Example sentences of "[be] more [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it might be more salutary to ask : what part of Europe ? |
| 2 | On a smallholding it may be more practical to carry silage to the stock in yard or cowshed . |
| 3 | It is notable that in eastern England cremation is the preponderant burial rite and if cremation took place near the settlement it would be more practical to take the remains to a distant cemetery . |
| 4 | It seems to be more practical to opt for control on some form of ‘ toggling ’ basis , which is the method of control used in this program . |
| 5 | It may be more practical to use a commode for night-time toileting , even if the patient is capable of getting to the toilet when fully awake . |
| 6 | Embryos tend to stick to the surfaces of micropipettes and cavity blocks when 70% alcohol is reached and it may be more practical to remove and replace the alcohol rather than transfer embryos between cavity blocks . |
| 7 | Are you physically able to dig a grave , or would it be more practical to have your pet cremated and then bury the ashes ? |
| 8 | Clearly , it would be more convincing to argue a case for exploiting animals to develop a life-saving vaccine than to produce a dispensable commodity such as a new lipstick . |
| 9 | I think it 's probably going to be more frustrating to have a fax sitting there and you ca n't get through . |
| 10 | After sketching the steamboat , as she lay in the bay unlading her cargo , from the bridge over the water that divides Pultneytown from the old town of Wick , I got into one of the boats leaving the pier , and was landed on board the ‘ St. Nicholas , ’ thinking it would be more pleasant to visit Thurso by sailing round the coast than to go by rail . |
| 11 | Some societies and cultures may indeed be more pleasant to live in , just as some seem more exciting and others nastier . |
| 12 | By this time he was writing rather apologetically to Constanze , telling her that she must be more delighted to see him back in person than with any money he would be bringing in — he had even been obliged to lend his impecunious patron Prince Lichnowsky 100 gulden , a request he could hardly refuse … . |
| 13 | It starts with section 238 but it may be more illuminating to start here with section 240 which draws a distinction between the publication of ‘ statutory accounts , ’ ( i.e . |
| 14 | The fact that where goods are designed and manufactured to the buyer 's special order the seller will have greater knowledge of the buyer 's requirements and the buyer will rely on the seller 's skill may make it less reasonable for the seller to exclude or limit liability ; on the other , hand , if goods are manufactured to the buyer 's special order , it may be more reasonable to expect the buyer to insure against losses . |
| 15 | Would it be more useful to devise training regimes in which such attitudes could be systematically confronted ? |
| 16 | Since many books that I have read on eating disorders tend to lump all the ‘ patients ’ together , ignoring their differences , I thought it might be more useful to let two girls tell their own stories . |
| 17 | This is not necessarily true , though , as is said by Stein , Morris and Bransford ( 1978 ) : ‘ rather than emphasise the superiority of semantic over non-sematic processing , it may be more useful to ask how people use what they know ( whether this knowledge is non-semantic , semantic , etc. ) to more precisely encode and retain information . |
| 18 | It may , however , be more useful to think of No . |
| 19 | With such a wide definition , it might be more useful to consider what this leaves out , rather than what it includes — which gets us back to the categories I am working with here : it excludes inheritance and invention . |
| 20 | It may be more useful to attempt to visualise the relation as a three-dimensional one : some externalities may be above , others below , yet others merely ‘ out there ’ . |
| 21 | It may be more useful to try to consider behaviour , on the one hand , as a response to factors within the system and , on the other , as a response to factors outside the system — i.e. , from the user 's perspective . |
| 22 | Mary felt that it was too much of an intervention , operators and technicians floating around trying to get mikes here and that it was distracting … she decided it might be more useful to try and fix the camera . |
| 23 | A lot of people may like you , but it can be more useful to know a smaller , selective number — like the managing director 's secretary , for instance , who 's been with the company twenty-five years , and who loves to chat and fill you in on the history . |
| 24 | With ‘ non-reminiscers ’ there would appear to be less reason to dwell on the past , and it might be more useful to avoid it unless the counsellor feels that there is a particularly strong reason and purpose for doing so . |
| 25 | However , so much of what is now being produced lacks these very qualities that it may be more useful to look at successful artists ' work to find an answer to this question . |
| 26 | Your own recognition of improved living standards as key to stabilisation of numbers suggests that it will be more useful to look at livelihoods than fertility rates . |
| 27 | North America was still such a young country in 1700 that it will be more useful to look at Europe during this time . |
| 28 | In the context of nurses and health visitors returning to work it might be more useful to look at the ways in which regrading affects your application and appointment , and to provide you with general advice on what to expect from employers in due course . |
| 29 | The action of a single tyrant may be more potent to inflict suffering on the continent of Europe than a combination of less powerful persons . ’ |
| 30 | In this latter group of patients it may be more efficient to proceed directly to a trial of amiodarone or ICD placement rather than to proceed with a lengthy course of serial drug testing . |