Example sentences of "it more [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your employer may consider it more cost-effective to retain junior employees who are paid less than you . |
| 2 | No wonder investigators have found it more profitable to examine this problem in animals , where it is much easier to programme experience and ensure that only single events are studied without the influence of others . |
| 3 | Whether as ratepayers or as employers the farmers who ran the majority of rural councils found it more advantageous to provide tied housing for farm workers and build the minimum number of local authority homes . |
| 4 | Meals-on-wheels are not generally provided to disabled people on the grounds that they can not afford to eat ; rather they are provided because they need assistance to prepare a meal , and providers find it more convenient to meet this need by providing the meal itself . |
| 5 | Thus , the demand for money ( MD ) depends : ( a ) directly on national income ( as a rise in national income will reflect a rise in the total value of transactions and so will increase the demand for money to finance these transactions ) ; and ( b ) inversely on the rate of interest ( as a rise in the rate of interest will make it more attractive to hold financial assets , and less attractive to hold money , whether as part of an individual 's wealth holdings or as an outcome of a speculative activity ) . |
| 6 | The government believed it more important to balance public investment against private investment by keeping their discount rates in line than to balance overall investment against consumption by using a test discount rate closer to the rate at which consumers would swap current for future consumption . |
| 7 | For example , while some companies may have been able to ignore the social protest of individuals who suffered the effects of industrial pollution , they found it more difficult to resist organized groups of citizens whose opposition accompanied a marked decline in support for the LDP . |
| 8 | In so far as institutions find it more profitable to invest abroad , UK companies may find it more difficult to float new share issues . |
| 9 | For cervical cancer it has been suggested that physiological reasons make it more difficult to take good smears from older women . |
| 10 | But the scale of the buy-outs might make it more difficult to maintain that position . |
| 11 | MAS will advise you if they consider that your requirements might at an early stage unnecessarily make it more difficult to find suitable targets . |
| 12 | The US embassy even suggested that a Conservative government might find it more difficult to keep public protest within bounds . |
| 13 | Voting rules could be changed to make it more difficult to obtain legislative approval for budgets , again reducing the power of ‘ high demand ’ groups by requiring larger than simple-majority decisions . |
| 14 | This would act as a barrier against damaging developments such as road-building schemes , as individual departments would find it more difficult to override conservation interests . |