Example sentences of "more [adj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Duffy left at once , but Clare felt it would be more polite to linger for a while , rather than rush out after the couple , as if the wedding had been an annoying chore . |
| 2 | The geysers and mud pools of Rotorua are more striking seen from ground level than from the air , but the great geyser still looks impressive from 1,500 feet . |
| 3 | Because I have such regard for the right hon. Gentleman , it makes me all the more discontented to disagree with him about the proposition of permanent or automatic timetables . |
| 4 | Tufted carpets are much more economic to produce in that the pile is needled into a pre-woven backing . |
| 5 | of Distillers MG explains how it has been shown to be more cost-effective compared to the use of dry ice slices . |
| 6 | In addition , Kodak found so much administrative hassle was to be involved in serving the regional market via Kenya that it was more cost-effective to fly in the chemicals direct to each country . |
| 7 | When priority is not clear and variant copies are , or were , on sale indiscriminately , it is more usual to talk about ‘ states ’ . |
| 8 | Re-entry programmes may include practical clinical assessments , but it is more usual to rely on reports from any supervised clinical allocations undertaken during a course , and any personal assessments carried out by continuing education tutors , your mentor , or senior nurse assessors working in the area where you will be working . |
| 9 | Although it is more usual to think of it as a place of rest , a great deal of work is performed within the household . |
| 10 | It would be more profitable to concentrate on deciding what factors should lead the courts to intervene in any particular case . |
| 11 | Our aristocracy is handsomer ( more hideous according to Chinese or Negro ) than the middle classes , from [ having the ] pick of the women ; but oh , what a shame is primogeniture for destroying Natural Selection ! |
| 12 | There 's more of worth , more that uplifts in a single chorus of ‘ We Need Money' ’ than in a dozen of your picky , pedantic articles ! ’ |
| 13 | This downward bias will be more severe the more that changes in actual income are due to changes in v t rather than changes in expected income ; in other words , the more inaccurate our measure of expected income is , the greater is the severity of the bias . |
| 14 | It is obvious from the discussion so far that it is much more pleasant to live in some places than in others , although this will depend to a certain degree on the particular individuals and groups we are considering . |
| 15 | TIP : It 's much more pleasant to work in warm water , so let the heater bring the water up to temperature first . |
| 16 | A busy quay and some ferries make if often more pleasant to anchor to the north of the town . |
| 17 | It is no more possible to pass between the dates which compose the different domains than it is to do so between natural and irrational numbers . |
| 18 | Some regions are more popular to move to than others . |
| 19 | It is true that the British were more disposed to live with the reality of the new China than were the Americans , and to the annoyance of Washington they speedily recognized the new regime in Beijing . |
| 20 | At the same time I thought how few people , apart from Eliot , could have sat and telephoned from that desk : meanwhile , reflecting that it were more proper to appear to be contemplating the exterior than to be glancing at Eliot 's papers scattered in front of me . |
| 21 | At Kelham he seemed to enjoy the company of the lay brothers and the students more than that of the fathers , though I fancy he enjoyed the company of the more lively minded among them , such as Father Gabriel , a shrewd and lively thinker . |
| 22 | Having done so much good among them , the people were all the more prepared to listen to his teaching . |
| 23 | But someone committed to a thorough-going naturalism is no more prepared to allow to the mind mysterious properties than he is prepared to allow them to matter : for the thorough-going naturalist , after all , mind is no more than a manifestation of matter . |
| 24 | Change masters , or the makers of change , are not necessarily more creative than other people , but they are more willing to move beyond received wisdom to approach problems from new angles . |
| 25 | This probably reflects the perceptions of the respondents rather than a real difference in the actual quality of life of the people who died , although staff members may have been more willing to act as respondents for residents they had got on well with , and those residents may have had a better quality of life because of their relationship with the staff . |
| 26 | the exercise encouraged greater communication with governors ( a number of whom read the whole study ) , and between the Deputy Head ( Curriculum ) and more junior staff ( who seemed to be more willing to ask for help ) ; |
| 27 | I think erm I think is quite fair maybe if concessions could be raised to one fifty or two pounds but overall I think that people who can afford it spend such a lot of money on the raffle and we therefore give raffle tickets to those who can afford it could jealousy and on the raffle generally about a hundred pounds is made and if there , if there was more charge for tickets , people might not give so much for the raffles and also if you give but if you charge them a nominal sum and then shove other things at them on their options they might be more willing to give to optional choices like a raffle . |
| 28 | Is not it necessary to recognise that in future the Crown prosecution service should be far more willing to listen to allegations and to investigate them ? |
| 29 | On African issues he was more willing to listen to British views , helped by the fact that there was not the same fear of imminent communist penetration , nor were American interests so pressing . |
| 30 | And I think that they are more willing to listen to women and to share women 's duties . |