Example sentences of "is [adv] [prep] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harry Moyle 's very detailed examination of Hampden , aided by his own personal experience in the aircraft , is perhaps of more interest to the aircraft than the lifeboat enthusiast but is included here for two very good reasons . |
| 2 | What is generally of more interest is the probability , q 40 , of death between ages 40 and 41 for men in the 1946 birth cohort . |
| 3 | Certainly colour is still of more importance to me than the picture in many cases . |
| 4 | Suppose instead that the railway is entitled to emit sparks — but that this right is still worth more to the railway than to the farmers . |
| 5 | Back on Praslin we spent half a day in the reserve of Valle/1e de Mai , which is probably of more interest to a botanist . |
| 6 | IBM Corp 's new chief executive is being swamped with gratuitous advice on what he should do to turn the company around , but that coming from Stephen Smith , who has tracked the computer industry for PaineWebber Inc for 11 years , is probably worth more of Gerstner 's attention than most . |
| 7 | Compared with 10 years ago , at the same point in the economic cycle , output is up by nearly a quarter , investment is up by a third , manufacturing productivity is up by more than a half and manufacturing exports are up by nearly three quarters . |
| 8 | The hon. Gentleman knows that if we compare the position now with that of 10 years ago — at the same stage of the economic cycle — we see that manufacturing output is up by a quarter , manufacturing investment is up by a third , manufacturing productivity is up by more than a half , and manufactured exports are up by almost three quarters . |
| 9 | The sculpture of Medardo Rosso is also worth more than a passing glance . |
| 10 | Michael Bates Dr Kumar 's adversary in November is back for more and looking confident . |
| 11 | But one thing should console him : Microsoft is now worth more than IBM ! |
| 12 | It is not the fact that a coin is often worth more than the value of the bullion it contains . |
| 13 | Classifying taxes in terms of tax base , rather than method of collection , is often of more interest to economists , especially when calculating tax incidence ( on whom the tax falls ) ! |
| 14 | Respect for human life is surely worth more than easy profit . |
| 15 | In this case calculating recognition measures for individual stimuli is initially of more interest than doing so for individual subjects thus the data is aggregated across subjects . |