Example sentences of "more [adj] [noun sg] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the more specific question to be asked is whether the charges of possession with intent were brought solely for the purpose of retaining the applicants in custody . |
| 2 | One distributor asked for more direct satire to be used and suggested catchlines like ‘ She was not as red as she painted herself . ’ |
| 3 | In particular , the apparent success in the field of invisible earnings may well be revealed after more careful investigation to be an outstanding case of private gain achieved at the expense of considerable social cost . |
| 4 | This will make it possible for more informed advice to be given to parents of mentally handicapped children about how they can best assist their children 's language development . |
| 5 | Lukács argues that the novel can transcend this threat of dispersal through an assertion of a continuous temporality , but at the same time he formulates the process in the structure of a fall : ‘ Once this unity disintegrated , there could be no more spontaneous totality of being ’ . |
| 6 | She looked away again , for her gaze seemed to discomfit Wolff , and said : ‘ I imagine there was never a more interesting time to be a banker than the present . ’ |
| 7 | Some undergraduates seek simply to broaden their horizons and develop analytical skills ; others wish to acquire a more specialised knowledge to be used in a subsequent career . |
| 8 | But there is another type of cat — more common than most people suppose — that has a more violent reaction to being over-petted . |
| 9 | Dublin seems to have a more philosophical approach to is turn , and , as John Hutchinson says , ‘ Here we 're a bit cynical , but its healthy cynicism , we do n't need to prove ourselves ’ . |
| 10 | There was always more daring flying to be done . |
| 11 | It is a more bracing place to be than its rival , but much faded none the less from its days of greatest success in the last century , when it formed one end of the Route Therm ale , a new road system , decreed by the Emperor Napoleon III , which was to link Eaux-Bonnes with Bagnéres-de-Bigorre to the northeast . |
| 12 | You decide to expand the business and buy a more powerful computer to be delivered by a certain date . |
| 13 | But I think it 's absolutely clear that if we have , if we have no sort of terminal erm perhaps it is yes to terminal two at Stansted and I do believe that we must talk and think and act competent er Mr has put various the case but , but we are entitled to we represent Hertfordshire people and we must keep more confident er and it 's interests and I believe there is erm , if we do n't do something , somebody else would be doing that , erm and it 's and , and , and I hope that , that er the , will support and I believe that we will be doing erm so there 's a lot more complex work to be done without erm congestion on the M twenty five , although we 've got the work to put our case but at this very early stage be represented at the enquiry to put the evidence , to put the alternatives is absolutely . |
| 14 | If you think there is a more equitable arrangement to be made , you have only to say so . ’ |
| 15 | By the time transformational rules ( if they are really operating — which is theoretically contentious , as we shall see in due course ) enter the picture , we can expect even more linguistic material to be available for reshaping , re-ordering and relocating . |
| 16 | He became a cult figure in Glasgow , stalking the streets in leather pork-pie hats , wandering into darkened pubs wearing shades , and setting up an unofficial headquarters in the lounge of the St Enoch 's Hotel where he could survey the talent and go about the more important business of being Baxter . |
| 17 | Regan has argued that there is an even more fundamental quality to be added to the variability , ambiguity , confusion and complexity outlined above , namely reciprocity . |
| 18 | On Malta the reduced Axis air activity as the last of the German aircraft departed Sicily allowed more offensive action to be put in hand . |
| 19 | It is not simply a general or universal awareness of God , though it gathers up and refines the more general consciousness to be found in other religions and at the very core of human existence as such . |
| 20 | We are apparently being drawn to the end of time , to an apocalypse ( which will happen on 21/12/2012 ) at which point some of us will achieve a mystical transformation to a more enlightened realm of being . |
| 21 | Is the more optimistic forecast to be made of the dutiful immature girl who has some mildly appreciative responses , knows her books and has paid careful attention to what she has been told to think , but who has few independent ideas and writes with neither firmness nor joy ; or of the mature and independent boy , who may not have studied his notes or perhaps his texts so thoroughly , but who has a sense of relevance , whose judgements are valid , who writes with assurance and betrays in his style … that he has made a genuine engagement with the literature he has encountered ? |
| 22 | This change also allowed a more harmonious treatment to be adopted for the roof of this outshot . |
| 23 | In some areas of the spectrum , more research is needed to enable more efficient use to be made . |
| 24 | At that point it was viewed very much as a short-term arrangement , with more suitable employment to be sought come the winter . |
| 25 | The abolition of slavery in 1970 in Saudi Arabia and Muscat meant that there was no more genuine slavery to be anti . |
| 26 | In the area of paper-based systems , however , there is a more sharp delineation to be addressed . |
| 27 | But there is a more convincing case to be made that what it really relates to is the differing opportunities for men and women in the labour market . |
| 28 | It also enables some additional or more recent information to be obtained . |
| 29 | Thirdly , and perhaps most relevantly to our present concern , there is the more intellectual satisfaction to be had from extending . |
| 30 | Professional championships being held in Switzerland on the same weekend had narrowed the field , but perhaps caused a more local feeling to be retained . |