Example sentences of "be more [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it might be more salutary to ask : what part of Europe ? |
| 2 | Therefore , not only were the more skilled elements of the tasks robotised first to save the wages of the more highly paid skilled labour , but by using robots management could be more certain that a critical weld on a critical component was being done to specification . |
| 3 | I felt — I could not be more certain than that — that when I had treated polio cases on previous occasions I had actually sensed wasting muscles making slight quivers , contracting with the pain of a spasm ; and it was these contractions of muscles which , following normal treatment , so often caused shortening of the leg when the muscles withered . |
| 4 | GRANT FARQUHARSON , Gary Armstong 's deputy at Jed-Forest , has joined Gala so that he can be more certain of playing in First Division rugby . |
| 5 | Moreover , by choosing an option that has been shown to be the best in terms of quality of life days gained general practitioners would be more certain that they were acting with beneficence ; at present , using simply their ‘ unaided intuitive judgment ’ to make such decisions , they can only hope that this is the case . |
| 6 | Let me be more certain before we go trekking over ground we have already covered . ’ |
| 7 | Moreover , the weight of authority on the construction of those two subsections will enable both the landlord and the tenant to be more certain of the legal scope of the power . |
| 8 | I must emphasise that these conclusions are quite tentative , because of the lack of data , hopefully as we carry on , and maybe get more schools involved , we 'll get a bigger set of data , then we can actually do some statistical analysis , and , to be more certain of the results , but it shows general patterns that we 'd expect , so it makes , it shows that it 's quite easy for the schoolchildren , and it fits in very well with their geography courses , and the new G C S E curriculum . |
| 9 | The race itself could hardly be more international |
| 10 | Prof Richard De La Rue , of the university 's department of electronics and electrical engineering , explained yesterday that by the end of the century overseas telephone calls could be as routine as a local call ; there would be more international television channels into living rooms ; and the rapid world of modern business could become even faster . |
| 11 | Here , male network patterns prove to be more close-knit ( as measured by a network strength score : NSS ) than female networks , whereas this contrast is not so marked in the Hammer and is cancelled and partly reversed in the Clonard ( one of the highest-scoring groups for NSS in West Belfast is the young female group in the Clonard , and this largely accounts for the Clonard score in Table 4.1 ) . |
| 12 | He would be more credible if he displayed understanding of these basic issues . |
| 13 | The effect of innovations such as TVEI and CPVE is likely to be more far-reaching than is at present possible to envisage . |
| 14 | The same individual will be more competent in some things , less so in others , and not at all , in still other of the concerns of life which touch him . |
| 15 | The discovery of deaf tutors in a sign language class causes a review of the concept of ‘ the deaf ’ as disabled , since for the first time the student may be in a learning situation where the person whom he feels he should be helping is actually shown to be more competent than he is . |
| 16 | The teacher suggested that Mrs Singh could help by reading with him , Mrs Singh to read one line , Jeetinder the next ; she was evidently unaware of the possibility that Jeetinder 's reading could be more competent than his mother 's . |
| 17 | ‘ Would you suppose she 'd be more competent on the land ? |
| 18 | She was good with her hands and was rather pleased to be more competent than her mother in this . |
| 19 | These tests will also determine whether or not the microorganisms will completely mineralise the waste , as opposed to producing metabolic intermediates which may be more toxic that the original compound . |
| 20 | Recent experimental work has suggested that lipoproteins ( VLDL ) obtained from diabetic animals ( streptozotocin diabetic rats ) may be more toxic to cultured porcine endothelial cells than lipoproteins obtained from control animals . |
| 21 | If a fire involves a chemical compound the chances are it can be more toxic . ’ |
| 22 | However , the potential danger had to be recognised and continued cooperation with the United States would persuade Washington to be more magnanimous and simultaneously protect Japan . |
| 23 | Sign language is almost essential in shops too , but it 's a little less embarrassing because you can be more discreet . |
| 24 | She 'd have to be more discreet in future . |
| 25 | If the action project were succeeding in sustaining at home people who without its services would have been in an institution at an earlier date , then we would expect the action sample clients still at home at six months and 12 months to be more disadvantaged in the possession of factors likely to affect home care potential . |
| 26 | Now Rocky is in , things 'll be more fluid and Brian will be able to work his way into the whole picture . |
| 27 | Yet for others the colour will be more reminiscent of funerals , so will constantly fee morbid . |
| 28 | Artists ' writing on art can naturally be more practical or technical , even in defining their own aims . |
| 29 | Are you physically able to dig a grave , or would it be more practical to have your pet cremated and then bury the ashes ? |
| 30 | On a smallholding it may be more practical to carry silage to the stock in yard or cowshed . |