Example sentences of "[conj] more [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the whole , then , users who were mainly familiar with LlBERTAS preferred its general tone and did not perceive it as slower or more tedious to give commands to . |
| 2 | It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan , more uncertain of success , or more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new order of things . |
| 3 | None of the new features take away control from the user or make it harder or more complex to use , a strategy which some other vendors would do well to emulate . |
| 4 | Nothing could be vaguer or more likely to lead to a greater increase in the powers and competences of the Community than wording of this kind . |
| 5 | A low response rate is serious particularly if there is reason to suspect that persons likely to give particular kinds of answers might be less or more likely to respond than others . |
| 6 | It is my belief that our life preparation students are not ‘ valued ’ by many colleagues , so how would they react to learners seen to be ‘ less able ’ or more difficult to cope with ? |
| 7 | Would such a move have m–de it easier or more difficult to confront the local police about their failure to protect the black community from racial attack ? |
| 8 | But no planning regulation may be passed , no law affecting the education of the young or the use of the highway , and so on , which will make it easier to realize one conception of the good or more difficult to pursue another . |
| 9 | Of course people in one time or place might be more aware of God , or more able to formulate their awareness in a way which persisted through further generations . |
| 10 | It reads : ‘ It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan , more uncertain of success , nor more dangerous to manage , than the creation of a new order of things . ’ |
| 11 | Although more difficult to make than quick fondant icing , the technique is soon mastered . |
| 12 | It gets more and more embarrassing to watch Dustin Hoffman coughing and limping as if he 'd come straight to the film from a Broadway theatre . ’ |
| 13 | In view of the fact that the methods of obtaining suitable labour may be time-consuming , it is preferable and more efficient to maintain a detailed register of labour-only sub-contractors . |
| 14 | Or is the current wave of hooliganism in British football merely a continuation of old traditions , which we now are less willing to tolerate and more anxious to report ? |
| 15 | What is more , every change makes the tax more difficult to understand and more expensive to administer . |
| 16 | Such businesses are not going to survive in the face of the pressure being applied by insurance companies to have their customers only deal with approved repairers , particularly when it is becoming harder and more expensive to become an approved repairer and then maintain one 's company as such . |
| 17 | We became increasingly angry and frustrated , feeling more and more that to work politically with men , whatever their sexuality , was simply a debilitating exercise . |
| 18 | For a deep , steep curve it is probably easier and more accurate to take a pattern of half the arch , and spread this to fit the curtain fabric width , as follows : |
| 19 | It is , however , quicker and more accurate to calculate them arithmetically from the summary points . |
| 20 | As we probe further it will become more and more necessary to re-assess the relationship between the two modes as dialectical rather than that of opposites . |
| 21 | The stress concentration gets worse and the Griffith energy balance gets more and more favourable to crack propagation . |
| 22 | What is more disturbing today is that the Germans have been quicker and more successful to recognise the causes of the decline in their research community than we have in the UK . |
| 23 | Because she was so certain that she wanted someone older and more experienced to look after her baby than a young girl straight out of college , Celia had not bothered to mention Edna 's letter to Brian . |
| 24 | The children who have gone to the country are much taller , stronger and better fed , they sleep longer and in every way they are alert and more easy to teach . |
| 25 | But in principle we agree do we not , to back multi-agency meeting , given what we said in the discussion and we will come back to you with something that 's maybe a bit more specific , and more easy to discuss , may I say . |
| 26 | Designed to enhance and protect both new and previously sealed timber and cork floors , water-based Beaver Clear Satin Floor Varnish is safer and more pleasant to use than solvent-based varnishes which give off strong , unpleasant smells that can cause headaches and nausea , particularly when used in confined areas . |
| 27 | Indeed , the initial experiences of the ECSC had led some to argue that rather than pursue a sector by sector strategy , it would be far easier and more logical to plan for the integration of whole economies . |
| 28 | And in a way I lost my direction too when all my lovely ideas about what I hoped to do were smashed down , leaving only a shell : a two-dimensional character instead of a many-faceted character , which would have been more interesting to watch and more interesting to do . |
| 29 | As Robert Paul Wolff pointed out in an acute critique of conventional pluralism , it is easier and more plausible to urge compromise when it is interests rather than principles which are at stake . |
| 30 | It is safer and more conclusive to let the shoplifter pass through any cashout without paying ; |