Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] more [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had to wait for more congenial work until 1893 , when Mrs Rylands appointed him her librarian . |
| 2 | In the 1930's , at a time when many potteries closed down to wait for more favourable conditions to return , the fifth Josiah Wedgwood decided to build a new factory . |
| 3 | Albert remarks , a touch sniffily : ‘ An evening at the Crazy Horse Saloon will always make for more compulsive viewing than a day in the life of a Benedictine monastery . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ When I compared notes with managers in places like Glasgow and Manchester , I found that women there seemed to go for more restrained , less glitzy clothes . |
| 5 | I remembered the dated way he had of addressing people — though he had been sacked for more serious matters . |
| 6 | This is therefore likely to encourage clinicians to search for more cost-effective procedures . |
| 7 | Some of these workers may have just entered the labour market from school , some may have been made redundant from their previous jobs , some may have been sacked for one reason or another and many will have quit their previous jobs in order to create time to search for more satisfactory ones . |
| 8 | The interview need not be long but Sheila will have discovered that there are people who will listen and she is now more likely to take up any referral she is given for more long term counselling . |
| 9 | One distributor asked for more direct satire to be used and suggested catchlines like ‘ She was not as red as she painted herself . ’ |
| 10 | The judge asked for more psychiatric reports on Borgois before passing sentence . |
| 11 | The most popular ‘ donor car ’ is the Ford Cortina , with Jaguar parts favoured for more powerful vehicles . |
| 12 | Drama is easier to convey than analysis , rather as the political decisions of kings and queens make for more comprehensible history in the schoolroom than do gradual shifts in economic and social patterns . |
| 13 | I understand that criticism and controversy make for more interesting articles . |
| 14 | The caravan interests , on the other hand , argued the case for recognition of caravanning as an acceptable way of life and pressed for more positive approaches by the local authorities . |
| 15 | ( The Tonga Chronicle gave due prominence to the storm the following week , though they might have wished for more careful sub-editing. ‘ $10 damage as islands hit by hurricane ’ read the headline . |
| 16 | My experience in workshops is that people are dying for more honest forms of communication . |
| 17 | The pans are specially designed for more efficient cooking with a unique Thermocopper base — a ‘ sandwich ’ of stainless steel , aluminium and copper — and are ideal for cooking on all heat sources ( except induction ) . |
| 18 | BASIC and its dialects were designed for more limited machines . |
| 19 | ‘ Let us please seek for more stronger motives . ’ |
| 20 | May I appeal for more sixth-form entries for the 14th International Physics Olympiad ? |
| 21 | After verification of the effect of the typesetting code combinations they were substituted for more computer-recognisable codes to simplify further processing . |
| 22 | Employees are seeking to counteract the tedium and monotony of the highly specialised work patterns in mass-production by pressing for more integrated roles , requiring a wider range of skills and operations . |
| 23 | Credit costs are lower than they would be if they had to provide for more bad or difficult debts . |
| 24 | The government 's aim has always been to attract foreign investment ; only its tactics have changed as the tiny city-state ( 639 sq km ) matures and looks for more sophisticated investors to help it achieve the longed-for ‘ developed nation ’ status by 2030 . |
| 25 | Furthermore , some of these sorts of approaches have been modified for more general use with those who are not already suffering a psychiatric disorder . |
| 26 | Second , the system tends to work for more affluent foreign consumers and domestic elites by making life more difficult for the rural poor . |
| 27 | The IWC is not required to work for more humane killing methods , but it can do so by virtue of the fact that it can recommend particular catching methods that are better than others . |
| 28 | Farmers would be required to produce farm management plans , and those who moved towards more extensive systems would be rewarded . |
| 29 | But the kindergarten 's fervour for imperial federation declined during the First World War , when the strength of dominion nationalism became apparent , and they moved towards more informal notions of imperial co-operation . |
| 30 | In English land law , the concept of " seisin " ( settled possession ) lies behind more modern ideas of ownership or possession . |