Example sentences of "[noun] more [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Not surprisingly they have contributed to more of the report directly , found the LEA guidelines more useful for preparing the report , believe the report to be more descriptive and judgmental and think that their schools were less threatened about the review process . |
| 2 | In bed he was further surprised to discover that a person capable of such mental sophistication could retain a physical side more typical of a child of eight . |
| 3 | She 's told him trying to get her back may only make life in Pakistan more difficult for her . |
| 4 | Other new incentives to call have arisen , such as the prospect of meningococcal infection in a child with fever and headache — a fear more intense at night . |
| 5 | This is regarded by the present government , along with its proposals for a national curriculum , as a means of enhancing the quality of education , and making schools more accountable to parents in a system of schooling that it is intended will be more consumer oriented . |
| 6 | The Conservative Group do indeed congratulate the Government for it 's far-sighted legislation to make our schools more accountable to the people they serve . |
| 7 | Such financial and staffing delegation is intended to enable governing bodies and headteachers to deploy their resources in accordance with their own needs and priorities and to make schools more responsive to parents , pupils , the local community and employers . |
| 8 | As the narrator of The Prisoner of Zenda , Rassendyll is at first inclined to be deprecating about the relationships between ‘ the palace at Strelsau or the castle of Zenda and Number 305 Park Lane , W. ’ He is well aware that his brother , Lord Burlesdon , prefers to forget the misbehaviour , in 1733 , of Rudolf the Third of Ruritania and the Countess Amelia , wife of the fifth Earl of Burlesdon and twenty-second Baron Rassendyll , which resulted in the transmission of certain characteristics ( ’ long , sharp , straight noses and a quantity of dark red hair ’ as well as blue eyes rather than the dark hue more common to the Rassendylls ) in several generations of the family . |
| 9 | It appeared to him suddenly that there was a link between her flouted ambition for him and the ethic of a religion more alien to his own thought than he had ever dreamed . |
| 10 | The great grey owl , which is included in category 2 on the basis of similarity of digestion frequency , has a distribution of the digestion more similar to that of category 1 species . |
| 11 | They imagine torments more atrocious for the bakkra ( which is what the bosses are called ) than they have themselves received at the order of mistresses who wear bonnets and corsets and use the civilised manners of Liverpool or Birmingham or London — ; |
| 12 | It says that it has been urging motor manufacturers to make cars more secure since 1961 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | We aim to take an active role in setting up projects which will set standards of excellence and make the arts more accessible by developing a wide ranging programme of arts activities for everyone in the South East . ’ |
| 15 | Russia and the other republics seem to be developing security organizations more analogous to those in the West , with a clear distinction between internal and external security . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Her argument is that by learning to overlook those parts of the world which are easily nameable we can revert to a mode of perception more favourable to successful drawing . |
| 20 | It may not necessarily impair the reliability of data in the computer that you feed in something which will produce a result more favourable to a customer than the store holder intended . |
| 21 | There was no offering more gratifying to him than the trust of adolescents . |
| 22 | Successive Lord Chancellors have gone on record stating their keenness to create a judiciary more representative of the population as a whole . |
| 23 | We also have an over-compassionate bench and judiciary more concerned with the theory of justice than with its practical implementation . |
| 24 | This is , ‘ to assign the work now done at the police station to another agency which has responsibilities and characteristics more consistent with the way we want the work done . ’ |
| 25 | When one is aiming simply to identify an entity for a hearer , in the nature of things one will tend to find enduring characteristics more reliable as the means of doing so , although there will certainly be a proportion of cases where some " occasional " property is just as useful . |
| 26 | In the eighteenth century British consumption , rising steadily at a bit over 2 per cent a year , was more buoyant than the re-export trade , which made the British preferential tariff more advantageous to the planters . |
| 27 | It makes this cell more liveable in . |
| 28 | More NMDA sites would mean a postsynaptic cell more responsive to glutamate and hence more likely to fire . |
| 29 | Robyn herself , needless to say , interpreted this anecdote in a light more favourable to herself , as anticipating her later commitment to progressive causes . |
| 30 | Shock tactics are being used to make young drivers more aware of danger on the roads . |