Example sentences of "more [adv] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many women can ache for the love of a child more intensely than for the love of a man . |
| 2 | Gischler and Jauregui ( 1984 ) have demonstrated that in Peru much of this pre-Hispanic terracing is abandoned but could be renovated to enhance food production more economically than by developing new lands . |
| 3 | Nowhere does this manifest itself more blatantly than in the way that the state , in most EEC countries , is allowed by EEC institutions to use the enterprises it owns or controls to act as vehicles for receiving and in some cases dispensing subsidies . |
| 4 | Otherwise he 'll keep the work in house , arid get it done more cost-effectively than by using any sub-contractor . |
| 5 | In the 1990s the number of people of working age will either fall or grow more slowly than over the past two decades in all the big industrial economies , which should help to reduce dole queues . |
| 6 | Although it occurred more slowly than for subjects given non-reinforced pre-exposure , loss of the OR occurred in control subjects too , a result consistent with the view that α will decline when the CS predicts a consistent consequence and that the OR reflects the value of α . |
| 7 | In all cases the necessity of balancing professional and academic requirements has been recognised , with the inexorable move toward a ‘ graduate ’ profession being accepted responsibly , though more slowly than for similar professions : ‘ It is a matter for concern that , compared with other professions surveying has not made a greater impact upon university life and thought in general ’ ( Wells Report , 1960 ) . |
| 8 | In Cantal the livestock density per hectare of permanent grassland appears to be increasing only very slowly now and certainly more slowly than between 1955 and 1970 . |
| 9 | Mr Lamont said : ‘ The key to an improved trade performance lies in the competitiveness of our products — and the signs are encouraging : earnings are now growing more slowly than at any time for 25 years ; labour productivity has been rising rapidly , and while unit wage costs in manufacturing have been rising in Japan and Germany , here they showed no increase at all during 1992 . |
| 10 | Morale among the Party faithful declined more slowly than among the rest of the population . |
| 11 | He believes that the jets come from areas where material is evaporating from the surface more slowly than in surrounding regions . |
| 12 | For most people ageing now takes place more slowly than in the past . |
| 13 | Profitability declined slightly but more slowly than in the previous 18 months . |
| 14 | Consumer electronics exports grew more slowly than in the previous year , but sales of computer disks rose by 31 per cent to S$7,200 million . |
| 15 | Species and genetic change , fixation of atmospheric N 2 , and nitrogen deposition may have facilitated plant response to CO 2 in the past when concentrations rose more slowly or with a greater relaxation time between change than today , but data are lacking . |
| 16 | He saw with pleasure that she looked cold but not frightened ; she was beginning to swim more slowly and for the first time with trust , as if the water were a friendly and not an alien element . |
| 17 | This time it was said more slowly and with powerful conviction . |
| 18 | Her books were produced more slowly and with much frustration . |
| 19 | As p H rose , leaves closed more slowly and by p H 5 the traps were virtually paralysed . |
| 20 | The lengthy section in the same report on the persecution of the Jews in Germany began by stating that what was currently taking place was the ‘ irresistible extermination of a minority ’ , comparable to the genocide against the Armenians by the Turks during the First World War but carried out in Germany against the Jews ‘ more slowly and in more planned fashion ’ , adding accurately that ‘ in reality a lawless situation has long prevailed , through which every act of force against the Jewish minority is sanctioned ’ . |
| 21 | Strengthened by the united front , the Chinese responded more vigorously than in any previous incident , moving troops to the area . |
| 22 | The Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals ' report suggests that more flexibility should ‘ allow staff to be used considerably more effectively than under the present system , where research is considered the prime and often only road to reward and promotion and hence staff expect that the balance of their tasks should be broadly the same for all . ’ |
| 23 | But even if the old partnership of Christian Democrats , Socialists and Liberals gets a working majority , the serious opposition parties have made their point more effectively than at any time since 1948 . |
| 24 | Both syntactic and semantic information could be used more effectively than at present . |
| 25 | But contraceptive techniques were improving throughout this time and successive marriage cohorts were more likely to use contraception ( table 4.2 ) and use it more effectively than before ( Rowntree and Pierce 1961 , Langford 1976 , Cartwright 1978 , Dunnell 1979 ) . |
| 26 | Since Sartre and Althusser there have been a number of possibilities : for some , the absolute historicism of the Frankfurt School has become increasingly attractive , although in its current manifestation in the work of Habermas we might say that history has been eclipsed far more effectively than by any comparable French philosopher . |
| 27 | One final aspect of microbiology which we can learn from novels far more effectively than from textbooks is the symptomology of disease . |
| 28 | I am not seeking to make health care into a business , but I make no apology for seeking to employ business techniques in the health service in order to deliver the central objectives of the health service more effectively than in the past . |
| 29 | In the meantime it is better to have tough regulation than none at all , and the consumer must have someone who can intervene on his behalf more effectively than in the past . |
| 30 | The NRA 's chief scientist , Jan Pentreath , said that heavy metals and pesticides had to be controlled more effectively because of their toxic effect on the marine environment . |