Example sentences of "it is a more [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To illustrate this , it is relevant to remember that driving a car is possible for the fully sighted in foggy conditions , but it is a more tiring procedure than driving when visibility is good . |
| 2 | Now that it is a more viable way of getting the best possible house , young design talent could quickly transform domestic building . |
| 3 | The nature of the choice of language is , of course , slightly different from that of most speaker/listeners : it is a more closed choice — ‘ dictated ’ by the clients , but this can make it more difficult , not less so , particularly since so much can depend on choosing appropriately and being able to do so both ways : clearly a community interpreter can not work brilliantly into one language and culture and poorly into the other . |
| 4 | One could say that it is a more specific interpretation of the original proposition since it is about a particular kind of running . |
| 5 | It is a more muscular breed and , though the emphasis has always been slightly in favour of milk rather than meat , the breed is continually tested for growth and food conversion rates , especially as veal production is important . |
| 6 | It is commonly assumed that this is widespread and costs enormous sums of money , and that it is a more serious offence than tax-evasion , which in fact costs the exchequer billions of pounds , far in excess of the cost of social security fiddling . |
| 7 | Therefore , it is a more serious pest in the lighter construction adopted in post-medieval buildings where the proportion of sapwood is high . |
| 8 | It can not , however , be claimed with any certainty that it is a more accurate method . |
| 9 | The most commonly used argument for standardising delivery of meals is that it is a more economic use of resources . |
| 10 | It is a more powerful language . |
| 11 | It is a more complex tension between the time it takes for any educational system to assimilate innovation , and the pressing need of computer manufacturers and software publishers to market new products . |
| 12 | In practice , however , the young constable soon learns that it is a more paying proposition from his point of view so to work his beat that the time-table is not deflected from . |
| 13 | Perfumery is perhaps an even more ancient art than dyeing ; it is a more obvious constituent of a plant , so would have been experimented with earlier , to disguise bad smells if nothing else , such as those of rotting meat and decaying vegetation . |
| 14 | One importance of the continuum is that it is a more precise form of categorisation than the simple dichotomy . |
| 15 | It will not be easy to launch a new radical programme , but it is a more promising process than that of re-alignment between Labour and the LibDems . |
| 16 | It is a more standardised approach than the funds flow statement . |
| 17 | It is a more sophisticated account than the simple trait and style theories that we began our account with . |
| 18 | It is a more bracing place to be than its rival , but much faded none the less from its days of greatest success in the last century , when it formed one end of the Route Therm ale , a new road system , decreed by the Emperor Napoleon III , which was to link Eaux-Bonnes with Bagnéres-de-Bigorre to the northeast . |
| 19 | However , it is a more difficult number for subjects to actually understand and make their own estimates of . |
| 20 | Although his actions were widely condemned at the time and subsequently , it is a more open question whether his objectives were so much at odds with those of his government . |