Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] be more [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has to be more traumatic than if we were slowly introduced to the idea . |
| 2 | There are good reasons why it has to be more expensive than in the USA . |
| 3 | It also becomes more specific and for the higher potencies the remedy selection has to be more accurate for the remedy to work . |
| 4 | At the beginning of his next speech , after Sirith 's defensive demurral , he has to be more specific , and perhaps more generous : ( " I will give you a mighty gift , many a pound and many a mark , warm clothing and warm shoes . " ) |
| 5 | There can be little doubt as to what in the way of topics and register the Host expects in the Monk 's Tale ; he concludes his observations on Melibee with : and continues with a description of the Monk that matches with the impression " Chaucer " claims to have of the Monk in the General Prologue , of a " " manly man " " , straining at the bounds of what is allowed to a monk ( and not dissimilar to the monk of the Shipman 's Tale ) : After nearly a hundred stanzas of the Monk 's tragedies , the Host is prepared to give him a second chance , as " Chaucer " had , but feels this time he has to be more specific as to what is wanted : But as soon as the Monk speaks we have the opportunity to see , firstly , that his reaction does not suggest he is flattered or pleased by the Host 's appraisal of him , and secondly that he sounds quite different from the bold and thrusting " man 's man " that " Chaucer " and the Host would make of him : Note how the Monk 's desire to offer literature that " " sowneth into honestee " " anticipates Chaucer the prosist 's retraction of the tales " " that sownen into synne " " . |
| 6 | Foundation remains show the ground plan but reconstruction of the superstructure has to be more speculative . |
| 7 | It means that the initial education of teachers has to be more open than in the past to the understanding of those who employ new teachers . |
| 8 | Marketing is the one function of management which has to be more concerned with what is going on outside the organization than with what is happening internally . |
| 9 | The role of government has to be more positive . |
| 10 | That business and the state have spent so much effort in explaining why employment has to be more flexible is testament to their previous success in establishing lifetime employment as a longstanding cultural practice . |
| 11 | If you are drawing faces , then , of course , control has to be more precise than in something more loose , like a landscape , where overall effect is sometimes more successful than delineation . |
| 12 | Erdinger says it uses more than 50 per cent wheat , but declines to be more specific . |
| 13 | ‘ The Federal Reserve needs to be more attentive to the need to avoid tipping this economy into a recession , ’ he warns . |
| 14 | However , a sociological explanation needs to be more holistic than this , and it is not normally sufficient merely to regard the events leading up to a strike as its cause . |
| 15 | It needs to be more ragged . ’ |
| 16 | Labour needs to be more persuasive about wealth creation , says Will Hutton |
| 17 | While the relevant authorities should adapt to make wives ’ lives easier , the public also needs to be more open-minded . |
| 18 | A successful corporate financier needs to be more commercial , more extrovert and more ambitious than the average number cruncher , with leadership skills for when he — and it is still very much a male preserve — heads a team . |
| 19 | A successful corporate financier needs to be more commercial , more extrovert and more ambitious than the average number cruncher |
| 20 | At primary level , the range of material for exploration needs to be more diverse : myth , legend , fairy stories , poems . |
| 21 | We have examined the various models and explanations of leadership , from the traditional concern with leaders and their subordinates to a more recent approach which suggests that leadership needs to be more enlightened and to allow individuals to develop their own leadership skills . |
| 22 | The driving system needs to be more flexible . |
| 23 | He needs to be more careful . |
| 24 | Moreover , cancer associated with strictures tends to be more advanced ( 76% stage D , 24% A and B ) than that which does not produce strictures ( 18% stage D , 59% A and B ) . |
| 25 | The father tends to be more affectionate in his relationship with his daughter , and the mother is more affectionate towards her son . |
| 26 | My work tends to be more durable than artistic . |
| 27 | However , the radius of commuting tends to be more circumscribed , so that conflict between local residents and incoming urban dwellers has taken other forms . |
| 28 | In practice , the model tends to be more stable inverted , since the rotor downwash is not corrupted by the drag of the fuselage . |
| 29 | Some information can be gleaned , although it tends to be more sketchy . |
| 30 | Equally a group with a wider range of talents in its midst tends to be more effective than a group with a narrow range of talents . |