Example sentences of "more flexible [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its wide range of properties makes it more flexible than probably any other substance on earth . |
| 2 | But as Weber is more concerned with explaining the meaning of social action than with analysis of political power ( though he is also interested in power ) , his concept of ‘ elite ’ is altogether broader ? more analytical and more flexible than either Wright Mills 's or Mosca 's . |
| 3 | A decisive break from the narrowness of these rules came in the fourteenth century , with Dafydd ap Gwilym , in a period marked both by increasing interaction with a more general European culture , after the loss of political independence , and yet , creatively , by a new ‘ national ’ poetry , itself governed by more flexible but still clear internal rules ( the cywydd metre ) . |
| 4 | The benefit structure is now more flexible and easier to understand . |
| 5 | For both of these groups it will be convenient to have a method of selection that is both more flexible and more discriminating than A levels . |
| 6 | This will enable the Government to contract with a range of different organisations to provide a careers service which is more flexible and more responsive to the needs of local people and local employers . |
| 7 | All these factors contributed to the increasing IT competence of students in terms of the digitization of texts and graphics in a production process which was more flexible and more cost-effective . |
| 8 | These moves have had some success and adult education is probably now more open , more flexible and more responsive to the needs of the whole community than it was then . |
| 9 | As higher levels of self-restraint have been achieved , so the social regulation of behaviour has become more lenient , more flexible and more differentiated . |
| 10 | Concrete paving blocks are a more flexible and more versatile alternative to slabs . |
| 11 | The rays , more flexible and better equipped for swimming , became the most successful : the lobefins much less so . |
| 12 | He added : ‘ We are confident this innovative scheme will help create a more flexible and better trained workforce in the area . ’ |
| 13 | Despite the considerable progress that has been made under this Government in encouraging employee share ownership , will the Minister take careful note of the recent KPMG Management Consulting report which shows ways in which the qualifying employee-share option trusts can be made more flexible and therefore likely to be more widely used by companies and available to more employees in subsequent years of Conservative government ? |
| 14 | Workhouse building , despite the permitting of parishes to combine for the purpose in 1723 , was until 1750 largely an urban phenomenon , for in the countryside out-relief was proving itself a more flexible and still not frighteningly expensive option . |
| 15 | It was , however , looser , more flexible and far less permanent and structured than in the West . |
| 16 | Artwork and a rostrum camera will be more flexible and almost certainly cheaper , especially if you work at 300dpi . |
| 17 | Their advice , even today when it is more flexible and politically sensitive , consequently often falls on deaf ears , not because the economic logic is at fault but because the political factors in the equation are both unquantifiable and subjective for the decision takers . |
| 18 | The trading pre-eminence of the United Kingdom , the only European nation which in 1914 was selling more outside Europe than inside it , made possible a more flexible and roughly triangular system . |
| 19 | His major criticism of Murder in the Cathedral had been that it contained too much obvious " poetry " , and in the new play he wanted to create a more flexible and less ostensible verse line which could handle demotic or rarefied material equally well . |
| 20 | They will make things there which , if the climate were better and the labour more flexible and less expensive , they would have continued to make in this country . |