Example sentences of "but it is much " in BNC.

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1 Read in this way , community policing in Northern Ireland seems designed exclusively to improve relations between the police and Catholics , but it is much wider than this for it is also employed in Protestant t areas like Easton , where the existence of ‘ ordinary crime ’ ensures that the police are keen to improve crime prevention by better relations with the public generally .
2 Usually , I know exactly what I want , but it is much better if you can get other people to do it and let them take the credit .
3 The book owes its title and framework to Bunyan , but it is much more satirical in tone and purpose than The Pilgrim 's Progress .
4 But it is much smaller than the American store .
5 Even when our conscious feelings are not in a state of conflict , it is difficult to portray them relatively accurately in words , but it is much more so when they are .
6 This system may require some initial experimentation to familiarise oneself with exposure times , chemical strengths etc. , but it is much more convenient in many respects , especially if you are involved with designing/prototyping as well as routine project building .
7 Getting going again after a hard race is not easy , but it is much easier if you have a plan to follow .
8 One can allow for lack of strength or stiffness in design but it is much more difficult to allow for cracks which catch the engineer unawares and are dangerous .
9 The distinction does arise and it can not entirely be neglected but it is much less important than appears at first sight .
10 Amongst elderly women , there has also been a decrease in activity rates , but it is much less pronounced .
11 But it is much more difficult to justify on academic terms an expansion of what I will call ‘ educational exposure ’ ; the development , through extensive first-hand experience , of an understanding of what being a teacher involves , of the demands it makes upon those who teach for month after month , of the stresses and strains ( as well as the joys ) of the classroom .
12 I am not sure if any time is saved by taking this route , but it is much more interesting .
13 It is possible that the boundary between mastery and non-mastery might be set differently for different educational purposes , but it is much more likely that different purposes will prescribe whether a boundary needs to be set at all .
14 But it is much more satisfactory to angle the basic release to suit the readership or audiences of the various media groups .
15 But it is much more difficult to show antagonism : many contexts which might be expected to manifest it do not :
16 For a complicated shape this may take a few minutes but it is much more controlled than some of the automatic methods .
17 The funnel structure shown in the drawing is certainly usable but it is much more difficult to use than the ordinary funnel shown in the drawing for " efficiency " .
18 For like a great many theories , it seems much more easily applicable to some kinds of text than to others ; one can see quite clearly its possible relevance to the sort of literature that the New Critics generally preferred to discuss , the lyric tradition from Shakespeare , roughly speaking , to Yeats ( Wimsatt and Brooks described their movement ( 1957 : 742 ) as ‘ neo-classic ’ ) ; but it is much less easy to see its relevance to the novel , or to much modern avant-garde writing .
19 Even to relatively unsophisticated subjects it is quite intuitive to sell when the price is high and store when the price is low , but it is much less intuitive to produce where the marginal cost is equal to some expectation .
20 If necessary , insulate the cylinder by fitting a separate jacket , but it is much better to use a pre-insulated cylinder
21 But it is much more useful to explain it in terms of interactions between pistons , cylinders and sparking plugs .
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