Example sentences of "more [adj] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such information may actually be more understandable to financial statement readers and , therefore , more relevant to their needs . |
| 2 | They are much more understandable to non-computer people than the documents used in conventional data processing , although they are also a good communications aid between computer people . |
| 3 | Photographer Andrew MacPherson , who 's more used to female models peering through the lens for Vogue magazine , was brave enough to take the picture |
| 4 | And among the pilots , a man who 's more used to flying Tornado jets . |
| 5 | The best thing to do with that are you you 're more used to erm You 're more used to opposite over adjacent and things like that are n't you . |
| 6 | A number of writers have recently argued very strongly that the latter is more corrosive to social life . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , even though the concept of NAIRU was considerably more palatable to mainstream macroeconomists than the Friedman natural unemployment rate , it hit up against formidable practical problems . |
| 8 | ‘ We basically believe that the deal with Aegon will be more profitable to existing policyholders . ’ |
| 9 | Fears about the economy also made some employers and politicians , as we shall see , a little more receptive to economic theories and proposals which promised to diminish the ill-effects of the swings of the trade cycle . |
| 10 | While , as has been suggested ( 21 ) , formal training courses may not reduce the tendency for young people to leave the industry it nonetheless has the potential to create a workforce more receptive to new ideas . |
| 11 | Steaming softens and opens the pores so that the skin is more receptive to other products and ingredients . |
| 12 | By the time of the St Petersburg fires both provincial nobility and the main stream of public opinion in the cities were much more receptive to official appeals for loyal support . |
| 13 | It was brutally exploited , profoundly alienated , capable of striking heavy blows against employers and government alike , and infinitely more receptive to socialist ideas than the peasantry had been . |
| 14 | They are manufactured from artificial grass that is sand based so that they are more receptive to well- hit shots . |
| 15 | Fourth , scientific and technical education is more conducive to economic development than other types of education though there are problems of identifying the appropriate mix between these different forms . |
| 16 | Likewise , in relation to companies Maugham J. in In re Vocalion ( Foreign ) Ltd. [ 1932 ] 2 Ch. 196 held that it would be more conducive to substantial justice to permit foreign proceedings , brought by a creditor domiciled overseas , to proceed . |
| 17 | Instead , countries such as the Czech Republic , Slovakia , Hungary and Poland , where conditions are more conducive to good business strategies , are likely to scoop up the funds on offer . |
| 18 | Conditions would become more conducive to entrepreneurial initiative , capital accumulation , the division of labour , technological innovation , and industrialization . |
| 19 | It is possible that this form of political organization is more conducive to non-competitive peaceful behaviour but , as many instances from New Guinea and Amazonia show , it is certainly no guarantee of it . |
| 20 | The decline in the total number of farms in the Cantal LFA , though similar proportionally to the decline in Powys , is almost certainly more due to French national policies for improving farm structures ( including remembrement ) than to aspects of the UK 's LFA , there is much less direct official encouragement to improve agricultural structures ; rather it is the result of the way the LFA Directive is implemented , in particular the HLCA payment system . |
| 21 | In contrast to the increasing emphasis in child welfare on parental responsibility rather than rights , the Conservatives ' policy since 1980 of making the education system far more responsive to parental demands has involved an extension of parental rights . |
| 22 | Maza 's replacement , Fernando Britto Ruiz , 36 , a close personal friend of Gaviria and a lawyer with no previous law enforcement experience , promised to make the DAS more responsive to new forms of criminality . |
| 23 | Republicans after 1871 therefore believed , with some justification , that the country 's diplomatic service was dominated by royalist and Bonapartist influences and that it must be made more responsive to republican ideas . |
| 24 | Instead , their poetry , prose and verse is full of pictures. , He proved much more responsive to Welsh songs and music and , as Gwili 's elder sister sang for him and showed a strong interest in him , he assures Helen that he is ‘ a very harmless fool ’ and that his known views on promiscuity and marriage have not changed . |
| 25 | But such a big change would be desirable only if the structure of local government was reformed , to make it more responsive to local opinion . |
| 26 | To make services more responsive to local needs , a devolved system of decision-making by local service managers would also come into force . |
| 27 | For these reasons , the Conservatives are a little more responsive to widespread expressions of serious doubt on their own backbenches . |
| 28 | Burns and Stalker contrasted the organic structure of management , which is more suitable to conditions of change , with a mechanistic system of management , which is more suited to stable conditions . |
| 29 | As you can see , unless you only sail in very strong winds a wide tailed board is more suited to European conditions . |
| 30 | But in 1.4 we argued that monism is more suited to opaque than transparent styles of writing , and the same point may be made about pluralism . |