Example sentences of "it is more [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zande thus believe this power to be sex-linked and consider that it increases with age : children may be capable of bewitching , but the power is weakly developed in them ; in mature adults it is more strongly realized . |
| 2 | In non-literate society … the cultural tradition functions as a series of interlocking face-to-face conversations in which the very conditions of transmission operate to favour consistency between past and present , and to make criticism — the articulation of inconsistency — less likely to occur ; and if it does , the inconsistency makes a less permanent impact , and it is more easily adjusted or forgotten . |
| 3 | Accommodation is a significant driving factor in the process of new dialect formation as described by Trudgill ( 1986 ) , but it is more easily studied at the level of individuals who adjust their language behaviour given a particular set of circumstances . |
| 4 | Westphalian ham is darker in colour than Parma and Bayonne ; it is more heavily smoked than Bayonne and is aged before selling . |
| 5 | Beneath the wheelbarrow , for example , it is more openly exposed and is combined with the darker greens to show the barrow 's shadow falling on the grass . |
| 6 | This appears to have been known locally as Cinderford Mill , although it is more widely remembered as Brights Corn Mill , the last miller being Samuel Bright . |
| 7 | Given the huge amount of resources expended in detecting and penalising abuse , it is more widely criticised for being inefficient . |
| 8 | The advent of the silicon chip , or integrated circuit , as it is more properly called has revolutionised the field of electronics . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Job-search , on this basis , is seen as ‘ more efficient , in that it is more closely aligned to employers ’ recruitment methods ' ( loc. cit . ) . |
| 11 | One of the er matters that er one needs to apply one 's mind to in considering whether or not this land serves a greenbelt function or not , is to look at the land and assess whether or not it is more closely associated with the village or more closely associated with the er agricultural open land beyond the village . |
| 12 | The rail network supported by the PTE is smaller than in Manchester with 88 route miles ( 142 route km ) and 74 stations , but it is more intensively used and largely electrified . |
| 13 | The question of chemical sensitivity is no less controversial than that of food intolerance — if anything it is more hotly debated . |
| 14 | It is more generally accepted , however , that the buoyancy of the continental crust has limited the extent of continental underthrusting and that this is why the more recent Main Boundary Thrust dipping under the Lesser Himalayas has now taken over the role played earlier by the Main Central Thrust ( Fig. 3.22(A) ) . |
| 15 | It is more generally understood as pain that is made worse rather than better by increasing doses of morphine . |
| 16 | That is to say , it is more generally agreed here than elsewhere that preference for back realizations of /a/ , for example , indicate close personal ties , casualness of conversational type , and/or male identity , and that other realizations indicate greater social distance and/or female identity . |
| 17 | ‘ Training ’ is not normally considered a ‘ product ’ in science ; it is more frequently regarded as a continuous process . |
| 18 | The origin of such pruning is possibly associated with the discouragement of other invading ants , for it is more frequently found in ant species with stinging rather than other chemical defences . |
| 19 | But all the same , it is more neighbourly to ask first . |
| 20 | Johannesburg Consolidated Investment Company Limited , JCI , or ‘ Johnnies ’ as it is more affectionately known , is once again a major shareholder in Johnson Matthey . |
| 21 | Transmission teaching , or ‘ recitation teaching ’ as it is more commonly called in the United States , is so pervasive within the school system that it can easily be interpreted as the ‘ natural ’ or ‘ proper ’ way to teach , as a network of rules and procedures special to the teaching environment which must be learned , rehearsed and developed in a practical way by the new teacher in order to gain competent membership of the teaching community , and of the classroom order in particular . |
| 22 | On the Von Neumann computer this was called the arithmetic register ( AR ) ; but it is more commonly referred to as the multiplier-quotient ( MQ ) or quotient ( Q ) register . |
| 23 | It is more commonly known today as water gas . |
| 24 | It is of course acknowledged that the new TransAction scheme ( or the National Protocol as it is more commonly known ) does not apply to commercial transactions , or indeed to transactions involving building or farmland . |
| 25 | ( Wilson chooses the word ‘ companies ’ in preference to the currently favoured term ‘ laudesi confraternities ’ as it is more commonly found in contemporary Italian documents . ) |
| 26 | In line B it is more specifically said to be " from the beginning " , but that also raises a question : the beginning of what ? |
| 27 | These terms are all very descriptive , since the material which accumulates around a Strombolian vent does indeed look rather like boiler slag , but it is more correctly called scoria , and the cones which build up around the vent scoria cones . |
| 28 | Primary teachers normally teach English as part of an integrated curriculum , whereas in secondary schools it is more usually taught in timetabled slots by subject specialists . |
| 29 | Aromatherapy , as it is more usually practised , is about prevention of major illness and the symptomatic treatment of minor ailments . |
| 30 | An alternative approach which has a number of advantages over linear control systems , is the switching regulator , or as it is more usually known , the ‘ switch-mode power supply ’ . |