Example sentences of "[verb] more [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These changes followed from recommendations set out by the Public Accounts Committee ( PAC ) in its Eighth Report of 1986–7 ( HC 98 ) Members said that they wanted documents tailored more specifically to Parliament 's needs in its consideration of departments ' expenditure proposals and put forward three proposals ( Cm. 375 ) . |
| 2 | ‘ Your book ? ’ she enquired , doubtfully , angry with herself for allowing domesticity to prevent her from keeping more up to date with the literary news . |
| 3 | Most goldfish and related fish are sexually mature in their second year , although adulthood is related more directly to size than age . |
| 4 | This sympathy may have explained the level of applause she got at the end of her opening song , so that she came more confidently to centre for her second . |
| 5 | In recent months there has been a lively debate — much of it behind the scenes — into how the hospitality industry can speak more effectively to Government . |
| 6 | Not because they may relate more positively to menstruation and to their sexuality ( as some psychologists have suggested ) , but more likely , I believe , because they rarely have the opportunity to experience menstruation . |
| 7 | The matter of the paper is to present those areas of AI ( some would say that is too parochial and what I shall put forward belongs more generally to Computer Science ) where a mechanical analogue of consciousness might be sought in the future , and to argue that they are not the obvious places , and have not been subjected to much philosophical investigation . |
| 8 | I 've been working in Cleveland , US for 4 months now , and am amazed that I get more up to date information on the week 's activities than when I lived outside London ! |
| 9 | Women died in childbirth , everyone succumbed more readily to disease and people still coveted things which did n't belong to them . ’ |
| 10 | I mean the book itself is just published last , er Thursday I believe it was , and er so it was up to date , is up to date until the summer , which is you know more up to date than any other book , so it 's got things like : Greta Garbo dying , and Princess Eugenie being born and Nelson Mandela being free , and of course it 's the first encyclopaedia to have all the details of nineteen eighty nine , the , the upheaval in , in Europe , all the political changes and whatever . |
| 11 | Cp6 bound more strongly to HLA-B51 than to HLA-B53 but the allelic variants of this peptide with single amino-acid substitutions at position 4 , cp6.1 and cp6.2 , bound more strongly to HLA-B53 and very poorly to HLA-B51 ( data not shown ) . |
| 12 | All this suggests that , one way or another , both institutions will be brought more closely to heel by their big shareholders . |
| 13 | Management was under pressure to set an example on pay restraint and increases were now being linked more closely to performance , Hay said . |
| 14 | The approaches to market segmentation referred to above apply more naturally to consumer markets than to industrial markets , where an entire market may be made up of just a few customers . |
| 15 | It relates more particularly to parish churches , which rarely have single-sex choirs in these days . |
| 16 | H5 has several lysine-to-arginine substitutions relative to H1 , and binds more tightly to chromatin than does H1 . |
| 17 | The interactions between NCp7 and DNA are probably cooperative , since NCp7 was found to bind more efficiently to HIV-1 plasmid DNA than to smaller DNA fragments . |
| 18 | Experience : persons who have been in other types of consulting seem to adapt more rapidly to executive search and this should be an important source of consultants for Heidrick and Struggles . |