Example sentences of "[verb] more [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The surprise findings have worried island fishermen , who want more detailed monitoring to determine whether the oil is localised or spread over a wide area . |
| 32 | NEWCASTLE want more physical power up front and 6ft 2in Swede Kennet Andersson could be the answer . |
| 33 | Furthermore , as we have shown , there are wide variations in performance between different categories of NSE students , and it seems likely that the universities may pursue more conservative entrance policies with regard to non-traditional students than those pursued in the former polytechnic sector . |
| 34 | We will pursue more competitive tendering for central government services . |
| 35 | It supported the aims of Achieving a Balance by insisting that the answer was not employing more junior staff but more consultants and staff grade posts to release junior doctors from some of their service commitments . |
| 36 | An account of how later stages often serve similar or identical biological strategies as lower stages but employing more complex mechanisms ( e.g. compare hunting in wolves and man ) . |
| 37 | In such a situation it is sometimes possible using very simple stimuli to dissociate the effects of stimulus-response compatibility from those due to eye-hand connections ( Berlucchi , Crea , Di Stefano and Tassinari , 1977 ) but the relevance of the different anatomical pathways in situations employing more complex stimuli is doubtful . |
| 38 | This fact is particularly significant in light of the poor outcomes sometimes reported after surgical procedures for constipation ; a thorough in depth functional evaluation , especially coupled to small bowel recordings , in order to exclude a more generalised gastrointestinal motor disorder , might yield more effective results after surgery in patients with chronic constipation . |
| 39 | The status consciousness argument really needs more convincing evidence than this experiment before we can take it as proven . |
| 40 | An IPM programme needs more selective products . |
| 41 | The Home Office says that it already pays fifty one percent of the cost of policing the royals , but if the county council can adequately demonstrate that it needs more then funds are available . |
| 42 | By the 1870s the machine has become so sophisticated that it needs more educated people to run it , to learn new techniques of maintenance and improvement , and to keep up its momentum . |
| 43 | The campaign desperately needs more disused climbing rope to link the stages . |
| 44 | Food containing insoluble fibre is satisfying as it needs more chewing than other foods and , as it absorbs water and swells in the stomach , it is filling . |
| 45 | ‘ A deep-seated problem needs more fundamental solutions . |
| 46 | Tous Les Matins Du Monde needs more light and shade . |
| 47 | In other cases the parents ' view of what their child should be able to do is appropriate but the child is showing a delay in his or her development and needs more detailed assessment of the level of progress . |
| 48 | We can still express scores as a percentage of the ‘ benchmark ’ , or ‘ always cooperate ’ score , even though that benchmark needs more complicated calculation and is no longer a fixed 600 points . |
| 49 | And , whatever the inquiry decides , Energy Secretary Nigel Lawson said that he believes Britain needs more nuclear power stations . |
| 50 | Perhaps the social science historian needs more contextual information because the passage of time may make it more difficult to make assumptions about what data signify , but this is surely only a question of degree . |
| 51 | Try ‘ I 'm pleased that the office manning problem is on next week 's agenda — I 'm worried that it needs more urgent attention ’ or ‘ I love it that you 've asked me to go away — it 's bothering me that I 've got to do this report by Monday . ’ |
| 52 | ‘ I 'm pleased that the office manning problem is on next week 's agenda — I 'm worried that it needs more urgent attention . ’ |
| 53 | Uninspired designs which , nonetheless , are important in the interpretation of stylistic relationships , are also included , as are many simple mosaics found in association with those thought to indicate more specific affinities . |
| 54 | Children may ‘ decide ’ that the adult past brought , for instance , indicates distant past , while the child 's bringed is retained to indicate more recent past . |
| 55 | The land gastropods appear to indicate more arid conditions , although still with tree cover , indicating a high degree of climatic seasonality . |
| 56 | He admitted that , while English at Oxford and London had been " admirable for training editors and literary historians " , it was " too inflexibly academic " to meet more general contemporary needs . |
| 57 | Dates for this year were already booked but much work is going on in the background to see how possible it is to reduce the number of reunions and thereby enable members to meet more old friends . |
| 58 | The older generation can ask the most awkward questions whilst giving less offence than younger members , who may feel it incumbent upon themselves to appear more reticent in giving advice . |
| 59 | They went for small-scale figures , often made to appear more youthful than the subject allowed . |
| 60 | BELVILLE : [ getting a little bored with PAMELA 's compliance ] You are very obliging , Pamela , but now be so good as to find some fault with me and say what you would wish me to do to appear more agreeable to you . |