predated , and the proportion falls : if the aposematic prey is relatively frequent to begin with , it is favoured , and becomes more common The black and yellow caterpillars of the cinnabar moth are camouflaged when seen from a distance as they feed on their favoured ragwort . |
| 8 | Dobson argues convincingly that as the admission of freemen was controlled by the borough authorities , it is more probably that the increased number of admissions was prompted by their desire to spread the load of civic obligations , and to secure money from the payments made on entry to assist shaky borough finances . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In this it is related to the heads of the Two Nudes painted a few months earlier , but as opposed to them , it is more completely mask-like , and every area or section of it is clearly defined and forms a self-contained unit . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Given the huge amount of resources expended in detecting and penalising abuse , it is more widely criticised for being inefficient . |
| 13 | The advent of the silicon chip , or integrated circuit , as it is more properly called has revolutionised the field of electronics . |
| 14 | But it was the ritual tramp across Ilkley Moor — or Rombalds Moor , as it is more properly but less popularly known that was the favourite pilgrimage ( and so it remains , to the extent that the track through the purple heather has been worn down in part to bare rock ) . |
| 15 | Job-search , on this basis , is seen as ‘ more efficient , in that it is more closely aligned to employers ’ recruitment methods ' ( loc. cit . ) . |
| 16 | One of the er matters that er one needs to apply one 's mind to in considering whether or not this land serves a greenbelt function or not , is to look at the land and assess whether or not it is more closely associated with the village or more closely associated with the er agricultural open land beyond the village . |
| 17 | The time course of resolution of the hypergastrinaemia during antibacterial treatment indicates that it is more closely related to resolution of the antral gastritis than to suppression of bacterial urease activity . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The question of chemical sensitivity is no less controversial than that of food intolerance — if anything it is more hotly debated . |
| 20 | That is to say , it is more generally agreed here than elsewhere that preference for back realizations of /a/ , for example , indicate close personal ties , casualness of conversational type , and/or male identity , and that other realizations indicate greater social distance and/or female identity . |
| 21 | It is more generally understood as pain that is made worse rather than better by increasing doses of morphine . |
| 22 | It is more generally accepted , however , that the buoyancy of the continental crust has limited the extent of continental underthrusting and that this is why the more recent Main Boundary Thrust dipping under the Lesser Himalayas has now taken over the role played earlier by the Main Central Thrust ( Fig. 3.22(A) ) . |
| 23 | ‘ Training ’ is not normally considered a ‘ product ’ in science ; it is more frequently regarded as a continuous process . |
| 24 | The origin of such pruning is possibly associated with the discouragement of other invading ants , for it is more frequently found in ant species with stinging rather than other chemical defences . |
| 25 | But all the same , it is more neighbourly to ask first . |
| 26 | The series is a variation of Hans Christian Andersen 's fable of the Emperor — and it is more rather than less pointed because here the clothes are fabulous . |
| 27 | Johannesburg Consolidated Investment Company Limited , JCI , or ‘ Johnnies ’ as it is more affectionately known , is once again a major shareholder in Johnson Matthey . |
| 28 | Scobie appears to borrow the connection from an article by Sandra Djwa — ‘ Leonard Cohen : Black Romantic ’ which first appeared in 1967 , where it is more skilfully and roundly argued : ‘ Cohen 's dominant theme ( is ) , ’ she says , ‘ the relationship between experience and art , and more specifically the suggestion that the value of experience is to be found in the art of ‘ beauty ’ distilled from it … ’ |
| 29 | It is more commonly known today as water gas . |
| 30 | Transmission teaching , or ‘ recitation teaching ’ as it is more commonly called in the United States , is so pervasive within the school system that it can easily be interpreted as the ‘ natural ’ or ‘ proper ’ way to teach , as a network of rules and procedures special to the teaching environment which must be learned , rehearsed and developed in a practical way by the new teacher in order to gain competent membership of the teaching community , and of the classroom order in particular . |