Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] is more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only sleep stage deprivation experiments can answer the question whether one stage or another is more restorative , and these are discussed next . |
| 2 | However , the fact is that some people use this notion and that is more important than what it really is . |
| 3 | In 1912 Eleanor Barton , a spokeswoman for the WCG ( albeit herself middle class ) , voiced the opinion that ‘ women suffer a great deal through their husbands ’ sensuality , and that is more evident amongst working people than other classes , simply because the conditions of life lend themselves to that sort of thing , and they have not been taught the proper uses of their bodies ' . |
| 4 | ‘ And that is more important than anything else . ’ |
| 5 | For many people the problem of how to become fitter and healthier is more a question of method than intention . |
| 6 | ‘ Secondly , and this is more important , you will have the capability to influence your own reality in a profoundly greater sense than at any time in mankind 's history . |
| 7 | Maybe modern man is more stoical of nature , or perhaps , and this is more likely , there has been a real change in the symptom-producing capabilities of the gonococcus . |
| 8 | In other households there will be younger sons and daughters who are in paid work and this is more likely to be the case among those households in which the younger elderly live . |
| 9 | The sentence is not related to the offence so much as whether the defendant is homeless , jobless , or has been the subject of a care order , and this is more likely to have happened to black youth . |
| 10 | This is because there are no semantic cues as to who is waving at whom , and so a syntactic analysis of the question is necessary and this is more difficult in the second version where the relative pronoun ( that ) has been deleted . |
| 11 | Experience of these techniques has recently prompted Oldfield ( 1983b ) to propose a steady-state model of ecosystem change related to man 's impact on environment as an additional alternative to more familiar successional and cyclic models , and this is more appropriately considered in relation to other time-bound developments ( chapter 8 , p. 182 ) . |
| 12 | Also , and this is more tricky , we want to know what Riddle 's financial position is . |
| 13 | From Figures 7.2 and 7.3 it is clear that there is indeed more risk-related information at the high risk junctions and this is more marked for the high risk exemplars than the low risk ones . |
| 14 | This is a task that is better done by the human eye , together with — and this is more to the point — the 10-giganeurone computer inside the skull . |
| 15 | Official and Confidential is more , though , than an exposé of a tyrant . |
| 16 | In parts of the country , a black man between the ages of 15 and 25 is more likely to be killed than was an American soldier in Vietnam . |
| 17 | But neither is more scientifically fundamental . |
| 18 | But this is more a measure of the limitations of our own mind . |
| 19 | But this is more out of opportunity than necessity . |
| 20 | But this is more exciting , because the music is more varied . |
| 21 | Today I suppose he 'd have written variations on Happy Birthday , but this is more fun . |
| 22 | If actual infection is uncommon , a balanitis due to C. albicans is not ; but this is more often due to the ‘ allergic ’ type of response to infection in the sexual partner . |
| 23 | Manipulating behaviour is usually considered bad but this is more debatable . |
| 24 | The last question illustrates the difficulty of wording a question about real distance which does not get confused with distance on the tables , but this is more likely to happen in a pencil and paper test than in a practical situation . |
| 25 | ‘ But this is more for young people . |
| 26 | ‘ I know , buddy , but this is more important . |
| 27 | Erm but this is more or less , indigenous within the engineering industry , there is even inherent within an engineering mind , and I 'm not with the planners or the technical experts , but even in the ordinary lay engineer , he looks to be able to do the job more efficiently , with the materials that he has in hand er and possibly introduce a new type of tool if he can get the proper material , and likewise the employer was doing the same thing . |
| 28 | ‘ I should , but this is more important than a dozen shows . |
| 29 | But this is more a reflection of historical functions and origins , as with the role of postal services as a source of revenue for the state and as an instrument of state security . |