Example sentences of "[noun sg] more [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unions also fear that Mr MacGregor wants to link appraisal more closely to teachers ' salary levels , thus creating a merit pay system . |
| 2 | By engaging in some instances in dialogue directly with local and regional authorities and by-passing national governments , the Commission hoped to be able to co-ordinate the allocation of the Structural Funds and direct aid more effectively to the problem areas , thereby also implicitly weakening the influence of national government upon the use of EC funding . |
| 3 | The evidence shows that this may well be a case in which failures by the ambulance service to provide an ambulance more quickly to a person who was in extremis was a cause of the death which might have been avoidable if the ambulance had been available earlier . |
| 4 | Helen Cam once suggested that parliamentary petitions may have sprung from the already practised art of the clergy in drafting lists of gravamina , or grievances , which at intervals since 1237 they had submitted to the king for redress ; but G. O. Sayles traces the origin more directly to the legal procedure of bills of complaint submitted to the king 's itinerant justices , and certainly the character of the early parliamentary petitions seems to bear this out : clerical gravamina were corporate complaints directed against general practices rather than particular people and they lacked the specific quality which individual parliamentary petitions naturally displayed . |
| 5 | Several decisions of the higher courts had , shortly before the Act , injected greater clarity into the law and linked breach of the peace more firmly to the notion of violence to persons or property . |
| 6 | Yet each in its own way reflects the rejection of the abstraction and impersonality of Absolute Idealism , and the endeavour to relate philosophy more concretely to the textured fabric of human life and experience . |
| 7 | If , for example , we reduce the share of the system taken up by intervention in beef , we should be able to get that money more directly to the farmer . |
| 8 | ‘ If you listened a bit more carefully to yourself I think you might talk a lot less . ’ |
| 9 | our royalty is erm we sort of put on a pedestal and if you look at other European countries who still have royal families , they 're a bit more down to earth , some of them Europe go on bicycles and they do n't need , erm , all the limousines . |
| 10 | They showed that subjects given verbal pre-training with one set of stimuli learn the appropriate motor response more rapidly to these stimuli than to a further set introduced for the first time in the test phase . |
| 11 | The reticence of the CAB to put its case more cogently to the private sector may be explained by their historic fear of losing their independence . |
| 12 | It is the function of the cognitive analyser to perform in exactly this way and thereby to relate the organism more closely to environmental and social change . |
| 13 | The government 's aim is evidently to shift the taxation of motorists on to petrol ; this will link the tax more closely to vehicle use , and so provide a greater incentive to economise on fuel . |
| 14 | Appalled , she pushed back , but the movement only succeeded in pressing her lower body more closely to fitzAlan 's hard thighs . |
| 15 | She clutched her school satchel more closely to her , holding it like a shield against the elements . |
| 16 | The Exhibition Committee had advertised the event more widely to the general canoeing public than for the last decade . |
| 17 | There was also a great deal of debate about : the need to popularise knowledge , utilising aspects of working-class and popular culture in adult education ; the problem of linking adult education more effectively to social and economic issues in local communities ; the necessity for greater informality and flexibility in the provision of adult education ; the importance of community-based adult education initiatives ; the challenge of creating new educational ‘ networks ’ to provide a comprehensive community education service linking a range of education providers , formal and non-formal , to the needs and interests of working-class communities . |
| 18 | Attempts had of course been made before 1513 to link taxation more directly to personal riches , but they had been unpopular and , in general , ineffective . |
| 19 | Encouraging the visually handicapped pupil to improve self-help skills and personal organisation can help to reduce the ‘ nuisance level ’ of visual impairment and enable the pupil more confidently to ‘ have a go ’ at enjoyable activities with friends . |
| 20 | The more dominant females then tend to gain access more easily to the new mother irrespective of her rank . |
| 21 | Some officers can now see that at the time they were " typical colonialists " who failed to read the signs of the tinies or entrust positions of authority more readily to African leadership . |
| 22 | For those who see in this the loss of an opportunity to remould the world more nearly to their hearts ' desire , that must be the overwhelming pity . |
| 23 | It is something of a boost for drama teachers to have someone as eminent in education as David Hargreaves taking interest in the value of drama , but if the subject is to develop we must find ways of demonstrating its worth more effectively to more such ‘ outsiders ’ . |
| 24 | In addition , the reader was provided with information more usually to be found in an encyclopaedia than in a dictionary . |
| 25 | DOS 6 will see it being brought a lot more up to date . |
| 26 | It occurred to Lyn — fleetingly , to be gone in a moment that most men would have broken such a thing more gently to their wives . |
| 27 | He transferred his mastery of comic timing and expression more successfully to film than many British comedians . |
| 28 | Governments would have to give way more often to the opinions of back-benchers , and not force every measure through as a matter of confidence . |
| 29 | Of course , Anisminic is authority only in relation to the precise wording of the provision in issue in that case , and so courts are able to interpret different wording more favourably to the government . |
| 30 | Simply put , this replaces one of the springs in the rear cavity with an adjustable ‘ piston ’ which is set to return the tremolo more accurately to its standing position , hence keeping the instrument 's tuning more stable . |