Example sentences of "[noun] would [verb] to [be] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | In communications , given that the course deals with a variety of political relationships , disagreement between staff would have to be more overtly ideological ; the course itself is easily open to charges of left-wing bias . |
| 2 | It seems equally likely that , even without adopting the Scandinavian scheme involving a different scale of penalties for marital rape , sentencing in such cases would tend to be more lenient than in other rape cases . |
| 3 | On reaching Port Said , however , the captain declared that Annesley would have to be more respectably attired if he wished to continue in first class . |
| 4 | If asked where you would use a minor scale , the obvious answer would be over a minor chord , but if the chord was Am7£5 or Em7♭5 your choice of scale would have to be more precise . |
| 5 | Many teachers would like to be more adventurous , creative and experimental than they feel it is possible or safe to be . |
| 6 | The resulting fear and frustration would seem to be more in line with the mockery of the devil . |
| 7 | There are cases where variant readings of a single lexical form would seem to be more appropriately visualised as points on a continuum — a seamless fabric of meaning with no clear boundaries . |
| 8 | The remaining subfamilies would appear to be more closely related from the characters of the oral and dental plates shown by Murakami ( 1963 ) . |
| 9 | Remedies for the poverty of single mothers and their families in an economy where the two-income family sets the norm in both the production and consumption systems would need to be more far reaching than those proposed by Wilson . |
| 10 | On the face of it , such activity would seem to be more expressive of right-wing rather than left-wing sentiments . |