Example sentences of "more [adj] for [adj] [noun] " 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 | Nut oils , despite their very high cost , are becoming more and more popular for special salad dressings where their flavours are superlative . |
| 4 | In fact they are no more adequate for primitive societies than they would have been for any others . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | Meanwhile , the situation could not be more different for Celtic boss Liam Brady , in his first full season as manager . |
| 7 | Such facts should be shared with all employees who will then be aware of residents ' anxieties and be more prepared for unpredictable behaviour . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | But even if we did have some such reason — even if we thought it slightly more natural for right-handed people , who form the majority , to drive on the right — our reasons for wanting everyone to drive on the same side would still be much stronger . |
| 19 | More promising for developing countries , perhaps , are the possibilities of expanding the supply of components . |
| 20 | And Canguilhem 's analysis of the power relations of psychology , which I draw on often in the course of this book , is more valuable for feminist psychology than some narrower , more science-based accounts of the discipline written by women . |
| 21 | According to this theory the earlier generational pairing was abandoned because it led to so much inbreeding that people who practised the gens system were genetically more fit for natural selection and therefore survived better . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 ) . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | Even more streamlined for marine life were the ichthyosaurs ( 'fish lizards ' ) , which , as their name implies , include species that look remarkably fish-like , although perhaps the better analogy would be with the porpoises , a group of mammals that ‘ returned to the sea ’ , and may fill a similar role in modern seas to that of the ichthyosaurs in the Jurassic . |
| 25 | Different combinations of these roles have been found to be more effective for certain tasks than others . |
| 26 | Thus although it is true that " teachers articulate purpose " , this articulation and its achievement will often be the more effective for professional cooperation . |
| 27 | Thicker yarns are more effective for large designs and lighter colours will usually show up a complex design more clearly than small designs , |
| 28 | Nothing is more lethal for certain kinds of meme than a tendency to look for evidence . |
| 29 | The emphases of modern Christology may then be much more problematical for human equality than was the original doctrine . |
| 30 | However , the problems of peripherality are much more severe for other regions which are already suffering the effects of the socalled North-South Divide . |