Example sentences of "[to-vb] [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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | This is therefore likely to encourage clinicians to search for more cost-effective procedures . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Credit costs are lower than they would be if they had to provide for more bad or difficult debts . |
| 7 | Second , the system tends to work for more affluent foreign consumers and domestic elites by making life more difficult for the rural poor . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | As a sharp contrast , the Beethoven Septet is pure entertainment , music that makes no attempt to grapple with more complex emotional issues . |
| 10 | You should , however , take every opportunity to work with more experienced nurses and so observe procedures you are not familiar with . |
| 11 | But as I was coming up to London to work in more formal circumstances I selected my new skirt , which is somewhat smoother and less worn , together with my new pullover — oh , no , how odd , this is my old pullover — but — ah , now I remember , yes , worn over a cotton shirt — which again is something smooth . |
| 12 | The main task of sensory neurophysiology has been to establish in more precise detail how ‘ the diversity of working produceth diversity of experience ’ — the modern term for which is ‘ coding of sensory information ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ The neighbouring countries would be the first to suffer from more general sanctions against South Africa , and for very understandable reasons have not imposed them themselves . ’ |
| 14 | Macaulay Culkin is a 12-year-old , 4ft 6in licence to print money and Home Alone 2 : Lost In New York is set to pull in more folding bills than it is possible for the human mind to contemplate . |
| 15 | But we will still need 50 per cent of energy to come from more concentrated power sources . |
| 16 | The message is clear and concise and displays no verbosity that one would expect to find in more courtly love scenes . |
| 17 | NGC 2477 is virtually inaccessible from most of Europe , but it is easy to find from more southerly latitudes , as it is close to Zeta . |
| 18 | Here she created opportunities for social workers to train in more advanced skills and set up a variety of support and counselling groups . |
| 19 | Very common in earlier years , toads completely failed to appear in more recent surveys . |
| 20 | AS TENCEL garments begin to appear in more top stores across America , the assault on global markets is spreading wider , and moving faster . |
| 21 | At the May feeing market at Bridgend very few first class servants were on the ground , nearly all present being " haflin lads and young girls " who were in almost every case asking exorbitant wages , but were glad latterly to come to more reasonable terms . |
| 22 | Those members of the catholic population who sought to advance up the class structure had to adjust to more marginal roles among the professional classes . |
| 23 | But Gary Marsh , head of research with the Halifax , the UK 's biggest building society , says it is inevitable that the modest improvement seen in the market over the last couple of months — especially in the South , where sellers have started to adjust to more realistic levels — will be damaged and the date of its recovery put back . |
| 24 | Diana said I looked ill , and needed a holiday at the seaside , but St John thought I ought to concentrate on more serious work , and gave me even more Hindustani exercises to do . |
| 25 | For example , the need to generate income may lead trusts to concentrate on more profitable areas of work at the expense of others , or to discriminate between different categories of patients — private and public , DHA patients and those of GP fundholders — and between patients from one district and those from another . |
| 26 | ICI has chosen not to invest in new HCFCs which have a small ozone depletion potential even though these represent a useful interim measure for speeding up CFC phase-out , preferring to concentrate on more lasting solutions . |
| 27 | Then , work on your calves and ankles so you are ready to concentrate on more advanced leg exercises . |
| 28 | The system also allows parent firms to concentrate on more capital intensive processes . |
| 29 | It 's just opened Mansion House , its first ever nursery , allowing student mums to concentrate on more profound subjects , than feeding bottles and dirty nappies . |
| 30 | But she was beginning to realise that there was no real reason to leap to more worrying conclusions . |