Example sentences of "more [adj] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE IDEA of preparing a budget for the building of a house is a daunting thought , especially to someone who is more used to budgeting for the family holiday . |
| 2 | Though he 's more used to peering through the undergrowth , he never misses Chelsea . |
| 3 | Teachers in first schools are often more used to working in the classroom alongside other professionals than those who are subject specialists at the secondary school level . |
| 4 | Is it possible to make the policy advice derived from a portfolio grid more specific by incorporating into the grid increases in value ? |
| 5 | Surely those politicians , members of royalty , athletes or anyone who wishes to make a clarifying statement should have sufficient intelligence to appreciate that the media-kings of speculation can not only guess what the content of the future announcement will be , but can make it so much more interesting by speculating on the response , plus the reaction to the response by the person who probably intended to say the opposite to what the ‘ experts ’ had been speculating would be said for the past 48 hours . |
| 6 | PRIVATE detectives were more interested in getting between the sheets than working undercover , an industrial tribunal heard yesterday . |
| 7 | And you want to know what it was like being fêted by the Stones and Led Zep , and how in ‘ 61 Bob Dylan got his first Greenwich Village pro gig with John Lee ( and was apparently pissed off because the man from the New York Times was far more interested in rapping with the bluesman ) , but he just says it was nice to be able to put young Bob on the bandstand . |
| 8 | If , on the other hand , there are readers who are more interested in laughing at the past than in understanding it ; if they find disease and human suffering good for a giggle as well ; if they think that a sort of free association of ideas is a good substitute for historical explanation ; and if they are unperturbed by gross defects of style and grammar , then they will enjoy Andrew Nikiforuk 's The Fourth Horseman : A Short History of Epidemics , Plagues and Other Scourges . |
| 9 | In open play , 'Mere seemed more interested in arguing with the referee and reacting to any niggle from the opposition . |
| 10 | As we become more proficient in meditating about the ‘ I and Thou ’ , so will we find more beauty . |
| 11 | The downturn is too recent to assess from the point of view of recruiting , but it may make people more cautious about moving to the City . ’ |
| 12 | If anything Peter is more conscious of looking after the other guys . |
| 13 | SIMON PARKE , the 17-year-old Yorkshireman , made the selectors feel a little more comfortable by qualifying for the World Open here yesterday . |
| 14 | There is no popular support for that and there is no evidence that policing is made more effective by tinkering with the membership of the police authority . |
| 15 | And , as the Canadian writer Eric Downton put it in 1986 , ‘ societies with Confucian-Buddhist roots are proving more effective in coping with the industrial and technological challenges on the eve of the twenty-first century than [ are those countries with a ] predominantly Christian-Hebraic heritage . ’ |
| 16 | Based on our research , we concur with the earlier observation that ‘ paraprofessionals who come from the communities which they serve have been found to be more effective in working with the people as they have close ties and may have insights and information not readily available to the outsider ’ ( IASSW , 1979 , p. 8 ) . |
| 17 | Furthermore , Kemp 's absence that afternoon would mean that this other person — yes , Downes — would be all the more committed to staying with the tourists for the scheduled ‘ informal get-together ’ . |
| 18 | It is fair to say that the greatest violators of human rights across the world are terrorists , but I stressed the fact that it was important for the Government of India to be more open in dealing with the accusations . |
| 19 | Atari makes it more difficult by writing into the operating system ( the instructions that govern how the computer handles data ) an instruction that does not allow the computer to talk to disc drive and cartridge at the same time . |
| 20 | But better still is the delightful Gothic cloister which opens on the southern side of the nave , an asylum all the more praiseworthy for opening on the far side on to the street , and with an admirable fig tree standing in one corner to remind you that , northern Gothic or no , you are in the south . |
| 21 | For Pound undoubtedly made the poem more obscure by asking for the excision of some transitional and bridging passages where the language was not at full pressure , but on the other hand he caused to be removed some extended sections which , being plainly extraneous , could only have added to readers ' bafflement . |
| 22 | Burning and stinging is a usual complaint because the skin has been made more sensitive by stripping off the surface protective film . |