Example sentences of "is more [adj] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ian Rock , the chief executive , said yesterday : ‘ The group 's position is more stable than for some time , but it still requires a substantial improvement in the economy and a solution to the group 's gearing before it can achieve satisfactory returns on shareholders ’ funds . ’ |
| 2 | There is some evidence that sleep disturbance in normal old men is more frequent than in normal old women . |
| 3 | The afternoon blast starts around one o'clock , and is more frequent than in Greece . |
| 4 | Lower average body weight and a greater proportion of fatty tissue mean that the effect of alcohol on women is more pronounced than for men . |
| 5 | In general , hardware requirements are lower , print quality is more consistent and with the plentiful availability of clip-art , it 's relatively easy to create an attractive image , even if you 're lacking in artistic talent . |
| 6 | One per cent of Brazilians hold 53 per cent of the wealth : distribution is more unequal than in India . |
| 7 | With that group exercise testing is more predictive than with " all-cause cardiovascular mortality " . |
| 8 | This is partly due to my experiences as a politician , because I know as a politician that when you are doing something naughty , nothing is more effective than to muddy the waters with complication . |
| 9 | It does mean , however , that the process of drawing inferences is more tentative than in experiments , based on if-then reasoning : if it is the case that the true causal story about the variables is as we imagine ( playing God in the way that we did just now with absenteeism ) , then we would expect to find a statistical effect of X on Y . |
| 10 | In a group there is more acquiescing and in a team there is more commitment ( see Agreeing on page 3 ) . |
| 11 | On the other hand , existence is more placid than on the common law side . |
| 12 | The state , for Fine and Harris , is more autonomous than in Soviet orthodoxy , although they remain instrumentalists . |
| 13 | The climate for doing so is more favourable than for some years past . |
| 14 | It is more probable that in most cases , the relative contributions to the final research of student and supervisor could not easily be separated . |
| 15 | Its use in English is more restricted than in some other languages . |
| 16 | Besides , even if the bureaucratic elite is more influential than in the West , their high status as permanent guardians of the national interest is said to be justified by their personal merit . |
| 17 | There may be fainting spells but the patient is more alert than in Belladonna . |
| 18 | Accepting lifts with drunken pilots is more dangerous than with drunken drivers . |
| 19 | For example , it has been shown in certain studies that providing health care to some more isolated rural populations is more expensive than in less sparsely populated areas . |
| 20 | This , they argue , is more powerful than in traditional Keynesian theory , because stages 1 and 2 are much stronger . |
| 21 | In real life the situation is more complex than in our simple analogy . |
| 22 | The existing income tax system in this country is more complex than in other countries . |
| 23 | Implicit in that quote is the idea that science is more serious because of the more formal nature of staff-student relationships . |
| 24 | Government Members argue that today 's Royal Navy is more modern than in 1978 or 1979 . |
| 25 | In relation to child care , for example , she documents how assistance given by mothers to daughters typically is more extensive than between sisters . |
| 26 | Whilst comparable figures are not available for the Netherlands , it seems that the provision of small scale residential homes in the Netherlands is more extensive than in Flanders ( Kampen , 1988 ) . |
| 27 | Against this , some studies in the United States , where formal study of " civics " is more extensive than in Britain , found that taking such courses had little impact on political knowledge and attitudes . |
| 28 | The crowd is more responsive than in LA , strange considering everyone 's heart must have sunk into their trainers . |
| 29 | The construction here is more erudite than in the Madame Cézanne . |
| 30 | However , available data from non-diabetic populations in the age range surveyed in the diabetic clinic study have revealed prevalence rates in both sexes of between 20 and 25 per cent ( Epstein et al , 1965 ; Garcia et al , 1974 ; Hawthorne et al , 1974 ; Kannel & McGee , 1979 ) which would suggest that in non-insulin-treated diabetics at least hyper-tension is more prevalent than in non-diabetics in all ethnic groups . |