Example sentences of "to be more [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it 's my view , you see , that this ought to be more central to our planning and thinking about these things in allocating erm what are admittedly scarce resources . |
| 2 | In patients with IBS the gut seems to be more reactive to various stimuli when compared with controls . |
| 3 | Equally , if farmers are to be more subject to market forces , the planning system must be flexible and sensitive enough to enable farmers to diversify . |
| 4 | Robert resolved to be more respectful to Hasan . |
| 5 | It is the intention and the spirit of the Act to encourage them to be more accountable to their Boards of Governors , and , to a large extent , to become self-sufficient within the limits of their given finance and income generated by legitimate business activities . |
| 6 | Public services have become more marketing orientated and have to be seen to be more accountable to their ‘ publics ’ ( e.g. the police service which is now more public relations conscious than in the past ) . |
| 7 | By this stage , the pursuer 's agents ought to be prepared for Proof and ought , therefore , to be more receptive to arguments concerning actual weaknesses in their case than may have been true at an earlier stage . |
| 8 | They now grow Whitbread Goldings Variety , developed to be more resistant to wilt than the traditional East Kent type . |
| 9 | By contrast , perceptions that verge on being attitudes are likely to be more resistant to change and more dependent upon individuals ' partisan backgrounds — their pre-existing sense of party identification , and their use of partisan news sources such as right-wing ( or leftwing ) papers . |
| 10 | Nutrients are still at a premium here , so the plants form an association with a fungus pezzizella ericae which enables the heather to have a higher nitrogen uptake and to be more resistant to elements of heavy metals found in the soil . |
| 11 | This is because thick lithosphere will tend to be more resistant to the effects of heat conduction and penetrative magmatism . |
| 12 | This might be seen to be more relevant to users but the trade-off would have to be made against the possible effects on the date of publication . |
| 13 | Preference shares , particularly redeemable preference shares , are sometimes considered to be more akin to loan stock than share capital . |
| 14 | And as far as this freedom for schools , I am rather more interested in freedom for parents , and things like open enrolments seem to me to be more akin to how far the au pair can drive the Volvo in twenty minutes than any real choice for parents . |
| 15 | But the , the link between sex and reproduction is always likely to be more critical to a woman So , so , so you see th th the point I 'm making is these insights seem to me to be to have a kind of relevance to er women 's experience of sex that is some ways greater than it is to male males can you know once they 've done their fertilizing work , they 're , they 're really through as far as erm as far as biology is concerned , not perhaps as far as social . |
| 16 | If police officers have more protection they are going to be more helpful to the public who will , in turn , be more confident . ’ |
| 17 | The leapfrogging process which resulted meant that as a wage round progressed , later settlements tended to be more favourable to the unions and also more costly to the employers . |
| 18 | ‘ The Federal Reserve needs to be more attentive to the need to avoid tipping this economy into a recession , ’ he warns . |
| 19 | If , on the other hand you are married to a man who , on the surface at least , appears to be more attentive to his mother 's needs than to yours , try not to become upset and regard her as a threat or a rival , and avoid jumping to the conclusion that your marriage is a failure and that you are unloved . |
| 20 | In Harrods book department the penis of a Manhattan black photographed by raking light seems to be more offensive to the general public than are close-ups of Madonna 's private parts . |
| 21 | Their use is therefore better suited to environments such as the rhizosphere/soil , protected crops , or tropical conditions ( eg paddy fields ) , where the water potential is likely to be more amenable to spore germination and growth . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He seemed to be more content to be just a consultant to everyone in the music business than actually being a pioneer . |
| 24 | Although moods are likely to be important in driving , subjective risk as defined in the previous chapter appears to be more similar to concepts such as emotional stress or arousal as they are used in the memory literature . |
| 25 | recipients likely to be more susceptible to , or prefer , the message to be verbally delivered |
| 26 | Thus , females tend to be more susceptible to the pressures of the market and the forces of consumerism than males . |
| 27 | I would say early schizophrenia — the paranoid type that older people seem to be more susceptible to . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | A reorientation of agricultural research to be more appropriate to the technical , social and economic situation of disadvantaged regions is necessary . |
| 30 | For the music to be led by a worship band seems to me to be more appropriate to our culture . |