Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] it [be] more " in BNC.

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1 He thinks that it is more important to convince doctors that ‘ teaching ’ is a broad term and covers much of what they do every day and to ensure that they receive adequate training and support to carry it out well .
2 Aunt Bella says that it 's more economical to buy like that , but I know it 's because she 's afraid .
3 She says that it 's more comfortable and she can sit up in it , rather than slumping as she did in her old one .
4 The Government sees that it is more accountable for the individual tenants to pay their Council Tax directly to the local authority rather than to the landlord and unfortunately no agency arrangements can be put in place that would allow this .
5 Each time the noise from the ‘ tap tap ’ obviously increases until it is more a ‘ clap clap ’ .
6 Firms are less likely to set profit-maximising prices for their products when faced with rising raw material prices and labour costs as it is more difficult for them to estimate their expected revenues and costs .
7 But it appears that it is more often the negative effect of a close relationship , rather than any positive effect , that is of significance in determining psychiatric risk .
8 The time course of resolution of the hypergastrinaemia during antibacterial treatment indicates that it is more closely related to resolution of the antral gastritis than to suppression of bacterial urease activity .
9 The Labour Party supports considerable state intervention because it considers that it is more important to divide the cake more fairly , even if this means having more allocative inefficiency and a smaller cake to share out .
10 Mills argues that it is more complicated than this ; the power elite is a holy trinity of coincidences between apparently dissimilar organisation .
11 Carl N. Degler , using evidence from women of the urban middle class in America ( the class to which Acton 's work was directed ) , together with a survey of married women 's sexual attitudes begun in the 1890s by Dr C. D. Mosher , argues that it was more an ideology seeking to be established than the prevalent view or practice of even middle-class women .
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