Example sentences of "found to [be] more [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Based on our research , we concur with the earlier observation that ‘ paraprofessionals who come from the communities which they serve have been found to be more effective in working with the people as they have close ties and may have insights and information not readily available to the outsider ’ ( IASSW , 1979 , p. 8 ) . |
| 2 | Since our article appeared , a group of experts convened by the EC has concluded that ‘ Although clay minerals have been widely used since the Chernobyl accident , the Prussian Blue compounds have been found to be more effective and easier to administer ’ . |
| 3 | In a prospective , randomized trial , non-medical therapists ( psychiatric nurses ) have been found to be more effective than general practitioners in the management of female patients and patients with dyadic problems ( Hawton et al. 1987 ) . |
| 4 | Hence vertical perspective cues provide the only consistent and reliable information about the distance to the surface and these were found to be more effective in practice for depth and size scaling . |
| 5 | Different combinations of these roles have been found to be more effective for certain tasks than others . |
| 6 | The exit-entrance distinction was found to be more specific for depression , and people who attempted suicide not only had an excess of exit events , but also an excess of entrance events . |
| 7 | When forests in the Malay Peninsula ( Kuala Lompat ) and northern Borneo ( Sepilok ) were phytochemically compared , and the levels of nitrogen , fibre , total phenolics and condensed tannin , and degree of digestibility by both cellulase and pepsin determined for both young and old leaves of the canopy species from both places , that at Kuala Lompat was found to be more digestible in having higher nitrogen but lower fibre and phenolic levels . |
| 8 | The Germans and the Italians , by contrast , were found to be more negative , and the Mexicans inconsistent . |
| 9 | Attitudes towards marriage with a member of a different nationality , for instance , were found to be more favourable among the urban population ( an increasing proportion of the total ) than among their rural counterparts . |
| 10 | However , staphylokinase has now been found to be more potent than streptokinase for the dissolution of platelet-rich arterial eversion graft thrombi ; moreover , it seems to be less immunogenic . |
| 11 | Clearly , however , post-depositional breakage does occur , because the bones from fossil assemblages obviously accumulated by predators are consistently found to be more broken than the predator assemblages described here . |
| 12 | Boys who were caned at school for smoking were found to be more likely to increase their smoking than those not caned . |
| 13 | Women were found to be more likely than men to poison themselves after receiving psychotropics , and patients aged between 15 and 29 years had the highest rates . |
| 14 | Those who coped less effectively , and allowed themselves to become trapped into unsatisfactory lifestyles , were found to be more likely to become depressed , perhaps because they had reduced their chances of achieving a dependable , intimate relationship with their husband , or increased their chances of stressful lives . |
| 15 | It is reported that in a number of countries that are regionally , culturally and socio-economically heterogeneous , malnutrition has been found to be more common among children born after short than after long intervals ( Rinehart , 1984 , p. 686 ) . |
| 16 | This membrane contains endotoxins ; although on a cell-to-cell basis , L-forms contain less , they were sometimes found to be more endotoxic than complete bacteria . |
| 17 | In other species such as S.cerevisiae ( 6 ) , S.pombe ( 7 ) or Dictyostelium ( 8 ) , the repeated units were found to be more heterogeneous . |
| 18 | A LM3915N i.c. with a ‘ log ’ response normally associated with sound level applications is also available , but in tests the LM3914N was found to be more satisfactory in this instance . |
| 19 | They were found to be more satisfactory . |
| 20 | The sandstone was quarried here at first , but later mined when this was found to be more economical than removing the ‘ overburden ’ — the rock and soil which has to be dug away in quarrying to get at the useful strata . |
| 21 | Indeed workers over 50 have been found to be more productive than their younger colleagues because of their experience , maturity , and strong work ethic . |
| 22 | Our results would support this viewpoint as men where found to be more lateralised than women and they have poorer language ability , but superior visual ability . |