Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [pers pn] [be] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the perceptual point of view , all stressed syllables have one characteristic in common , and that is prominence ; stressed syllables are recognised as stressed because they are more prominent than unstressed syllables . |
| 2 | ‘ I was discussing a statistic I 'd heard that you 're more likely to be killed by a donkey than in an aeroplane disaster . |
| 3 | Castle has now decided that it is more prudent , and in line with the practice followed by many companies in the sector , to write off such costs at the point of first release of a new title . |
| 4 | To some extent , this will be done simply because it is felt that it is more efficient , or at least administratively convenient , to handle matters in this way — the matters delegated may be ephemeral , needing constant change ; or technical , requiring expertise . |
| 5 | In ecology the Germans take it for granted that they are more ecology-minded than anyone else , and that they have a special sensitivity for this too . |
| 6 | Given that it is based on a model which examined variation among electoral wards within only a few regions it could be argued that it is more validly applied at a local level . |
| 7 | The advantages of gamma scintigraphy are offset by the fact that patients are required to be static during imaging , whereas it has been shown that it is more reliable to monitor reflux in ambulant patients than patients restricted within a hospital routine . |
| 8 | His explanation for the coming of the prison at that time is that this was ‘ the moment when it became understood that it was more efficient and profitable in terms of the economy of power to place people under surveillance than to subject them to some exemplary penalty ’ ( Foucault , 1990 : 39 ) . |
| 9 | He has grasped that it is more profitable to attack the Government for incompetence and negligence than to present it as a systematic and all-too-competent conspiracy against the people . |
| 10 | Mendès-France thereby demonstrated that it was more important to him to keep the French army free from supranational controls than it was to prevent German rearmament . |
| 11 | is a foot deformity , present at birth right , present at birth , it does n't happen afterwards , it happens , it 's caused before the baby 's born and it 's more common in boys can be one or both foot , feet . |
| 12 | For breeding , then , at least two snails are necessary , but I ( and others ) have found that they are more inclined to breed if a group is kept . |
| 13 | We have already observed that it is more difficult to speechread unless there is enough space between you and the speaker — eyes can not possibly focus on the whole face if it is only six inches away . |
| 14 | The United Kingdom Chancellor of the Exchequer Norman Lamont said on June 23 that G-7 ministers had concluded that it was more important for the Soviet Union to initiate a programme of domestic economic reform than to be the recipient of massive financial aid . |
| 15 | Not surprisingly then , pregnant teenagers are more likely to delay going to the doctor , and in one study , over a quarter had not gone until they were more than three months pregnant . |
| 16 | China would not wish Russian interest in Korea to be increased but it was more likely that a regime headed by Kim Il Sung would move along lines independent of Moscow . |
| 17 | That 's it , yo you was er reserved because you was more important to be on your job than er go to the war . |
| 18 | Mr Kinnock has learnt that it is more effective to mock the Prime Minister as an anachronism in a brave new world than snarl the word ‘ Thatcherism ’ and present her as the personification of all evil . |
| 19 | Our society 's moral values have also changed and we are more liberal and tolerant of such matters as entertainment . |
| 20 | But he was never mentioned and it was more than her life was worth to ask . |