Example sentences of "more [adj] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , Kodak found so much administrative hassle was to be involved in serving the regional market via Kenya that it was more cost-effective to fly in the chemicals direct to each country . |
| 2 | A busy quay and some ferries make if often more pleasant to anchor to the north of the town . |
| 3 | It is no more possible to pass between the dates which compose the different domains than it is to do so between natural and irrational numbers . |
| 4 | It is true that the British were more disposed to live with the reality of the new China than were the Americans , and to the annoyance of Washington they speedily recognized the new regime in Beijing . |
| 5 | But someone committed to a thorough-going naturalism is no more prepared to allow to the mind mysterious properties than he is prepared to allow them to matter : for the thorough-going naturalist , after all , mind is no more than a manifestation of matter . |
| 6 | He tends to be less radical and confrontational than the most nationally prominent black politician , the Rev Jesse Jackson , and more willing to work with the establishment to achieve his goals . |
| 7 | Would it be more sensible to intervene through the tax system than to regulate quantities directly ? |
| 8 | I thought it was more sensible to walk to the library rather than go in the car cos |
| 9 | ‘ Who wants to come and find something more exciting to throw in the water ? ’ he asked . |
| 10 | Some officers , used to patrolling the ‘ bobby-bashing streets ’ , were much more prone to start with the truncheon . |
| 11 | Mr Palios said : ‘ It 's more appropriate to talk of the company having badwill than goodwill . ’ |
| 12 | It is more appropriate to focus upon the proportions by which domestic consumption is served by domestic production , partner country and rest of world imports . |
| 13 | Instead of taking the cases to the police , as he should have done and as any other hon. Member would have done , and certainly to the Home Office Minister , he found it more appropriate to come to the House and read from The News of the World to get as much publicity for himself as he could . |
| 14 | It is even more dangerous to generalise about the organisation of medieval agriculture than about its physical and demographic background . |
| 15 | There are invariably more mature female goats around than males , and the inference is that the males , as a result of their arduous rut , are more likely to die during the winter . |
| 16 | The study suggests that women under 50 with breast cancer are more likely to die from the disease if it is first picked up by mammograms than if they discover the lump by feeling their breasts . |
| 17 | He said that many people who could do so would be more likely to shop on the continent . |
| 18 | He said that many people who could do so would be more likely to shop on the continent . |
| 19 | But it was only one of those sleeps into which he was ever more likely to fall during the day and she knew he would waken , roaring , in an hour or so . |
| 20 | Showmen knew that middle-class critics had to be bought off and that topicality could sell films to certain audiences but they also appreciated that audiences were more likely to go to the movies for spectacle , for adventure , for comedy , for sex , to see particular stars , and to be entertained in the widest sense . |
| 21 | Art criticism seems more likely to remain in the shadows , out of the spotlight of academic controversy . |
| 22 | Western scientists argue that the plutonium is more likely to sink to the bottom and stay there . |
| 23 | In summary , therefore , different solutions are more likely to arise between the NPV and IRR methods when one or more of the following conditions exist : |
| 24 | I venture to suggest you are more likely to turn to the books of both authors after reading their contributions in Esquire . |
| 25 | On the facts of the problem he is more likely to succeed in the action for breach of statutory duty as that duty on the employer is stricter . |
| 26 | In their study of Yorkshire during the 1984–5 strike , for example , Winterton and Winterton ( 1989 : see also Waddington et al. , 1990 ) found that the strike breakers were more likely to live outside the mining communities , thereby producing a geography whereby the strike was strongest ( and longest ) in the pits whose labour came mainly from local , closed communities : in Nottinghamshire , of course , the opposite occurred , with the closed communities being solid against the strike . |
| 27 | Maori children were significantly more likely to live in the North Island , ( χ 2 =100 , df=4 , p<0.001 ) , have lower socioeconomic status ( χ 2 =133 , df=2 , p<0.001 ) , have an unmarried mother ( χ 2 =247 , df=1 , p<0.001 ) , have a mother who had left school young ( χ 2 =78 , df=2 , p<0.001 ) , and have a mother young at the birth of the infant ( χ 2 =130 , df=3 , p<0.001 ) ( table I ) . |
| 28 | On the other hand critics of the consensus within the Labour and the Conservative parties are more likely to point to the failures of political will , courage , persistence , and policy preparation by their respective leaderships as explanations for the convergence . |
| 29 | Such crops get away earlier in the spring and are more likely to ripen before the autumn rains . |
| 30 | Amongst readers of the same paper ( or paper-group as defined in Table 8.17 ) those who said they relied more on the press than on television were more likely to swing in the direction of their paper 's partisanship : Sun/Star and Express/ Mail readers who relied more on their papers swung more strongly to the Conservatives than Sun/Star and Express/Mail readers who relied more on television ; at the same time , Mirror readers who relied more on their paper swung towards Labour , while Mirror readers who relied more on television swung towards the Conservatives . |