Example sentences of "[noun] more [adj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | just as left handers are as a rule more variable in their hand preferences , so too are they less completely lateralised at the cerebral level . |
| 2 | It is that long , this month , since a Government initiative to get British industry more involved in the oil business was launched in the wake of the first North Sea discoveries . |
| 3 | We have been successful in going in the opposite direction — in increasing the number of jobs and in making British industry more competitive in the past 10 years . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It makes this cell more liveable in . |
| 6 | Finally there is a worry that the new pressures make peer review more conservative in the selection of projects . |
| 7 | THE president of the Court of Governors of the University College of Wales , Aberystwyth , Sir Melvyn Rosser , has joined the board of Menter a Busnes , the agency that aims to make Welsh speakers more enterprising in business . |
| 8 | One saving grace was that television drama preferred scenes of short , crisp dialogue which artists , by and large , preferred to doing large chunks of monologue or narration more common in the Theatre . |
| 9 | For readers more interested in the Gemaldegalerie 's building ( 1856 , by Gottfried Semper ) and in the history of the collection , there is in a separate volume Gemäldegalerie Dresden : Die Sammlung , Das Gebäude by Heinrich Magirius ( architecture ) and Harald Marx ( the collection ) . |
| 10 | For readers more interested in the substance of EC policies and decision-making processes , the best first stops , both available as cheap and cheerful paperbacks , are John Pinder 's European Community : Building of a Union ( Oxford ) and Kevin Featherstone 's The Successful Manager 's Guide to 1992 ( Fontana ) . |
| 11 | Although imperial lines , like the Canadian Pacific and the Grand Trunk Pacific in Canada or the Uganda and Cape to Cairo railways in Africa , stole the British headlines since they enhanced so many colonial myths , British investment and railway-building were more considerable and in many respects more potent in the Anglo-American ‘ informal Empire ’ of Latin America . |
| 12 | Oh I , I should think that about fifteen years ago er when erm the lighting manufacturers had decided that er there was a great deal more available in lighting than just the erm , type of glass bowls and shades that had been used , well in between the wars er , I mean after the war was over in nineteen forty six er they were still using the same things that they did before the war and this just carried on er and er it , it only within the last what I suppose fifty years that 's over |
| 13 | Callinicos is able to set the claims of such postmodern advocates as Charles Jencks and Linda Hutcheon against an analysis of Modernism ( predicated largely on that of Eugene Lunn ) in order to demonstrate that the latter is a good deal more complex in respect of its characteristic conceptions of the subject , expression , reflexion etc , than the former are wont to have it . |
| 14 | Bending over her , he murmured softly , ‘ We 'd be a great deal more comfortable in bed . ’ |
| 15 | The KPNLF , which has about 7,000 men , had until recently been dismissed by military analysts as a badly organised force more interested in black-market activities across the Thai-Cambodia border than military operations . |
| 16 | We intend to take all these initiatives further and offer parents more choice in the new Parliament . |
| 17 | I C I was given the unfortunate impression with management more interested in running a big chemical company than in maximizing shareholder returns . |
| 18 | These tendencies were carried much further by the younger men , Gibbons , Coprario , the younger Ferrabosco , Thomas Lupo , and a number of others , who would base a short section on a popular morris-dance tune ( as Gibbons does in a four-part viol fantasy ) and use motives more clear-cut in rhythmic profile sequentially as Giovanni Gabrieli does . |
| 19 | Several years later it was observed that 39 per cent of 500 diabetic patients had systolic blood pressure greater than 150 mm Hg ( Kramer , 1928 ) , and in the same year another study showed that hypertension was almost three times more common in diabetics than non-diabetics ( Bell & Clawson , 1928 ) . |
| 20 | The input word far would never be correctly recognised , since the sequence ‘ fo ’ is approximately three times more common in English than the di-gram ‘ fa ’ . |
| 21 | Cardiovascular disease is three times more common in diabetic patients than the non-diabetic population and is the main cause of death in people with non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus . |
| 22 | Pregnancy and birth complications are 1.7 times more common in Arkhangelsk than in neighbouring districts , and in the past three years the incidence of cancer and blood diseases in children has risen threefold . |
| 23 | The findings also reportedly indicate that even Europeans , who are judged to be two to three times more interested in Unix than Americans , reject the notion of Unix on the desktop , reckoning MS-DOS and Windows are sufficient , allowing for a move to NT where necessary down the road . |
| 24 | Hypertension , a disease strongly linked with fetal growth , was four times more concordant in single placenta monozygous twins than in monozygous twins who had separate placentas . |
| 25 | The qualifications necessary to enable a person to stand in a local electionaire more extensive in some instances and more restrictive in others than those which enable a person to vote . |
| 26 | The thrust of government policy will be to make educational institutions more competitive in their search for pupils and students . |
| 27 | The more compressed style is of course more likely in the carefully constructed world of literary expression , but it lacks the dynamic punch of the conversational sequence . |
| 28 | He recommended some training for hotel staff to be a bit more professional in their attitude . |
| 29 | ‘ I just hope we are a bit more successful in this Test than the last two we have played in . |
| 30 | ‘ Though he had been a bit more interested in driving recently . |