Example sentences of "more [adj] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Payment , it seems , is acceptable for professionals , but its legitimacy is more controversial for other ranks . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In fact they are no more adequate for primitive societies than they would have been for any others . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | More promising for developing countries , perhaps , are the possibilities of expanding the supply of components . |
| 12 | ‘ The persistent concern to increase councillor calibre through reorganization ’ , he says , ‘ makes it equally clear that the essential object of reorganization has been to make local government more functional for dominant interests , by restructuring it so as to facilitate their direct control of its expenditure and interventions ’ ( 1979 , p. 245 ) . |
| 13 | Indeed Dearlove ( 1979 , p. 245 ) maintains that part of the case for reorganizing local government in 1972 and creating larger units was ‘ to make local government more functional for dominant interests ’ ( that is , less accessible to working-class representation ) . |
| 14 | Different combinations of these roles have been found to be more effective for certain tasks than others . |
| 15 | Thicker yarns are more effective for large designs and lighter colours will usually show up a complex design more clearly than small designs , |
| 16 | Nothing is more lethal for certain kinds of meme than a tendency to look for evidence . |
| 17 | However , the problems of peripherality are much more severe for other regions which are already suffering the effects of the socalled North-South Divide . |
| 18 | ( Is it that good colour vision at small visual angles has been more important for frugivorous monkeys than for our own recent ancestors ? ) |
| 19 | What is more disturbing for small firms is the propensity of large companies to increase the length of credit notes when their own liquidity is tight , thereby transferring part of their financial burden onto suppliers . |
| 20 | Charity at 4 per cent interest was nothing to be ashamed of in the nineteenth century and it was much more commonplace for unsatisfactory tenants to be evicted than is the case today . |
| 21 | And , ironically again , the increasing specialization of Greek scholarship made it increasingly more problematic for German writers to draw on Greek literature and its topoi as wholeheartedly as they once had . |
| 22 | Certain developments in seventeenth-century science did prove more difficult for Catholic authorities to assimilate . |
| 23 | Does the press narrow popular conceptions of rape and make it more difficult for raped women to obtain justice ? |
| 24 | There was FDP resentment at Adenauer 's domination of government , and over his consideration of an electoral reform which would make it even more difficult for small parties to be elected to the Bundestag . |
| 25 | Starting and staying in business is more difficult for certain types of people than it is for others . |
| 26 | The increase in cattle killing was due to the sale-voucher systems making it more difficult for casual thieves to keep or dispose of stolen animals . |
| 27 | They also made it more difficult for temporary residents or visitors to become permanent residents . |
| 28 | It became more difficult for devout persons to explain why unforeseen disaster should overtake a religious group . |
| 29 | The role of the noise is to make it more difficult for particular types to unambiguously signal their information . |
| 30 | It seems to be more difficult for human beings to apprehend the gravity of harms which take several years to manifest themselves . |