Example sentences of "more [adj] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The MB86931 has claimed performance of 42 VAX MIPS and operates at 40MHz ; it is smaller and more cost-effective for higher speed working than the predecessor MB86930 , and useful as a controller for office automation and factory automation equipment . |
| 2 | Payment , it seems , is acceptable for professionals , but its legitimacy is more controversial for other ranks . |
| 3 | And it 's much more usual for that kind of thing to happen , so that you are more likely to get a , a minister who has a very good idea about how erm the civil service functions because he 's been part of it . |
| 4 | The areas involved are small , but there used to be many unsightly corners in the mining villages near St Austell and , by making improvements here and there , English China Clays has done much to make life more pleasant for local residents . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ Removing the boundary wall would make the site much more pleasant for both parties . ’ |
| 6 | The economic recession of the late 1970s has meant not only that government funds have become even more scarce for such policies but also that government and public concern has shifted away from issues of inequality to concentrate on the problems of productivity and economic growth . |
| 7 | Nut oils , despite their very high cost , are becoming more and more popular for special salad dressings where their flavours are superlative . |
| 8 | In fact they are no more adequate for primitive societies than they would have been for any others . |
| 9 | An electric fan will cool the engine but a thermostatically controlled switch A mechanical fan is more reliable for long slogs as it can move more cooling air |
| 10 | Meanwhile , the situation could not be more different for Celtic boss Liam Brady , in his first full season as manager . |
| 11 | Such thoughts are usually considered to be unnecessarily morbid , although the subject is probably more painful for younger people than those who more closely and personally face their own decline and death . |
| 12 | Such facts should be shared with all employees who will then be aware of residents ' anxieties and be more prepared for unpredictable behaviour . |
| 13 | This trend has been even more marked for rural areas ; figure 6.1 shows a decline of some 29 per cent in passenger journeys by rural buses between 1965 and 1975 . |
| 14 | These social-class differences are even more marked for younger husbands , where the unskilled manual rate is 5.5 times as great as the incidence in the professional category . |
| 15 | Where another agency has the information required by the court , for example , it will obviously be more sensible for that agency to prepare the report . |
| 16 | Not only does it normally require an exceptionally large financial injection , but the rules of company law are considerably more demanding for public companies than for private ones or partnerships . |
| 17 | Implicit in this last argument is another logical relation which is more interesting for this question than that between ought and is : the relation , that is to say , between ought and can . |
| 18 | The official Central Authority view was that their prices should fully reflect costs and that the ‘ all-electric ’ home was not a practicable proposition , since solid fuel would be more economical for continuous space heating . |
| 19 | Fourth , opportunities for further in-service training should be more generous for further education teachers than for those in schools and , in any event , they should be at least on the same scale . |
| 20 | The separation of spheres was much more rigid for middle class women than for working class women , for although both were excluded from the public sector in terms of political citizenship and legal rights , working class women did engage in paid employment and there was a certain ambivalence on the part of politicians and policy makers as to their behaviour in this respect . |
| 21 | The process is much more serious for primitive society , however , for getting older in this sort of world is not just a question of securing certain basic legal rights as it is for us , but is fundamentally concerned with acquiring prestige . |
| 22 | The term ‘ permanent ’ is something of a misnomer , for the content of any pasture is constantly changing as conditions become more favourable for one species and less for another ; it applies only to the fact that a pasture remains in grass for an indefinite period . |
| 23 | The SMILE ( Secondary Mathematics Individualised Learning Experiment ) team have addressed this issue and suggest ways in which their own materials may be amended to make them more appropriate for bilingual pupils . |
| 24 | It is anticipated that this type of hearing will be much more appropriate for small claims and will prove to be fairer , simpler and cheaper . |
| 25 | The Russian delegation objected that the new approach was more appropriate for developing countries , and called for its newly established Agency for International Co-operation and Development to share authority with the World Bank in co-ordinating aid for Russia . |
| 26 | Its report , Business Legal Structures , says that the small business sector has undergone a transformation but the legal formats available , proprietorship , partnership , or limited liability company , are outdated and more appropriate for big business . |
| 27 | As such , they may be more appropriate for urban areas , where most of the housing in any area tends to be of a similar age and type and the blanket effect of the area-based policy will at least have some logical basis ( although even in inner cities problems do not necessarily come in a spatially concentrated form — see Smith 1979a ) . |
| 28 | Connected means , as in figure 2 , or box plots , are more appropriate for these data . |
| 29 | These latter examples may be more appropriate for those countries or regions with large rural populations or that do not have a well-developed system of local educational institutions comparable to the community colleges , technical institutes or the like that are found in Australia , Britain , Canada , Denmark , and the US . |
| 30 | ‘ But it 's more unusual for older people to get it . |