Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] more [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such aids make the stand look more attractive . |
| 2 | It would , however , leave prospects for medium-term , or even short-term , progress in solving the federal budget deficit more confused than ever . |
| 3 | But the DoE found the Whitehall struggle more difficult than it had supposed . |
| 4 | The overall aim of the Enterprise Centre is to enable students and staff to develop the essential enterprise/transferable skills to operate and succeed in a changing employment and business environment and thus make Napier University more responsive to the needs of work . |
| 5 | In the previous chapter , percentage tables were introduced as a way of making contingency data more readable . |
| 6 | For the twenty-three years after 1950 , the list was run by Miss Mary Bruce , a caricature white-haired Whitehall spinster more interested in horses than in people and who scared the pants off all who worked with her . |
| 7 | Finally there is a worry that the new pressures make peer review more conservative in the selection of projects . |
| 8 | Meeting for the first time in Bonn in January ( see Nature 361 , 576 ; 1993 ) , the councils are trying to make EC-supported international research programmes more efficient and have scheduled a meeting in London in October to discuss the issue . |
| 9 | Ruth Ann Swenson also makes a sweet voiced Marsinah , and Jerry Hadley sings well as the Caliph , but Valerie Masterson is even more appealing and David Rendall more impassioned . |
| 10 | In summary , substituting depreciation accounting for the existing method would make revenue accounts more relevant for cost comparisons but less reliable for financial control . |
| 11 | This is a world where document management and revision tracking are probably more important than the finer points of typography , the ability to pull information out of the corporate data base more vital than a range of typefaces and sizes . |
| 12 | MBO might make your management practice look more beautiful , but it wo n't help you achieve your objectives unless , of course , your people really understand the significance of objective-setting iii which case they would n't need MBO . |
| 13 | It made government supporters more optimistic about the economy and opposition supporters more pessimistic . |
| 14 | Our aim will be to give tenants a choice of landlord wherever possible , and make management of both council and housing association stock more responsive to the needs of tenants . |
| 15 | Some toxins have been identified , and one makes the blood vessels more leaky , which might account for the production of urticaria . |
| 16 | Because the machine is produced and factory aligned as a double bed with the needles sitting in individual channels and because of the addition of the pushing down wheels , the tuck knitting is more easily made , with its stitch formation more accurate , without the lateral distortion than can occur within the stitches made on a machine that does not have needle channels . |
| 17 | He fully accepts that there is the problem of the car 's contribution to the greenhouse effect and the way it is making new car buyers more critical and raising their expectations . |
| 18 | These areas of study engender more complicated ideas about the subject than do other psychological fields . |
| 19 | Given this cast of mind , it was not surprising that during Mrs Thatcher 's occupancy the Great and Good found the doors of 10 Downing Street more closed than at any time since the war . |
| 20 | In an attempt to beat the car thief more sophisticated alarms are being brought onto the market . |
| 21 | Glasgow , an industrial city beside the Clyde noted for shipbuilding , is larger than Edinburgh , and although it is not as beautiful as Scotland 's capital , its university was founded more than 100 years earlier , its art galleries are even more distinguished , its theatrical tradition is stronger , its churches possibly grimier , and its football teams more famous . |
| 22 | The polls have given Neil Kinnock more obvious cause for hope , but even when they were at their briefly euphoric peak last week , he remained soberly satisfied , rather than certain . |
| 23 | At the risk of seeming ungracious to my hosts , I must record that I found the Stiftungs beer more complex in character and traditional in style . |
| 24 | One exception is 1987 , with the peak and fall of equity prices more apparent in the stock data , although flows noticeably slow in early 1988 . |
| 25 | I hope you will not be one of those who suffer but the increasing chance makes your Home Risks Insurance more essential than ever and I am very pleased that you have chosen to buy your protection from Legal and General . |
| 26 | The state has made labour markets more flexible by abandoning both its commitment to full employment and corporatist arrangements involving consultation between unions , management and the state . |
| 27 | In the 1980s , given the immense and ever-rising cost of R&D , Sir John Harvey-Jones pursued a policy of making the group 's research effort more business-oriented , one of ‘ inventing into the marketplace ’ . |
| 28 | ( ii ) Does Insider Dealing make the Stock Market More Efficient ? |
| 29 | So for him the technology holds no fears and he is always looking for ways to make the stock market more accessible to the ordinary man or woman in the street . |
| 30 | Redundancies arising from a reduction in work present more difficult questions . |