Example sentences of "[adv] for a more [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second is how to elicit people 's preferences , and though score sheets , questionnaires and semantic difference scales have been widely used , the search is still on for a more effective method ( Propst and Buyhoff , 1980 ) . |
| 2 | Anyone who seems suitable will receive an informal visit and then come down for a more formal interview . ’ |
| 3 | However , such boards are difficult to turn and in large waves can nosedive , so for a more manoeuvrable design the rocker line would be made more curved . |
| 4 | There is a real need here both for a more flexible employment situation , which could absorb older people in less arduous or part-time work if they required it , and for more efforts to prepare people for retirement , helping them to develop time-consuming , absorbing and possibly profitable hobbies in advance of finishing work . |
| 5 | ‘ I developed the pin curl looks about two years ago and have since changed the technique by dressing the hair more with back-combing and pinning it up for a more avant-garde finish . |
| 6 | They are not tremendously significant unless a person s name comes up for a more senior position . |
| 7 | The proposal , unveiled in April , was initially investigated by the Office of Fair Trading and then referred to the MMC three months later for a more detailed probe . |
| 8 | This is not to say that there are not many people of good will who are working conscientiously for a more humane society , but such efforts inevitably succumb to the demonic . |
| 9 | Butler could n't adapt to his new defensive role , and Chapman began to look around for a more solid defender , not necessarily a player with much technical skill , but one who could clear accurately under pressure , feeding the ball to an inside-forward . |
| 10 | This can be so even where you have not had to shop around for a more favourable report . |
| 11 | Christian Aid and SCIAF act for the Scottish Churches in working together with local people overseas for a more just world , promoting relief and development programmes in Asia , Africa and Latin America . |
| 12 | By paying attention to this approach , I believe its central tenets can be adopted to provide a way forward for a more effective response to disruptive pupils . |
| 13 | Once you 've mapped in the shape , leave it soft , or wet the brush , dip it back into the powder and run it over again for a more liquid line . |
| 14 | In these circumstances the Soviet Union has pressed more recently for a more limited regime for the Gulf involving restrictions on the naval presence of the Great Powers in the region . |
| 15 | The autobiography — Sins of My Old Age and Earlier he had already dipped into , and he went back to it reluctantly for a more systematic reading . |
| 16 | Picasso , on the other hand , while he was undoubtedly fascinated by the formal and sculptured properties of tribal art , also admired it intuitively for a more fundamental reason ; for its ‘ reasonable ’ or conceptual quality . |
| 17 | But I would argue that there is a place too for a more structured approach — for the inclusion in the language curriculum of some kind of planned study of the way written language works . |