Example sentences of "[prep] be more [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well there 'd ought to of been more control but apparently now , you know how the Indians come over here , all the time do n't they ? |
| 2 | This is n't the way that the current system reasons , and I would certainly like to take the current system and push it in this direction of being more expert in a human sense . |
| 3 | If there is to be more defence co-operation in Europe , why is it necessary for Britain to have its own capability , in addition to that of France ? |
| 4 | It is perhaps significant that there appeared to be more choice of newspaper than of television news . |
| 5 | And with Venus in your own sign between February 2 and June 6 , there has to be more love and fulfilment around than for some time . |
| 6 | There tends to be more division between workers where the strike may be defined as ‘ illegal ’ ; employers are likewise more apt to continue production and employ strikebreakers ; and trade unions are more likely to elicit more public condemnation and encounter ‘ more vigorous state repression ’ when they deliberately flout the law ( ibid.:1125 ) . |
| 7 | The may maybe I just comment on that that last that last point , which as I understand it it the the justification for a new settlement is brought about solely by increasing the requirement for Greater York to twelve thousand seven hundred , going through those figures there seems to me , for instance , for both Ryedale and Selby to be more provision than could be met in a single settlement , I I think the the figures put forward by Barton Willmore are more than can be met in existing allocations and a single new settlement of a reasonable size . |
| 8 | Five million more motor cars on the roads since 1980 mean that there is bound to be more damage to , theft from and taking of motor vehicles . |
| 9 | The Adagietto , too shows the Boston Symphony Orchestra at its most refined , but , while I admire Ozawa 's emotional restraint , there needs to be more sense of ebb and flow , even at such a slow speed , if the moment is not to fall apart . |
| 10 | When embalming a case which has been the subject of a post-mortem examination , there is likely to be more opportunity for formaldehyde to enter the atmosphere but care is taken to minimise this . |
| 11 | Domestic oil interests , mindful of Mr Bush 's background as an oilman , would prefer there to be more emphasis on encouraging domestic production . |
| 12 | The growing role of municipalities in providing health care means that there is bound to be more emphasis on primary care . |
| 13 | I 'm sure Councillor and erm , and certainly there does seem to be more emphasis on helping people with difficult educational disabilities , and those with learning difficulties , but if we could encourage even more , excellent , and I think it 's very important that er , bank agencies er emphasise the fact that it 's training , plus their main aim being er also a qualification , which does help them get , erm jobs . |
| 14 | CAPRICORN There 's likely to be more contact from family members this week , as you feel the urge to be closer to home . |
| 15 | But it 's obvious at the moment that you need to be more self centred . |
| 16 | These days we try to be more communautaire than thou . |
| 17 | It seems to me entirely up to him , if he so wished , and his group , if they felt there needed to be more money spent on highways structural maintenance to have moved other bids up to priority order when discussing the capital budget . |
| 18 | But this seemed to be more work than charring — for less pay . |
| 19 | She had worked hard last week , but there seemed to her to be more work than ever landing on her desk this week . |
| 20 | Moreover these gods are said to be more part of the world 's spiritual furniture than transcendent of it — perhaps more like the saints in Catholic tradition . |
| 21 | A whole range of contributory factors are singled out , and evidence offered , notably on age stratification leading children to be more peer than adult-orientated , and television viewing increasingly dominating their waking lives . |
| 22 | Computer products are relatively much cheaper in the US than in the UK , and Americans tend to be more computer literate . |
| 23 | Convergers tended to be more conformist , more authoritarian in their views , have a high IQ , do badly on open-ended tests ( i.e. ones which demanded a certain amount of free expression and imagination ) and specialize in the physical sciences . |
| 24 | In a later article , he points to research findings which show that pupils who are good at maths tend , on the whole , to be more conformist and obedient than other pupils . |
| 25 | Claimed to be more user friendly is a product from Interpet , Pond Balance , which is said to be environmentally safe and actually encourage plant growth . |
| 26 | His grasp of foreign languages was causing Paul to consider asking him to translate some of his work , and knowing Nathan to be more help in that matter than she , Dinah , would ever be , she left the pair of them to their task , and herself enjoyed the jaunts in the carriage sent by the devoted amateurs of the locality . |
| 27 | In peace-time the selection ratio , the ratio of applicants to available jobs is a key feature , there tends to be more testing in times of economic depression when jobs are scarce and also in post-war periods when there is extensive experience of using tests . |
| 28 | Where a high level of uniformity is required throughout the organisation , and where effective coordination of different parts of the organisation is essential , there is likely to be more centralisation of authority . |
| 29 | But many others , which tend to be more niche , specialised and smaller businesses , have done very well in world markets . ’ |
| 30 | In 1734 , for example , Gabriel Napier of Craigannet , the sheriff-depute of Stirlingshire , pressed Lord Ilay to help him add the office of keeper of the register of sasines for Stirling and the stewartry of Menteith to his official holdings , for he found the sheriffship to be more trouble than it was worth . |