Example sentences of "[noun pl] more [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several share KPMG 's view that ‘ the responsibility paragraphs more logically belong outside the report ’ and that ‘ if an uncertainty is properly disclosed in the accounts , such accounts can present a true and fair view without the auditors having to refer to it … a set of accounts should be complete in itself , without having to read the audit opinion ’ . |
| 2 | Furthermore , body measurements at birth are only proxies for variables more closely related to the processes that underlie programming . |
| 3 | It will also inform policy makers and industrial relations practitioners , by examining the consequences of introducing into the public sector management methods more commonly associated with some private sector enterprises . |
| 4 | These are conflicts that exist because managers ' interests are only indirectly and imperfectly linked to profit maximisation , with the result that they are liable to adopt divergent goals more focally connected with increasing the benefits attached to the occupancy of managerial office . |
| 5 | The Earl 's Wood secure unit for young offenders is certainly no hotel — but staying here can clock up the kind of bills more usually seen at the Ritz . |
| 6 | While it is well recognised that London has its own distinctive speech , characterised by features of accent and grammar in particular , there are surprisingly few " dialect " studies of London ( in contrast with , for example , areas more traditionally thought of as using " dialect " , such as Lancashire or Norfolk ) . |
| 7 | Worker bees are three times more closely related to their full sisters than to their half sisters , so workers could enhance their fitness by raising a full sister as the new queen when the colony swarms . |
| 8 | This view of the decade is now very widely accepted , and with reason : political and other stresses at the time did encourage in many quarters a rejection of modernism in favour of documentary , realistic forms more obviously attuned to the contemporary crisis . |
| 9 | Such well-kept secrets more frequently relate to legal disputes about possession , and it often turns out that the estate in question does not belong to the family that lives there , but to a claimant of undistinguished origin . |
| 10 | A placid and leafy place indeed , except that it has also the local nickname of Enfer des palombes or ‘ The wood pigeons ’ hell' , because nowhere are these migrating birds more vigorously hunted on their autumn flight south than around Sare . |
| 11 | Conservative ideologists had had much to say about the case for bringing market conditions more effectively to bear upon the distribution of social services , but only in the housing field had Conservative governments taken steps that represented major responses to this viewpoint . |
| 12 | Royal taxation usually had to be for the defence of the realm , but this was no longer interpreted with the narrow precision attempted by Winchelsey , and clerical objections and conditions more often turned upon other considerations : redress of grievances , exemption from lay burdens such as the ninth and purveyances , or simple impoverishment . |
| 13 | The report was published in July 1986 and concluded that apparently there had been little work done on the effects of skill mix on patient services and that " a higher priority should be given by management to achieving the best value for money by the adoption of methods of allocating staffing resources more closely related to the needs of patients and ward objectives . |
| 14 | It may be helpful to management to express both stock level and debtors in terms of weeks of sales , giving figures more easily related to company day-to-day operations . |
| 15 | It may be helpful to management to express both stock level and debtors in terms of weeks of sales , giving figures more easily related to company day-to-day operations . |
| 16 | Polly thrust it back into her bag , embarrassed at being caught doing things more properly done in a ladies ' cloakroom , and furious at her own embarrassment . |
| 17 | From the Marxist point of view , a process such as secularisation takes a more secondary role in relation to features more closely associated with the functioning of a capitalist economy , and particularly changes in the class structure . |
| 18 | A large number of overseas and international qualifications , such as the International Baccalauréate or the Irish Leaving Certificate , are also accepted : a list of the overseas qualifications more commonly offered by applicants is to be found in the overseas section of this prospectus . |
| 19 | Lawyers may find it helpful to employ communication techniques more commonly used by other child care professionals to ascertain a child 's degree of understanding . |
| 20 | The use of a written procedure was pioneered in the House of Lords where each party has for some years been required to lodge a ‘ Case ’ with the court which is very similar to the skeleton arguments more recently introduced in the Court of Appeal . |
| 21 | Benjamin ( 1975a , pp. 83–4 ) , like Weber , observed that the autonomy of the aesthetic and the separation of spheres more generally result in a ‘ shrinkage of experience ’ , or what Weber called the creation of a class of ‘ specialists without heart ’ . |
| 22 | Which states erm the strategy envisag envisages a progressive reduction in the rate of the population growth from this source , as the supply of housing land is reduced to levels more closely related to the needs arising from North Yorkshire . |
| 23 | Although homoeopathy can work deeply into the organism , and can affect the deeper emotional , mental and spiritual levels , therapies more specifically aimed at developing the spiritual aspects of human beings may well be needed in addition as the root of the cancer problem often lies at this level . |
| 24 | Accidents more commonly occur in dark stables than those that have a glimmer of light . |
| 25 | For instance ivory was sometimes used in Sumer and the Aegean to make the seals more commonly made from different kinds of stone . |
| 26 | ( Has he , too , noted in the informal engagement announcement photographs the New York Times has recently taken to running that the couples more often look like siblings than prospective husbands and wives ? |
| 27 | The police more often came under physical attack and began to respond with a steadily escalating counter-violence . |
| 28 | Richly-decorated Saloon Bars more closely approximate to the modern idea of a Victorian pub . |
| 29 | The economic difficulties of older people are probably a far stronger cause of demoralization than other factors more closely associated with elderly morale , such as illness and pain . |
| 30 | A distinct shift took place from the staple export industries of the last century to a range of industries more closely linked to domestic markets and reliant on new technologies ( Cronin , 1984 ) . |