Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] be more [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly , there is a need for a substantial impact of additional resources , and the NHS will need to be more successful in attracting key staff such as accountants and computer staff . |
| 2 | In places of special risk , such as hospital kitchens serving meals to the very old , the very young , or immuno-suppressive patients or the factory producing large quantities of cooked cold meats , disinfection may need to be more frequent . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't need to be more famous , ’ he said last week after returning to a charmingly comfortable home converted from farm buildings some 15 miles to the north-west of Newcastle . |
| 4 | He did n't need to be more explicit . |
| 5 | If you 're going to , if you 're going to provide the service you have to be careful that it , it is being effective , as effective as it can be , does it need to be more effective and should it be operating all week . |
| 6 | However , the vocabulary for such a review will need to be more subtle and precise , and much less polarized , than that which has dominated discussion of such matters in primary education for the last two decades or so ( Alexander 1984 , 1989 , 1991 ) . |
| 7 | as there will need to be more campaigning before we see the expansionable description in the theatre and that could be |
| 8 | There will , of course , be occasions when the purpose calls for increased specificity of type : we would need to be more knowledgeable about the precise meaning of bronze , for example , in the context of a textbook on metallurgy . |
| 9 | We shall need to be more flexible in the way we handle retirement , and as generous as we can be to what is fortunately a declining proportion of the retired — that is , those who rely entirely on their State pension . |
| 10 | The results of the study of early Anglo-Saxon pottery have yet hardly come near the commercially based model envisaged by Myres , with specialists producing for a consumer market ; social explanations appear to be more appropriate for similarities between vessels , and their movement . |
| 11 | ‘ Traditional Catholic principles , once an obstacle to change in emerging capitalist economies , when they were identified with corporatist ideologies , now appear to be more compatible with various socialist models of development . ’ |
| 12 | Goats appear to be more susceptible to infection than sheep and are thought to play a prominent role in the dissemination of infection where both are grazed together . |
| 13 | The garden walls appear to be more archaic than the house . |
| 14 | With regard to library education , table 2 shows that certain methods appear to be more suitable than others for this type of instruction . |
| 15 | Small group methods such as seminars or demonstrations appear to be more suitable for teaching about online IR . |
| 16 | More female patients had rheumatoid arthritis , but in the remaining three conditions , the proportion of men was greater , reaffirming that men appear to be more likely than women to have ischaemic ulcers . |
| 17 | Teachers appear to be more willing to support the development of a common core curriculum ( Venning , 1979 ; Wicksteed & Hill , 1979 ) : a change that is mirrored by opinions in the ‘ Week by Week ’ column of Education ( 2 Nov. 1979 : 11 Jan. 1980 ) which tries to reflect the current climate . |
| 18 | There were several weak points in this critique and perhaps at the very least it can be argued that foreign films with social themes always appear to be more realistic merely because the subject-matter and personnel are new . |
| 19 | It seems likely that they will make little impact , one reason being that they appear to be more concerned with targeting existing jobs rather than creating genuinely new ones . |
| 20 | Geographers have studied the recent adaptations of local industries , such as Manchester clothing ( Gibbs , 1987 ) , but these appear to be more concerned with the survival of firms , with the same or a smaller workforce , than to do with major ‘ re-industrialization ’ . |
| 21 | Whatever the case , it is not only governments in the Middle East that appear to be more pragmatic now than in the recent past and although anti-TNC rhetoric is still common for public consumption , the line is substantially moderated in regulations for and negotiations with the TNCs . |
| 22 | ‘ My dear , not about your ideas , about your circumstances — they appear to be more unusual . ’ |
| 23 | Slides prepared with this method appear to be more reliable than those made using any previous method , including Tarkowski 's ( 30 ) , in respect of the spreading and maintenance of chromosomes ( 32 ) . |
| 24 | Peptic ulcers appear to be more prevalent in industrialised nations . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Pupils ' work is generally expected to be more practical , the oral being regarded as of the same importance as the written . |
| 27 | If this view is held then it makes sense to borrow funds now at low rates to obviate the need for borrowing later , when funds are expected to be more expensive . |
| 28 | Given also the evidence of the weak performance of younger students with more marginal traditional qualifications , it seems likely that if these students gained entry to higher education on the basis of non-traditional qualifications that their success rates might be expected to be more limited . |
| 29 | On this theory some potencies would contain more shape-specific molecules than others and some would contain longer chain polymers than others , so some potencies might be expected to be more efficacious than others in treatment . |
| 30 | A further advantage of the new index investment trust is that dealings in its shares are expected to be more liquid than in the individual shares of many smaller companies . |