Example sentences of "more [adj] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today , it is more usual to replace the base with marine ply . |
| 2 | Without exports to put an edge on the market breeders find it more profitable to put a Charolais on their Welsh Black cows . ’ |
| 3 | He has grasped that it is more profitable to attack the Government for incompetence and negligence than to present it as a systematic and all-too-competent conspiracy against the people . |
| 4 | In studying the expansion of metals when they are heated , it is more profitable to limit the role of observers ' intuitions to , for instance , judgements of the position of the top of a column of mercury relative to a graduated scale . |
| 5 | The reason for this might be that it feels more possible to grieve the death of someone or something that is perhaps significant , but not so important as the death of the spouse . |
| 6 | Never has the time been more opportune to revive the worship of the Great Earth Goddess and her consorts ( History of the World NI 196 ) . |
| 7 | Information technologists have no more right to dictate the course of language than any other group . |
| 8 | The answer is simple ; there need be no judge and no moral dilemma if parents and doctors accept that they have no more right to end the life of a handicapped child than they do for any child which enters this world . |
| 9 | There appears to be no method more reliable to check the degree of redness , pinkness or greyness that you desire then sticking in your knife into the thickest point of the meat . |
| 10 | Relevant , too , are the views of individual judges about the role of the courts in interpreting and applying legislation : some judges may be more prepared to find an ambiguity in statutory language than others or even to interpret a statute ‘ purposively ’ in order to achieve a desired result . |
| 11 | The fact that they seem more willing to take a chance on change suggests that a new era may be dawning which represents a new problem for beleagured British Prime Minister John Major . |
| 12 | Teachers appear to be more willing to support the development of a common core curriculum ( Venning , 1979 ; Wicksteed & Hill , 1979 ) : a change that is mirrored by opinions in the ‘ Week by Week ’ column of Education ( 2 Nov. 1979 : 11 Jan. 1980 ) which tries to reflect the current climate . |
| 13 | It has turned away from old style nationalization and is more willing to admit the need for enterprise and a role for markets . |
| 14 | In some areas the judiciary seems more willing to limit the exercise of discretionary powers ; in others , less willing , even reluctant . |
| 15 | Professor Dinwiddy was more willing to accept the existence of a revolutionary movement in Lancashire and the West Riding which had begun to mobilise in a rudimentary way and which did administer oaths and invoke the name of Ludd . |
| 16 | The advocates of such a holistic viewpoint would have been far more willing to accept the need for preserving the complex web of natural relationships , and would thus have gravitated towards the environmentalist movement . |
| 17 | Finally , in terms of status situation Lockwood is more willing to concede a deterioration in the position of the clerical workforce . |
| 18 | It can often be brought into areas where they feel more willing to express an opinion by putting the problem in terms of comparative bets , using the notion of the equivalent urn . |
| 19 | It can often be brought into areas where they feel more willing to express an opinion by putting the problem in terms of comparative bets , using the notion of the equivalent urn . |
| 20 | If the power is of a routine nature the courts will be more willing to imply a power to sub-delegate than if there is a strong element of discretion involved . |
| 21 | Erm yeah well actually it would actually be much more sensible to divide the year into into thirteen months each of twenty eight days because twenty eight days you will realize is two fortnights so you can divide the year very nicely into thirteen equal periods . |
| 22 | Critics of the deal , which was worked out at ministerial level , say that it would have been more sensible to spend the money on rebuilding the Villahermosa Palace to be an annexe for the nearby Prado , which is urgently in need of more space , as well as the kind of modern facilities which have ‘ put the Villahermosa among the ranks of intelligent buildings and the top museums of the Nineties ’ , as the press release boasts . |
| 23 | Thus , while painting and decorating courses have rather faded because people do not want ex-prisoners inside their houses to decorate them , it is apparently much more acceptable to have an ex-prisoner in your house to repair your word-processor . |
| 24 | Prince Bernhard had said no such thing , but Sharpe had decided it would be more efficacious to assign the opinion to the prince than to confess that it was his own view . |
| 25 | Simultaneously , Jack Wood , soon to be returned unopposed in the forthcoming municipal election , told the West Ham Trades Council that ‘ he was more delighted to have a place on ( the ) united Labour Party platform than to have a seat on the council ’ ( ibid ) . |
| 26 | It is more appropriate to examine the impact of aid programmes and projects in aggregate on a particular country . |
| 27 | However , for the purpose of discussion in this chapter it will be more appropriate to preserve the distinction between them . |
| 28 | ‘ Now the technology is in a different league and we feel it is more appropriate to give the task of pulling the threads together to one person . |
| 29 | It may be more appropriate to set a period of three to four years for the achievement of the longer term aim . |
| 30 | Calculation of stress-strain relations seems more appropriate to estimate the load of distension on a rather thick walled human rectum . |