Example sentences of "more [adj] put " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without exports to put an edge on the market breeders find it more profitable to put a Charolais on their Welsh Black cows . ’ |
| 2 | Michaels also says that other EC member countries are far more willing to put EC proposals and directives into force than we are . |
| 3 | Patients who have had previous experience of hypnotherapy ( even if no regression was involved ) are more likely to have confidence in the technique and in its safety , and therefore are often more willing to put themselves in the hands of the therapist and trust their own subconscious . |
| 4 | Give me a six foot tank and I 'm more likely to put a shoal of small 25mm Tetras into it , along with a few Dwarf Cichlids and Corydoras , than use it for one or two larger fish . |
| 5 | She found that if she turned her back he was more likely to put food in his mouth . |
| 6 | Apart from the ‘ evidence ’ of classical Greece , another main plank of the argument in favour of this belief is the hypothesis that one is more likely to put together two statements in writing and then compare them than two oral utterances . |
| 7 | During their youth Jane was more likely to put her weight and invective behind brother Charles than her kid sister . |
| 8 | ‘ You do n't think it 's more likely to put people off altogether ? ’ |
| 9 | However , if the cards are for the wife 's relations or childhood friends , it would be more natural to put her name first . |
| 10 | ‘ I wish the parishes across the district felt more able to put more money in . ’ |
| 11 | ’ It 's more satisfying to make an arrest but it 's more practical to put someone off because while you 're in the back room charging someone , other shoplifters are having a field day in the store . ’ |
| 12 | It is , however , easy to say ; much more difficult to put into practice . |
| 13 | But although it is easy to write fine-sounding words about the vision which should inspire community care services , it is much more difficult to put them into practice . |
| 14 | The situation is quite different from that of poor aim — and much more difficult to put right . |
| 15 | In other parts of Britain such ideas were more difficult to put across except to relatively small minorities or in the predominantly proletarian areas of central Scotland where miners , engineers and shipbuilders also constituted the majority of wage earners . |
| 16 | He did n't really mean it , but his request sounded more gracious put that way . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm more inclined to put it down to your Sagittarian impetuosity and clumsiness . ’ |
| 18 | It was more diplomatic to put it that way for Mr Multhrop 's chef . ’ |
| 19 | But overseas royal families are far more ready to put hand in pocket . |
| 20 | However , he recognized that the days when he could play the benign ruler , satisfying the grievances of his subjects and punishing guilty lesser officials , were waning — even if he had nothing more positive to put in its place . |