Example sentences of "[noun] more [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The more senior staff also say they feel more competent to conduct the review , have contributed to more of the report directly , found the LEA guidelines more useful , report that outsiders were more involved in their schools ' review and consider their reports to be more judgmental . |
| 2 | Not surprisingly they have contributed to more of the report directly , found the LEA guidelines more useful for preparing the report , believe the report to be more descriptive and judgmental and think that their schools were less threatened about the review process . |
| 3 | It claims this decision makes its widgetry more productive . |
| 4 | Many find the rhythm of a larger horse more comfortable but turn to page 31 to see if you can be converted ! |
| 5 | Why are the words more vulgar than the behaviour ? |
| 6 | ‘ I can see that for myself , ’ she reminded him , but suddenly her manner was more subdued , her words more cautious . |
| 7 | Rather , it will make both single letters and words more difficult to discriminate by its action at the feature-detector level , and so will have an equal effect on both types of stimuli . |
| 8 | The dictionary , too , has a role to play in making some meanings and words more acceptable than others . |
| 9 | In bed he was further surprised to discover that a person capable of such mental sophistication could retain a physical side more typical of a child of eight . |
| 10 | Dalglish then made two alterations of his own , putting on Roy Wegerle and Stuart Ripley to give his side more attacking options , and within four minutes Blackburn were level . |
| 11 | Where you get everything so the knitwear or the clothing side more specialized , only had a section . |
| 12 | The road became narrower , the drops either side more precipitous — and we sought to engage Abu in conversation , more to dilute his fanatical sense of destination than to practise our halting Indonesian . |
| 13 | Is a smooth , legitimate executive succession more desirable than a popular one , however it is achieved ? |
| 14 | She 's told him trying to get her back may only make life in Pakistan more difficult for her . |
| 15 | Other new incentives to call have arisen , such as the prospect of meningococcal infection in a child with fever and headache — a fear more intense at night . |
| 16 | to make schools more accountable ; |
| 17 | This is regarded by the present government , along with its proposals for a national curriculum , as a means of enhancing the quality of education , and making schools more accountable to parents in a system of schooling that it is intended will be more consumer oriented . |
| 18 | Finally , the national curriculum and testing arrangements would make schools more accountable . |
| 19 | that it rendered schools more accountable ; |
| 20 | The Conservative Group do indeed congratulate the Government for it 's far-sighted legislation to make our schools more accountable to the people they serve . |
| 21 | to make schools more enterprising ; and |
| 22 | Such financial and staffing delegation is intended to enable governing bodies and headteachers to deploy their resources in accordance with their own needs and priorities and to make schools more responsive to parents , pupils , the local community and employers . |
| 23 | The tightening control of schools by politicians ( of right , left and centre ) was made easier to achieve because teachers and parents had made schools more open , more community conscious . |
| 24 | As the narrator of The Prisoner of Zenda , Rassendyll is at first inclined to be deprecating about the relationships between ‘ the palace at Strelsau or the castle of Zenda and Number 305 Park Lane , W. ’ He is well aware that his brother , Lord Burlesdon , prefers to forget the misbehaviour , in 1733 , of Rudolf the Third of Ruritania and the Countess Amelia , wife of the fifth Earl of Burlesdon and twenty-second Baron Rassendyll , which resulted in the transmission of certain characteristics ( ’ long , sharp , straight noses and a quantity of dark red hair ’ as well as blue eyes rather than the dark hue more common to the Rassendylls ) in several generations of the family . |
| 25 | In the 1989 statement on Government expenditure they announced that the Home Office was to receive yet another increase in money to enable it to build two extra prisons , to set up 30 day centres for parole on probation , to recruit 300 more police officers in provincial forces , to employ an additional 1,300 civilians in the police forces and to make the Immigration and Nationality Department more efficient . |
| 26 | It will all without question make the schools and LEAs more accountable , at least in terms of pupil performance , to parents and public . |
| 27 | Interest rates were raised to make the pound more attractive and stop its fall . |
| 28 | Some toxins have been identified , and one makes the blood vessels more leaky , which might account for the production of urticaria . |
| 29 | Men from the company sector might find the jargon of competitive market solutions more appealing , but most recognised they were now entering a new milieu . |
| 30 | Global politics now appears less ordered , the future more uncertain ( at least from a European perspective ) than during the years of Cold War confrontation . |