Example sentences of "be more [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Convergers tended to be more conformist , more authoritarian in their views , have a high IQ , do badly on open-ended tests ( i.e. ones which demanded a certain amount of free expression and imagination ) and specialize in the physical sciences . |
| 2 | In a later article , he points to research findings which show that pupils who are good at maths tend , on the whole , to be more conformist and obedient than other pupils . |
| 3 | There would be more chance of winning the £200,000 top prize . |
| 4 | There could be more awareness of the ways in which women with children can get out of the home to meet socially or take up outside employment , and more facilities to increase those opportunities . |
| 5 | Claimed to be more user friendly is a product from Interpet , Pond Balance , which is said to be environmentally safe and actually encourage plant growth . |
| 6 | It was not seemly for the Second Son to outshine the father in this way and I knew instinctively that before a year had passed there would be more building in the compound . |
| 7 | There could , there could well be more redundancy in the second half er , declining , but there could still be a little . |
| 8 | There may be more overlap between levels than in the smaller library but each level still has training needs to be met , and those needs do not differ greatly from those indicated . ’ |
| 9 | There may be more overlap between levels in the smaller library but each level still has training needs to be met and those needs do not differ greatly from those indicated . ’ |
| 10 | There tends to be more division between workers where the strike may be defined as ‘ illegal ’ ; employers are likewise more apt to continue production and employ strikebreakers ; and trade unions are more likely to elicit more public condemnation and encounter ‘ more vigorous state repression ’ when they deliberately flout the law ( ibid.:1125 ) . |
| 11 | A whole range of contributory factors are singled out , and evidence offered , notably on age stratification leading children to be more peer than adult-orientated , and television viewing increasingly dominating their waking lives . |
| 12 | As expenditures on arms decline with the ending of the cold war , there may be more money available for aid , but democratic politics being what they are , few would care to bet on it ; certainly not on any percentage saved being set aside for the developing nations . |
| 13 | The trouble is that each creditor wants all the other creditors to sign new loan deals , while he keeps his original loan agreement , so that there will be more money , and he gets a bigger slice of it . |
| 14 | If the supply of money in the economy ( M s ) increases , there will be more money available than people require to hold ( M s > M d ) . |
| 15 | It seems to me entirely up to him , if he so wished , and his group , if they felt there needed to be more money spent on highways structural maintenance to have moved other bids up to priority order when discussing the capital budget . |
| 16 | He said there may be more money somewhere , but he could n't be sure . |
| 17 | Thus , surely there should not be more prestige matches played by fewer paid combatants in front of passive and hospitality-packaged crowds , but more active support for the playing of the game by as many players as possible at as many levels as possible . |
| 18 | It has often been stressed that there should be more interaction between Forum and Project sectors . |
| 19 | There could also be more dialogue between practitioners , their managers and their professional associations about issues that might benefit from research . |
| 20 | In contrast , in visual art the emphasis is more on the individual performance , so there can obviously be more dialogue with the particular child about his or her intentions in relation to the actual work being produced . |
| 21 | Domestic oil interests , mindful of Mr Bush 's background as an oilman , would prefer there to be more emphasis on encouraging domestic production . |
| 22 | A visit there convinced one EWO that there should be more emphasis on home — school liaison and an end to the practice of ‘ looking at school attendance as an enforcement issue . |
| 23 | The growing role of municipalities in providing health care means that there is bound to be more emphasis on primary care . |
| 24 | There will be more emphasis on the promotion of good health and the active prevention of disease . |
| 25 | It recommended that , in postgraduate training , there should be more emphasis on the links between the academic world and industry , and that scientists should be encouraged , in various ways , to contribute to the work of schools . |
| 26 | I 'm sure Councillor and erm , and certainly there does seem to be more emphasis on helping people with difficult educational disabilities , and those with learning difficulties , but if we could encourage even more , excellent , and I think it 's very important that er , bank agencies er emphasise the fact that it 's training , plus their main aim being er also a qualification , which does help them get , erm jobs . |
| 27 | there should be more emphasis on , on number of children that was lucky , it 's on this side is n't it ? |
| 28 | It was believed that , if the nation were to become more zealous in its service of God , there would be more hope of deliverance . |
| 29 | To be able to give parents all our attention while we are with them , and to shed other responsibilities during that period , may be more help than longer visits undertaken in a hurried and half-attentive way . |
| 30 | His grasp of foreign languages was causing Paul to consider asking him to translate some of his work , and knowing Nathan to be more help in that matter than she , Dinah , would ever be , she left the pair of them to their task , and herself enjoyed the jaunts in the carriage sent by the devoted amateurs of the locality . |