Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [vb mod] be more " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the latter case I would be more likely to give you options and a reason , by saying : ‘ Would you mind moving slightly . |
| 2 | I did n't approve of what he was doing , but if I refused his money I would be more and more visible , so I took it , and when he had gone off in relief back towards the dining car I gave it to the barman . |
| 3 | In future she would be more careful . |
| 4 | However , for the purpose of discussion in this chapter it will be more appropriate to preserve the distinction between them . |
| 5 | He 'd be a good man to have on your side — but as an enemy he 'd be more lethal than the Scorpion of his star-sign . |
| 6 | In the context of nurses and health visitors returning to work it might be more useful to look at the ways in which regrading affects your application and appointment , and to provide you with general advice on what to expect from employers in due course . |
| 7 | In the short run it may be more realistic to build upon the commitment of formal and informal voluntary service which already exists among the elderly . |
| 8 | If you resist any temptation to nap in the daytime you will be more able to get to sleep at your next bedtime . |
| 9 | As a consequence she may be more likely to mate with him than with a male who is less explicit about his state . |
| 10 | Very congested skin can not absorb essential oils efficiently anyway , but when used in the bath and in general body massage they will be more easily absorbed through the softer skin of the abdomen , insides of the thighs and upper arms . |
| 11 | First , if one company has an inspired management team it may be more productive to allow this team to run both businesses . |
| 12 | But if you only had a small place it 'd be more economical to have labour than it would to buy paying out thousands of pounds for machines and |
| 13 | ‘ We 've done some sums and we reckon that if you use the phone for more than one and half minutes per day it will be more expensive , ’ says a west London cellphone dealer . |
| 14 | Surely as a policeman it would be more useful for you to take a law degree … |
| 15 | On the basis of the above analysis by the Court it might be more accurate to say that the test is a commercial one but that it relates not to the transfer of ownership of enterprises , but to the transfer of economic or organisational activities . |
| 16 | If you wait for inspiration it may be more difficult for the Careers Service to give constructive advice . |
| 17 | Each night he would be more red-eyed , hardly able to drag his feet with tiredness , his face caked white with lime , lime in his eyes and ears and nostrils , his throat dry , lime thick through his hair and clothes and when he sat down to the table he felt as if he were eating lime . |
| 18 | After last night he would be more anxious than ever to have their journey over . |
| 19 | With the single daily dose it may be more appropriate to assay the concentration eight or 12 hours after administration of the dose or to accept that a lower trough ( predose ) concentration may be more appropriate . |
| 20 | And hopefully the business as a whole in a competitive environment they can be more responsive more flexible to new requirements as they come along . |
| 21 | It is generally price advantageous to specify powders although in use they may be more difficult to control and dose . |
| 22 | Taking this kind of argument it might be more desirable to improve the lot of someone who has had a considerable amount of resources , but now in old age has very little . |
| 23 | In Re Hammond & Waterton ( 1890 ) 62 LT 808 the court said that if a building dispute were referred to an umpire who was a barrister the procedure would be more likely to be an arbitration , and that if the umpire were a quantity surveyor it would be more likely to be a valuation . |
| 24 | I think they 've built They 've opened London offices , many of them , if those offices grow so they acquire the sort of breadth and depth of experience in the relevant areas that the big firms have got and at the moment er they may not have , then of course they 'll be more and more competitive . |
| 25 | As it is not obvious that fluctuations in the galaxy distribution should exactly match those of the mass density field ( for example , if galaxies form at the peaks of the mass-density field they will be more correlated than the mass ) , we allow the variance of the two distributions to vary on large scales by the square of a bias factor , b , defined as |
| 26 | The personnel manager felt that if she was working in a establishment with a lower turn-over she would be more democratic because there would be more time . |
| 27 | As officials move up the hierarchy they may be more involved in policy advice rather than managing budgets or people . |
| 28 | If they are encouraged to be analytical in a positive and practical sense they will be more able to take a longer-term and reforming perspective . |
| 29 | You mentioned people suffering from stress , presumably if there were an attack they would be more susceptible to stress then ? |
| 30 | In some sense it will be more difficult because you will not be able to ask for further details . |