Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [be] more [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given these premises , then , and Moffat 's distaste notwithstanding that it would imply ‘ democracies reduced resort monarchy as weapon against Communism ’ , one wonders what else , apart from outright rejection , the US might have done when the French turned towards ex-Emperor Bao Dai : at least as a rallying point for non-communist Vietnamese nationalists and , of course , as someone who might be expected to be more amenable to French influence than Ho Chi Minh . |
| 2 | No layman was expected to be more generous to the church , or was more intimately connected with it , than the head of this Christian society , the king . |
| 3 | Preference shares , particularly redeemable preference shares , are sometimes considered to be more akin to loan stock than share capital . |
| 4 | Public services have become more marketing orientated and have to be seen to be more accountable to their ‘ publics ’ ( e.g. the police service which is now more public relations conscious than in the past ) . |
| 5 | This might be seen to be more relevant to users but the trade-off would have to be made against the possible effects on the date of publication . |
| 6 | This brings him back to another of Mr Major 's weekend promises , to give people more of a stake in their local administration : ‘ If they are going to bring local government closer to people , it has got to be more responsive to the wishes of people , and less to the wishes of central Government . |
| 7 | This is in contrast to previous findings , in which cultures of dissociated anterior mesenchyme were shown to be more responsive to FGF than were cultures of posterior mesenchyme . |
| 8 | They now grow Whitbread Goldings Variety , developed to be more resistant to wilt than the traditional East Kent type . |