Example sentences of "[be] [prep] more [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The direction of tertiary education since the mid-seventies , as the process of contraction has continued , has been towards more responsiveness , more accountability , reduced autonomy . |
| 2 | Doctors have not always welcomed the establishment of computer systems in hospitals — computers have often proved difficult to use , and the information has been of more use to managers than to clinicians . |
| 3 | This book is useful but could have been of more value if it had been more clearly grounded in practice . |
| 4 | In a community like this the printed word has always been of more importance than to most of those whose access to books was very much easier . |
| 5 | Qualitative measures , on the other hand , are of more use for conveying information to parents and other professionals , and are essential as a basis for detailed planning or remedial strategies . |
| 6 | From this point of view analytic expressions such as those of Van Fo Fy & Savin ( 1965 ) are of more use than numerical data ( though presumably these could be fitted for comparison purposes by polynomials or other means ) . |
| 7 | Because such religions are of more interest to the media than are more ‘ ordinary ’ religions , it is quite likely that whenever the tragedy occurs we shall be treated to the headline Cult Member Commits Suicide . |
| 8 | The excavators at Silchester and Caerwent had found great quantities , but regarded it as merely so commonplace and ordinary , that they hardly bothered even to mention it , thus ignoring the important principle laid down earlier by the great Pitt-Rivers , who attempted to record everything he found ‘ however small and however common … common things are of more importance than particular things , because they are more prevalent ’ ( 1898 , 27 ) . |
| 9 | Indeed in the middle of the twentieth century it can be said that the majority of the world 's population lives under systems of government where the government itself and particularly the executive government are of more importance and are treated with more respect or fear than the Constitution . |
| 10 | If , however , you 're after more sophistication in both sound and facilities , and if you occasionally like to wander on the wild side , then the ME-10 is the way to go . |
| 11 | The sleuths are in more danger with every discovery they make . |
| 12 | His contention is that much of the slump in mainframe revenues has been mis-attributed to downsizing mania whereas the recession should take of the blame — delay in large capital projects gives the impression that mainframes are in more trouble then they actually are , he suggests . |
| 13 | Always the call will be for more power to the organization , so that the 1989 cry of alarm from the Police Federation conference about private security firms is based more on a fear that areas of influence are being taken from the institution than on beliefs that such groups are incompetent . |
| 14 | A good theorist should be aware of the weaknesses in his theory , and his prime advocacy will be for more imagination in examining the issues involved and better experimentation wherever possible . |
| 15 | I 'm of more use to him , if I carry his letters faithfully , than all the statutes and limitations and restrictions they 've clapped on the Welsh trade . |
| 16 | What appears to be of more significance for the role of keiretsu in Japan 's economic growth is their objective of diversifying their interests in the widest possible range of activities throughout manufacturing industry , construction , finance and the service sector . |
| 17 | Too close a contact with leading journalists could be of more benefit to the media than it is to you . |
| 18 | However , such a mental exercise may be found to be of more benefit to him than could any rules , and as such may not be such a bad thing . |
| 19 | I went to the cinema considering that that would be of more benefit than taking a Latin exam that I could not pass . |
| 20 | I can be of more service vis-à-vis your ambitions than I have heretofore . |
| 21 | She hinted that she could be of more help to them than her brother , provided that they left him alone in his present state of health . |
| 22 | ‘ Sorry I ca n't be of more help . |
| 23 | A serious extension of the simple analysis presented in the previous paragraph would be of more help than a thousand more studies documenting that socio-economic differentials in mortality exist . |
| 24 | Sorry not to be of more help . |
| 25 | Sorry I could n't be of more help . |
| 26 | In the Snowdonia National Park this latter consideration frequently appears to be of more importance than any other to the NP Committee when more controversial schemes are examined , in spite of a NPA having no statutory responsibilities for such policies . |
| 27 | In other words it is possible that local social and ecological facts may be of more importance when interpreting crime than broad processes such as modernization . |
| 28 | Thus the financial health of the company seemed to be of more importance than the community 's concern over the health of its children . |
| 29 | The definition of living space continues to be of more importance than its detail , and even Gothic novelists , who are fond of adjectives and often describe the landscape at some length , elaborate very little on interiors . |
| 30 | Although this may seem to be of more interest to a mountaineer it does give a most convincing sense of reality to his hills and this without a sterile exactitude . |