Example sentences of "more [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | However , the new orientations of the molecules will be even more absorbing to the — darker ’ directions of the scene , for which the glass will now be even more strongly tinted . |
| 32 | Troy did , however , use one phrase that went a long way to describe the film 's great success , for he spoke of how it illustrated that ‘ an honest documentation of familiar American actualities becomes in a Hollywood film more absorbing than intrigue in Monte Carlo or pig-sticking in Bengal ’ . |
| 33 | You will not easily find a more absorbing box-set of piano discs , or one that will be so frequently played while others languish in dusty oblivion , often examples of the dull respectability Cortot so demonstrably shunned . |
| 34 | Usa alone : The family member becomes progressively isolated from friends and from all social contact as the process of " helping " becomes more absorbing . |
| 35 | Whether or not he would eventually have become chief executive is academic : the move to Provincial seems to have met a need to apply what is generally considered to be the sharp mind and highly effective set of skills of this simultaneously affable and well-organised character to a more absorbing challenge . |
| 36 | Holdaway ( 1977 ) documented the difficulties police managers in Hilton had in overcoming wellaccepted practices in order to introduce more professional police practice in the form of unit beat policing . |
| 37 | Others believe it looks more professional . |
| 38 | ‘ This would be great for travelling — and warm enough for those brutal Russian winters , ’ said Saska , as our star slipped into something decidedly comfortable , and performed a rather more professional twirl than most make-over ‘ guinea pigs ’ can manage . |
| 39 | The FA is to examine ways of encouraging more professional players to take up refereeing after they retire . |
| 40 | The FA is to examine ways of encouraging more professional players to take up refereeing after they retire . |
| 41 | Britain has more professional boxers than the rest of Europe put together . |
| 42 | It might even bring British computer people up to the level of their more professional continental opposite numbers . |
| 43 | That has increased pressure to move to a more professional army . |
| 44 | He asked them to adopt a more professional approach , to harden their attitude and not capitulate when things became tough , as they had sometimes been prone to . |
| 45 | A. M. Fairbairn complained that the clergy had become ‘ more professional than social ’ and the Baptist C. F. Aked attacked ‘ the funny little assistant priest , who has taken the place of the old-fashioned curate ’ , the man who says |
| 46 | John Wilson , Cambridge coach , who was with the victorious Oxford camp last year , considers he has produced a fitter and more professional crew for the four-and-a-quarter-mile . |
| 47 | But after Liverpool 's 3–2 home defeat by Wimbledon Grobbelaar admitted the Anfield side needed to be ‘ more professional ’ in their approach . |
| 48 | Secondly , social work is likely to become more professional as training standards improve . |
| 49 | And it was able to set off on a totally different , and more professional , tack . |
| 50 | As The Smiths grew in commercial stature , so they encountered more and more professional people , especially in America , and these people constantly told the band to think big , to think mega , to evolve into a major international unit . |
| 51 | Which means more directed research to solve real problems ; more scientific conservation , distinguishable from what has gone before ; a better and more professional attitude towards animal welfare and conservation , and a greater willingness by academics and others to get involved professionally ; a greater realisation by charities and other funders , even research councils , that research in conservation and welfare is vital and is often good , original research — without it no advances in society 's legislation are possible . |
| 52 | There are many aids to make plots look more professional : devices for lettering , for drawing smooth curves , for stippling and cross-hatching areas with different patterns . |
| 53 | Thus , it has been suggested that the attempts to re-organise football in a more businesslike manner , to make it more professional , have alienated young working-class fans from their football clubs . |
| 54 | The members of these gangs grow up , some to become law-abiding citizens and others to graduate to more professional and adult forms of criminality , but the delinquent tradition is kept alive be the age-groups that succeed them … |
| 55 | The Association of Carers is campaigning vigorously on their behalf for more professional and financial support . |
| 56 | The installation of a computer system is an excellent opportunity to sweep away prejudice and introduce a more professional approach : good time recording systems , on micro-computer , for example , are often part of a suite of packages linking output to the input needs of the job-costing system . |
| 57 | When building tanks , especially of large proportions , a more professional approach is required as outlined in a recent PFK project on tank building by Audrey Reid . |
| 58 | Similar pipe in black neoprene , polyethylene or rubber can be adapted ; in fact , on a carbon frame the neoprene looks all the more professional . |
| 59 | Writing in PRONED 's 10th annual report , Sir Adrian urges chairmen to adopt a more professional process for selecting NEDs and to give board members a greater say in their appointment . |
| 60 | The simplest method is to use standard screw eyes , as shown opposite , or the more professional ‘ D ’ rings , and then , having fixed these screws about one-third of the way down each side of the frame , attach some nylon picture framing cord between the two . |