Example sentences of "that is more [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is the relation of the rate of weight gain and the size of the territory that is more relevant here ( Figure 7.7b ) . |
| 2 | They do so — this comment applies especially to new clause 10 — in language that is more absolute then justified or practical . |
| 3 | However , if there is one occupation in life that is more pointless than others it is regretting the past . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You can learn all the moves and practise until you 're silly , ’ he warns , ‘ but in the end you need to put those moves together in a manner that is more efficient and effective than anybody else has done before . ’ |
| 5 | The façade is more classical than is usual in Prague , but it is nevertheless true Baroque — a Baroque that is more used to being displayed in the wider streets of Vienna . |
| 6 | Xerox Corp has some good news for Utica in upstate New York , a town that is more used to news of plant closures : on Maundy Thursday , Xerox announced that it plans to locate a new manufacturing subsidiary in Utica , which could create as many as 300 new jobs , although it will start with only 50 ; the new plant , called the Low Complexity Manufacturing Group Inc , will supply simple subassemblies for integration into Xerox copier and printer products , and could also bring back work to the US from foreign suppliers , as well as saving Xerox $2m a year . |
| 7 | In addition , allocative efficiency may be improved if the shift to an M-form of internal organization leads to behaviour that is more profit-oriented . |
| 8 | If you have chosen to live in a home that is more expensive that the Department would normally pay and your circumstances change , or the people or the organisation helping to fund your care can no longer help , we will need to reassess your needs . |
| 9 | HOLLOWAY women 's prison now has a nickname that is more telling than any it may have had in the past the Hilton . |
| 10 | Critics of the Peacock Committee have been happier to work within a framework of change that is more limited than that envisaged by the Committee . |
| 11 | In essence , the IRA 's Army Council is relatively immune to seemingly minor political advances in Ulster or the underlying political vacuum that is more apparent now . |
| 12 | Rather , it is the influence of the German tradition that is more apparent in ‘ Enigma ’ — particularly through Brahms , who used variation forms in many of his finest works . |
| 13 | It will take time for the implications of his work to be properly assimilated and understood ; the process involves transposition from a cultural context that is more remote than the French . |
| 14 | It comprises painters of very different kinds , who all , in their work , are animated by a vision of life that is more internal , more popular and more poetic . |
| 15 | Beasts and birds represent not only the instinctive forces of our being , but also a way of knowing the world that is more extensive than our usual one . |
| 16 | It is the symbolic violence of the teenager on the terraces , which spills over into the odd affray with visiting gangs that is more typical than the premeditated violence of disturbed or habitually aggressive individuals , who see football as a kind of arena for serious assault with little risk of arrest . |
| 17 | ‘ To the extent that the proposals encourage the inclusion of better information in a form that is more accessible and intelligible to users , it is a useful step forward , ’ said Touche Ross . |
| 18 | 3 A number of changes are advocated to secure a civil service that is more accountable to Parliament and more amenable to the control of ministers . |
| 19 | Hon. Members will have an opportunity to debate the Bill , but , whatever happens , it is far better to have a system that is more accountable to local people and that will , we hope , put an end to some of the ridiculous mismanagement , inefficiency and wasting of money that has gone on for far too long . |
| 20 | Parents as well as their children need to be aware that the relationship between them is changing and developing into one that is more equal and reciprocal . |
| 21 | One reason for their existence , for instance , may be what has been described above : the fact [ sic ] that writing establishes a different kind of relation between the word and its referent , a relationship that is more general and more abstract , and less closely connected with the particularities of person , place and time than obtains in oral communication . |
| 22 | Previous work has used this characteristic to suggest a sub-lithospheric component that is more akin to MORB than to OIB , whereas the Os isotope data seem to favour an OIB-like component . |
| 23 | I do not suppose that the ultimate mental component of the universe is some spooky , all-embracing mind that is more real than flesh-and-blood people , nor that we should treat the state or community as a real person with a distinct interest or point of view or even welfare of its own , nor that we can ask the range of questions about a state 's principles — for example whether it accepted them freely or was misled or misunderstands them — that we can ask about aspects of a real person 's moral life . |
| 24 | Edward 's comment is clearly correct , and could be extended : Hopkins 's letters and notebooks , for instance , contain a weight of original theorizing that is more substantial and more interesting than much recent writing . |
| 25 | In the adventure of everyday life , on the other hand , the characters are affected by the events ( however fantastic ) that befall them , and the progression of changes fixes the order of events , giving a materiality to space as the scene of transformation and metamorphosis : ‘ Space becomes concrete and saturated with a time that is more substantial . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Careful consideration should be given to re-marketing the restaurant by introducing a style of menu that is more appropriate in style , content and price for the identified target markets , ’ Horton says . |
| 27 | He can not , however , investigate a complaint that is already subject to court proceedings , one that is about a State social security benefit or a dispute that is more appropriate for investigation by another regulatory body . |
| 28 | Engels in his letters does offer a concept of ideology that is more amenable to Stark 's categorization — there is even a sense of morality about ‘ false consciousness ’ and ‘ prejudice-begotten thought ’ that locates the responsibility for ideology in the individual . |
| 29 | Saying that Americans are obsessed with spectator sport is a bit like saying that life in Japan is bliss : something that is more true for men than for women . |
| 30 | There is nothing easier to understand , it seems , than what facts are ; and yet there is nothing that is more elusive . |