Example sentences of "more [adj] [prep] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | He recommended some training for hotel staff to be a bit more professional in their attitude . |
| 2 | The endemic mammals are fewer but even more striking in their differences from their nearest relatives in the Oriental or Australian regions . |
| 3 | Pollutions are rarely dramatic events in themselves , but are often more striking in their consequences . |
| 4 | A larger lexicon provides a greater coverage of English and therefore can be used to provide indexed definitions that are more representative of their verbal originals . |
| 5 | In 1977 , the average pay gap was still almost as large — 58 per cent at the geometric mean — but the women in jobs were more representative of their generation and more dissimilar to men in terms of work experience and education . |
| 6 | Octopi and squid are cephalopods , a division of the molluscs which are far more advanced in their reproductive behaviour . |
| 7 | The closer men get to God the nastier they get : the more judgemental , the more punitive , the more murderous in their determination to have got God right , and everyone else to have got God wrong . |
| 8 | Bereaved men often talk about their social problems being rather more connected with their homes than outside them . |
| 9 | When DUP spokesmen give their view of the conflict , which is that the rioters were clearly in the wrong but their actions were understandable , and that the fault really lay with the leadership of the RUC , the loyalists seem to hear only those parts which marked the DUP as being more supportive of their acts than was the OUP . |
| 10 | They will find another activity where athletes are more receptive to their requirements . ’ |
| 11 | Similarly , managers and directors appeared to share an equivalent value orientation to the fans and were more receptive to their opinions . |
| 12 | Consequently , the recommendations made by , for example , the Marre Committee are much more specific in their treatment of the problem . |
| 13 | You 'd think people would be more tolerant with their own family . ’ |
| 14 | Small organisations are usually staffed by individuals who are more innovative in their ideas , and more responsive to change . |
| 15 | Mrs Frizzell had no need to remind her that her neat , conforming sons-in-law were far more popular in their home town of Tollemarche than Mrs Stych 's own son , Hank . |
| 16 | ‘ Maybe people will be more careful of their children after they 've read it , ’ suggested Dorothy hopefully , and then added : ‘ She 's nothing but a social climber , anyway . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It should make them even more careful about their monitoring , ’ Abrahams says . |
| 18 | The policies require the support of the local authority and proper resourcing but they provide an ideal framework for schools seeking to become more responsive to their pupils and the Communities they serve . |
| 19 | This , the government believes , will make schools more directly and effectively accountable to parents , and more responsive to their criticisms and wishes . |
| 20 | The large urban local authorities which remain the last bastion of Labour power have tried to undercut New Right attacks by improving the efficiency and quality of their services , and becoming more responsive to their users ( Fenwick 1989 ; Young 1991 ) . |
| 21 | In the first half of the figure deaf recall effects are no more different from their baseline silent recall than are hearing-bilinguals ' . |
| 22 | Boys in an autocratic group were more dependent on their leader , and submissive ; their hostility was towards each other . |
| 23 | LAMP and RAMP have found that because pupils rarely get the chance to use their own initiative , they become even more dependent on their teacher for direction . |
| 24 | ‘ Particularly after the privatisation of the buses , people are even more dependent on their cars than they were before , ’ he said . |
| 25 | Kyung Wha Chung has recorded both of these central concertos before , but in this generous and attractive coupling these EMI performances not only have the benefit of more modern sound but are more spontaneous in their expressive warmth . |
| 26 | Dogs are generally more expressive of their feelings than their feline protagonists . |
| 27 | Their poison has the same origin as that of the snakes — modified saliva — but the animals are much more primitive in their wounding mechanism . |
| 28 | He also allays fears that such organisms might find applications in biological warfare since they tend to be target specific and would probably be more harmful to their producers than to their recipients in the light of the necessary sophisticated transmission technology that would be economically unfeasible . |
| 29 | Equally inevitable were the moments of sadness , made more painful by their sheer incongruity . |
| 30 | Tradeoffs between different sectors of the economy have also become more expensive and more painful in their consequences . |