Example sentences of "are more [adv] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The outline above suggests that agnathans are a paraphyletic group ( that is , some are more closely related to jawed vertebrates than to other agnathans ) and therefore the presence of circular mouths and pouch-like gills was part of gnathostome history . |
| 2 | B , b , This classification is one of several suggesting that one or other of the fossil groups are more closely related to jawed vertebrates than they are to other agnathans . |
| 3 | Boaden 's examination of L.A. expenditure on education reached the conclusion that ‘ it is the poor authorities who spend most , despite their relative poverty , ’ because they are run by Labour councils which are more favourably disposed towards high expenditure on education than Conservative councils . |
| 4 | Better still is a wheelbarrow fitted with a ball instead of a wheel ; they are more easily manoeuvred over soft and rough ground and are kinder to lawns . |
| 5 | Indeed , their different uses have been investigated by Sanford , Moar & Garrod ( 1988 ; Garrod & Sanford 1990 ) , who showed that pronominal references in continuations are more likely to be made to proper-named characters , and that characters introduced by proper name are more easily accessed for anaphoric reference , as indexed by self-paced reading time . |
| 6 | If , for instance , tax allowances and exemptions are more easily acquired by higher-income groups ( as with mortgage repayments , etc. ) then , despite a rising marginal rate , the individual may pay a smaller proportion of a higher total income in tax . |
| 7 | ‘ It will now be necessary to observe that animals are more frequently attacked by epizootic , endemic and contagious diseases than the human species because we are protected from these casualties by our Houses , Clothing and manner of Living , in short by all the precautions that reason dictates , whilst animals are deprived of all these recourses and are constantly exposed to dangers which we avoid by the above-mentioned precautions , besides their food and drink is constantly the same , which often is the cause of a fermentation in their blood which generally terminates in stubborn and fatal diseases . |
| 8 | Remember that it is not unusual for strong winds to be associated with high pressure , although strong winds and gales are more frequently encountered in low pressure systems . |
| 9 | In which context they are more accurately described as hard surface cleaners . |
| 10 | So far as washing — the fourth most disliked task — is concerned , attitudes are more evenly divided between positive , negative and ‘ do n't mind ’ categories . |
| 11 | Glassworms are more commonly found in still waters where the larvae can hover horizontally to lay in wait for prey . |
| 12 | Asphyxia in labour and immaturity are more directly affected by obstetric and paediatric management . |
| 13 | Another reason why Satan and demons are more usually rejected by modern scholarship is because they are seen as mythological explanations of realities now explainable by science . |