Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] [is] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Concentration during study is more important to your career than concentration in the course of a rugger match . |
| 2 | It helps to have a high IQ , though I suspect a talent for mimicry is more useful ; being able to adopt at will the tones and attitudes of the educated middle classes . |
| 3 | The import and export of goods is more complicated than conducting domestic business within a single country , for a number of largely self-evident reasons . |
| 4 | Normally half of this ‘ extra ’ height is lost in the first hour after waking but , if exercise is taken on waking , then the loss of height is more rapid . |
| 5 | But since this proportion is relatively small , the main explanation for the neglect of women in the study of retirement is more likely to be a combination of two particular factors . |
| 6 | In rewriting , the spellings can be put right , and the finished piece of work is more likely to be accurate . |
| 7 | Any librarian involved in the selection of material is also constantly in touch with readers , so that an over-theoretical approach based merely upon the bibliographical and logistic aspects of provision is more likely to be avoided . |
| 8 | In oesophageal cancer , the effect of hyperthermochemo-radiotherapy is more pronounced in aneuploid than in diploid tumours . |
| 9 | The long-term effect of deregistration is more damaging to Labour . |
| 10 | Where a product is to be marketed in export markets which have high temperatures and/or high humidities , or both , prediction of shelf-life is more difficult . |
| 11 | This criterion of credibility is more formally embodied in Selten 's equilibrium concept of subgame perfection . |
| 12 | However , on balance , the use here of similar colours ( red , yellow , grey , pale-blue , brown ) and shapes of tesserae is more significant . |
| 13 | If it is a nice and finely balanced question whether the statute of wills is more consistent with traditional principles of law if it is interpreted to forbid murderers to inherit , then wrestling with that question is hardly a sensible way of deciding what most people would now favour . |
| 14 | The application of monoclonal antibody research in medicine is more widespread than just in the treatment of cancer . |
| 15 | That juries and courts should appear to be taking an increasingly lenient view of these acts of retribution is more disturbing again . |
| 16 | At first sight a matter of user opinion , assessment of convenience is more involved and should be the subject of objective rather than subjective analysis by a technique known as decision path analysis ( DPA ) . |
| 17 | Where the level of infection is more than 1,000 larvae per kg of dried herbage , the daily larval intake of grazing cows is in excess of 10,000 larvae . |
| 18 | All of them are made in America , where this kind of stuff is more popular . |
| 19 | In Western societies like Britain awareness of the possible or actual dangers of RE is more to the fore than appreciation of its potential assets . |
| 20 | Otherwise the course of events is more or less predictable . |
| 21 | Also , the rate of use in public libraries is generally higher , so that physical dilapidation of stock is more likely to set in , and oblige staff to weed . |
| 22 | The presence of vines is more difficult to explain as viticulture has yet to be proved positively in Roman Britain , although it would seem logical after the Edict of Probus . |
| 23 | And their very clear view based on their long and practical experience of the Greater York development market , is that a location South South West of York is more likely to be a successful location particularly for the employment component of the new settlement , than any other sector of York . |
| 24 | The technique of P-postlabelling is more sensitive and is able to detect DNA adducts without any previous knowledge of their chemical structure . |
| 25 | These can create a sense of pleasure or well-being , so that when food contains capsaicin , the experience of eating is more intense and the food seems more highly flavoured . |
| 26 | So , for Eliot , Baudelaire ‘ was at least able to understand that the sexual act as evil is more dignified , less boring , than as the natural , ‘ life-giving ’ , cheery automatism of the modern world' . |
| 27 | It might even be possible to create a ‘ place in the sun ’ , where car parking has been placed underground because a place in the sun for townsfolk is more important than a place in the sun for cars ( e ) . |
| 28 | In that case , Realism is dominant because , despite anomalies , its selection of aspects of events and identification of trends is more enlightening and fertile than those of its rivals . |
| 29 | A representation of reality from the standpoint of women is more objective and unbiased than the prevailing representations that reflect the standpoint of men . |
| 30 | The Queen of Beauty is more than one view or expression of beauty . |