Example sentences of "be [verb] more [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The results of research with such instruments would enable general practitioners to provide scientific evidence to managers on why they may be using more expensive management options for a particular illness when the managers exert pressure on them to use the cheapest . |
| 2 | The most poetic words in a text can be given more emotive power by using melisma . |
| 3 | Demands were now being made that the people , or at least the educated and property-owning classes , be given more effective means of making their wishes felt . |
| 4 | Is your cost er , programme effectively complete er , or are we gon na be seeing more substantial redundancies this year ? |
| 5 | In many organizations where communications in various directions are poor and managers are feeling powerless to influence events , the single most sensible action by senior staff can be to promote more face-to-face meetings . |
| 6 | Later , while Rachel was checking supplies , Nina happened to mention that the new MO seemed to be proving more popular with the staff than the previous one had been , then added , ‘ Just as long as they do n't think he 's a soft touch and that they can come in here with a finger ache and think he 'll send them home . ’ |
| 7 | Council 's papers , though not its proceedings , seem to be proving more open than the Institute ever intended when it introduced its sunshine policy last summer . |
| 8 | Of course not all of the elderly of the future will be relatively affluent , and , to repeat , we need to be alert to inequalities among the elderly — between age cohorts and within them : the cohorts who will be bringing more occupational pensions and owner-occupied houses into old age will also bring in experience of early retirement and early run-down of resources due to unemployment . |
| 9 | Generally speaking the businesses that obtained government-guaranteed loan funds have produced problems : They require greater monitoring and supervising than the banks normally like to devote to small businesses and , as the type of support is very often a last resource , they must be considered more risky than the norm . |
| 10 | The 31-year-old said : ‘ Because of my commitment to West Ham their League games have to be considered more important . ’ |
| 11 | Experiments have shown that the shorter ( 14,769 item ) word list contains insufficient items for practical purposes ( i.e. the correct words were not found in the list ) , so search times for longer lists should be considered more important . |
| 12 | And whether it was to be considered more important than the West . |
| 13 | Such jobs enjoy a higher status and may be considered more popular and glamorous than others . |
| 14 | It was realised that our first aim should be to secure more tangible evidence and , if possible , further witnesses . |
| 15 | To these traditional criticisms can be added more recent ones . |
| 16 | I pointed out that when we last met she seemed to be becoming more political in her attitude almost before our eyes . |
| 17 | We may be becoming more visible . |
| 18 | But Comecon markets may be becoming more competitive . |
| 19 | Beyond school , the traditional idea that craft and technician courses can turn out ‘ finished ’ workers is being undermined in many occupations by the rapid changes in work skills , and hence the foundation function of the 16–19 stage seems to be becoming more obvious . |
| 20 | Forest cover has been substantially reduced over the past two decades , although the local people are also reported to be becoming more aware of the need for conservation measures . |
| 21 | Attention has been heavily concentrated on national campaigns and the activities of party leaders , despite the fact that there is some evidence to suggest that local campaigns may be becoming more important in influencing election results . |
| 22 | The picture can be made more revealing and informative in various ways . |
| 23 | Uranium comes in two isotopes , U and U. It is U that releases energy ; but 99.28% of natural uranium is U. For this natural uranium to be made more potent it must be enriched in U , which means sorting through the uranium and discarding some of the U. A little enrichment — to a U content of 2–6% — is good enough for most reactors , though some can work with unenriched uranium and some research reactors use highly enriched uranium . |
| 24 | However , such boards are difficult to turn and in large waves can nosedive , so for a more manoeuvrable design the rocker line would be made more curved . |
| 25 | But it is hard indeed to see how that axiom itself could be made more convincing either to a purely humanist philosophy or to a theology which maintained that God is something more and other than the obverse of our finitude . |
| 26 | The definition can be made more accurate , but not wholly satisfactory by specifying that the other animal must have changed its behaviour because it perceived the signal through its sense organs , and was not physically forced . |
| 27 | There are various ways in which abstract art-historical analyses can be made more relevant to the study of man and the organisation of exchange . |
| 28 | They , too , should be made more straightforward for people to understand and should be provided in a comparable form . |
| 29 | Classical dance , she feels , needs to be made more accessible . |
| 30 | Together they would like to investigate how the CAB service can be made more accessible to deaf people . |