Example sentences of "more [adj] for [pron] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Loretta had stayed there before , although it was more usual for her to see Bridget when the latter made one of her frequent visits to London . |
| 2 | It also meant that there was little incentive for them to invest in Britain since it was more profitable for them to invest in countries where profit margins were higher . |
| 3 | ‘ No poem of mine was composed under circumstances more pleasant for me to remember than this , ’ Wordsworth wrote : Cottle 's home in Wine Street was probably the setting in which ‘ Tintern Abbey ’ reached written form , and almost at once it was chosen to take a place of honour as the last of the Lyrical Ballads . |
| 4 | Anderson ( 1971 , pp. 125–7 ) argues that the good wages which young people could earn in the cotton towns in the mid-nineteenth century altered the balance between parents and children and put them on more equal terms when they shared a household , and also made it more possible for them to leave the parental home — although boys did this more often than girls . |
| 5 | But when consumers have a choice which includes widely different types of credit arrangements , it may often be more sensible for them to give more weight to the total cost of credit or the amount of each instalment . |
| 6 | Since I 'll be on call anyway , it would seem more sensible for me to fill both roles . ’ |
| 7 | I am not decrying Sara in any way when I say it might have been more sensible for us to choose the leader . ’ |
| 8 | It would be much more sensible for you to marry a woman with money . |
| 9 | Smythe had dispensed with help and advice and was enjoying the writing , while the free speech folk had decided it was more appropriate for them to publish a cartoon balancing Oliver 's offensive one . |
| 10 | Er a a and then say , well we can take that on board for you if you like but it might be more efficient for you to do the possessions because the civil engineer Leeds , actually is part of your organization a a and it might be more appropriate for you to get those possessions in , for you to decide whether or not you want one big bang o o o of a week 's possession or , or you want to do it i in four hour no-trains periods for the next three years . |
| 11 | Would n't it be more appropriate for you to concentrate on the spiritual welfare of your people ? ’ |
| 12 | This may confirm Joan 's fear of greed and make it more frightening for her to know about her own . |
| 13 | The threat of another war only made it more urgent for him to preserve his symbolic status , so that he could be the French people 's supreme recourse should catastrophe strike once again . |
| 14 | It was daft of their business partner to say every Kray fan will want the game and even more incredible for him to add : ‘ Neither Reg or Ron would ever condone crime . ’ |
| 15 | Surely as a policeman it would be more useful for you to take a law degree … |
| 16 | But when the church has spoken in these terms , saying in effect that women should not be discriminated against in the world , it becomes all the more problematical for it to appear suddenly to turn around and declare that women may not be ordained in the church ! |
| 17 | It is more important for them to see all round so they can spot hunting animals in plenty of time to run away . |
| 18 | It is more important for them to defer their childbearing and to compress it into a short space of time in their married life . |
| 19 | It was n't crucial at this stage to get her to step on to the glove repeatedly ; it was more important for her to develop the right attitude to the whole process . |
| 20 | to see if there are any other areas which may be even more important for us to address . |
| 21 | It may perhaps be objected that the distance may prevent the pupils of the Hospitals from attending the Lectures of the Veterinary Professor — I will first answer to that — that it would be dangerous for the progress of the Veterinary science to give them too free admission into the College — because it might give a disgust to the residing pupils from their application to the Veterinary Medicine and many of them would change their mind and apply themselves to the anatomy of the human body , thinking that it would be more honorable for them to cure the human species than Animals , this happened in France and the best Veterinary pupils are now Physicians and Surgeons to the human species — this prejudiced ideal would inculcate itself into the minds of young men , the more so as the Veterinary Science is still in its Infancy in this Country , and in an abject state , for this reason it would be equally dangerous to permit residing pupils to attend medical or anatomical lectures , of the human body , or to frequent Hospitals : Therefore a certain distance from the Town would be more useful than otherwise for the progress of the Veterinary Science . |
| 22 | Later , however , he came to realize that it was more accurate for him to say Truth is God than it was to say God is Truth . |
| 23 | ‘ It will make it much more difficult for me to convince member states to accelerate the removal of barriers , ’ he says . |
| 24 | I do n't feel whole , and labels just make it so much more difficult for me to understand myself . |
| 25 | This time the supervision was stricter , and it became more difficult for me to pass my butter ration on to someone else , to pour Ovaltine down the sink behind the matron 's back , or to dispose of extra food by means of the lavatory . |
| 26 | She exhorted him to ‘ follow your little heart ’ ; it was much more difficult for her to do so , and it showed . |
| 27 | I 'd lastly like to say a thank you to Kevin , because I think , as a man , it is obviously more difficult for him to broach this subject , and he 's been pursuing this through APEX through for a very long time , and has worked extremely hard , so I 'd like to say thank you to him , and thank you to you now for taking the message back home . |
| 28 | Moscovitch argued that if the subject uses a linguistic strategy , that is compares the names of two letters , then it should be more difficult for him to discriminate between acoustically ( e.g. I-Y ) than visually ( e.g. V-U ) similar letter pairs . |
| 29 | These factors continued to make it more difficult for him to provide the separateness and space that Liddie needed if she were to develop her limited confidence in herself as a mother . |
| 30 | Er that help is , there are fewer to draw from , i it 's also far more difficult for them to spare the time , the pressures on the academics are considerable nowadays . |