Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] more [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no doubt that the population at large has become more mobile in many ways . |
| 2 | In value terms , Cadbury has beaten Mars and Rowntree Nestlé in the UK chocolate confectionery market for the best part of a decade , but it is noticeable that its lead has become more decisive since 1988/89 and the beginning of the recession . |
| 3 | Cooperation between the British Library Bibliographic Services Division , publishers of BNB , and the Decimal Classification Division has become more fruitful in recent years , and this is likely to further confirm the future of DC . |
| 4 | Since then , prison service has become more anxious about questions of security and control , and confidence in the rehabilitative ideal has declined . |
| 5 | As he has grown older he has become more involved with the social content of his work yet he sees his relationship to the audience in very personal terms . |
| 6 | In the more liberal social conditions of the post-emancipation era , the local standard has become more accessible to most of the population , thus strengthening the " continuum " and allowing more speakers to enter its middle and upper ranges . |
| 7 | The substantive law applied in many tribunals has become more complex since 1957 , while procedural rules have developed which need to be fully understood and carefully observed to make the most effective use of the tribunal decision-making process . |
| 8 | The use of education services has become more equal during the years of compulsory schooling . |
| 9 | With the US dollar buying only 116 Japanese yen , US companies should be slashing their prices in Japan — but they claim that they ca n't — Apple Japan Inc and Sun Microsystems Inc say they are not benefiting from the strong yen because they buy so much from Japan , and that has become more expensive in dollar terms as the yen has risen . |
| 10 | And though the Tory woman 's hat is a high art form now decayed and lost , as is that of the elegant crossing of Tory wives ' legs on a platform far above , and though the party has become more catholic in the women it attracts , there is a still a discernible type of Tory woman . |
| 11 | ‘ I think the better the players are treated in these respects , the more enthusiastic is their response to the challenges before them , ’ points out McGilligan , ‘ Let's face it , the whole sport has become more professional off the field — and it 's good to see it — so I do n't think too many people would begrudge players a few wee perks . ’ |
| 12 | In recent years the Bank of England has become more profitable as a result of high interest rates and good yields on the investments that these non-interest bearing deposits are placed in . |
| 13 | Much of the Forestry Commission 's early planting was certainly crude and insensitive , but in recent years it has become more attentive to its landscaping responsibilities ( not least because the Forestry Commission has found that there is money to be made out of tourism if it does so ) and now employs landscape consultants to advise on its planting policies . |
| 14 | The cost of keeping the CFA franc pegged so high has become more acute since non-CFA neighbours , Nigeria and Ghana , devalued their own currencies , making their exports more competitive . |
| 15 | The question has become more acute in the latest phase of market relations , which is that of the corporate . |
| 16 | Health services research has become more prominent as a result of the NHS reforms . |
| 17 | But since the initial motion was put forward by the policy and resources committee the question of local government review has become more prominent within the minds of this council and other councils across the country , and I think that issue needs to be addressed before we make as a cou , a council our final decision on the County Farms estate . |
| 18 | In general , the topic has become more prominent in management and trade union circles over the last few years . |
| 19 | Finally , the corporation has become more interested in investing in social infrastructure . |
| 20 | Apart from short-term political factors , there are deeper reasons why the quality of health care has become more salient to politicians , managers and health care professionals in most of the Western world . |
| 21 | More Danish women than men practise receptive anal intercourse , and it seems this sexual practice has become more prevalent during the past decades . |
| 22 | This has become more difficult in recent years . |
| 23 | In much of the writing on the dependent elderly , the assumption has been made that retirement has become more common at an earlier age because of a reduction in the demand for elderly workers . |
| 24 | Due to social changes , women now play a more prominent role in most societies , and it has become more commonplace for women to be seen drinking . |
| 25 | Unfortunately , the ugly threat of terrorism and sabotage has become more commonplace in commercial aviation in the last twenty years or so , and sometimes the perpetrators of criminal acts cause their own deaths as well as those of innocent passengers and crew . |
| 26 | This has become more important since the changes in Eastern Europe and the USSR . |
| 27 | Their role has become more important since the Panel restricted advertisements to factual matters ( Rule 19.4 ) . |
| 28 | The recent terminology of Soviet and DRA leaders confirms the impression that some form of neutralisation of Afghanistan has become more acceptable to Moscow . |
| 29 | This is because the volume of Japanese imports has become more sensitive to the domestic economic cycle . |
| 30 | As life expectancy has increased and earlier retirement has become more widespread in the twentieth century , so the elderly have come to comprise an ever larger section of the poor . |