Example sentences of "[noun sg] more [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It claims this decision makes its widgetry more productive . |
| 2 | Many find the rhythm of a larger horse more comfortable but turn to page 31 to see if you can be converted ! |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Where you get everything so the knitwear or the clothing side more specialized , only had a section . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Is a smooth , legitimate executive succession more desirable than a popular one , however it is achieved ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Interest rates were raised to make the pound more attractive and stop its fall . |
| 12 | Global politics now appears less ordered , the future more uncertain ( at least from a European perspective ) than during the years of Cold War confrontation . |
| 13 | An effective and systematic attempt at forecasting may reduce some of this uncertainty , and render the future more manageable . |
| 14 | Will mankind , even under advanced capitalism , let alone any future more liberated society , ever cease to sing and dance ? |
| 15 | That interpretation of an extent is consistent with Anderson 's arguments , if one assumes that working-class life in Lancashire towns was more stable in the later period and somewhat less harsh , removing the absolute necessity for short-term instrumental calculation , while at the same time making predictions about the likelihood of reciprocal support in the future more reliable . |
| 16 | Never was a labour more arduous , and it was without his former youthful enthusiasm that Picasso began on a great canvas that was to be the first result of his researches . ’ |
| 17 | They will make things there which , if the climate were better and the labour more flexible and less expensive , they would have continued to make in this country . |
| 18 | It is not formally structured as it is in the ballets of other countries where choreographers are more likely to present the traditional dance itself , slightly adapted for the stage with the footwork more complicated . |
| 19 | The Road ( Cochrane Theatre ) : The Talawa Theatre Company 's first offering in its new West End theatre — a piece more atmospheric than effective . |
| 20 | Perhaps with a generous spirit on both sides some sort of accommodation might have been reached but before the possible constraints of the French Union became important there were more ominous developments , first in Vietnam , then in Paris , which would make a full-scale confrontation more likely . |
| 21 | It appeared to him suddenly that there was a link between her flouted ambition for him and the ethic of a religion more alien to his own thought than he had ever dreamed . |
| 22 | That the oaks are personified makes the association more intense . |
| 23 | Cigarette smokers have blood which is stickier than non-smokers ; they also have raised fibrinogen levels and platelet counts which makes the blood more sticky . |
| 24 | These are also ‘ baddies ’ as they make the blood more liable to clot , so the fewer of them you have in your blood the better for your heart . |
| 25 | The great grey owl , which is included in category 2 on the basis of similarity of digestion frequency , has a distribution of the digestion more similar to that of category 1 species . |
| 26 | A customer capable of signing a cheque for £100,000 is unlikely to balk at the extra £10,000 or so , and Aston 's aberrant mid-'80s profitability was due in no small part to the fact that Gauntlett made his car more expensive , in real terms , than it has ever been . |
| 27 | the lowered position : ride height reduced by 15mm at motorway speeds to make the car more aerodynamic . |
| 28 | just as left handers are as a rule more variable in their hand preferences , so too are they less completely lateralised at the cerebral level . |
| 29 | ‘ How have you planned to make your study more effective ? ’ |
| 30 | But in just 10 months Hoddle has made Swindon one of the most feared teams in Division 2 , playing a style of football more attractive , than the rather pedestrian long ball game that many teams prefer . |