Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [conj] [be] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some methods in sociology are regarded as being more reliable than others . |
| 2 | People are seen as being more selfish , aggressive , and less tolerant and happy than was the case a decade ago . |
| 3 | Even within the legitimate forms of reason in society , some are ranked as being more ‘ reasonable ’ than others . |
| 4 | The homoeopathic potencies , being structured water polymers , can be visualized as being more powerful than the random water polymers present in the body fluids . |
| 5 | These results are based on considerably expanded sample sizes so may be accepted as being more representative of the expected performance within each domain . |
| 6 | Finally , institutions of higher education can be seen as being more or less rational in their organization , their internal arrangements and their managerial processes . |
| 7 | This is plausible enough but falls down , I submit , when the work by its very nature is of such a character that failure to adapt might be construed as being more reality orientated . |
| 8 | Second , local and regional government will have to be created and is more likely to require and use powers of economic initiative . |
| 9 | Another important source of secondary danger clues came from the parents ' life histories : for example , parents who had certain ‘ personality traits ’ , had been abused or ‘ in care ’ themselves as children , had been in regular ‘ trouble ’ as children or/and as adults , were seen as being more likely to harm their children . |
| 10 | Such free-text sources were identified as being more representative of the type of text that the system would eventually have to recognise . |
| 11 | It is regarded as being more important that the new appointee be familiar with the aims and methods which Highlander endorses rather than necessarily be able to present the best paper qualifications for the advertised job . |
| 12 | Major may have made it to the White House before Chancellor Kohl and President Mitterrand , but that does not mean he is regarded as being more important than either of them . |
| 13 | Although agriculture hardly figured in the race to the White House , Presidentelect Bill Clinton is regarded as being more protectionist and the failure to resolve outstanding differences over oil seeds could well fuel an agricultural trade war . |
| 14 | Such an effects-based approach is seen as being more efficient in that it is likely to capture for investigation a greater number of anti- competitive agreements and fewer of those that are innocuous . |
| 15 | As Weill reminds us : ‘ Good light music is appreciated as being more valuable than bad serious music . ’ |
| 16 | At the end of the last century when Impressionism was still a dirty word in England , and anyone who bought a Monet was considered as being more than half-way on the road to Bedlam , the Americans were taking to him with something of the enthusiasm which they were then displaying for the newly discovered chewing-gum . |