Example sentences of "[coord] more [adj] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would such a move have m–de it easier or more difficult to confront the local police about their failure to protect the black community from racial attack ? |
| 2 | In view of the fact that the methods of obtaining suitable labour may be time-consuming , it is preferable and more efficient to maintain a detailed register of labour-only sub-contractors . |
| 3 | Such businesses are not going to survive in the face of the pressure being applied by insurance companies to have their customers only deal with approved repairers , particularly when it is becoming harder and more expensive to become an approved repairer and then maintain one 's company as such . |
| 4 | For a deep , steep curve it is probably easier and more accurate to take a pattern of half the arch , and spread this to fit the curtain fabric width , as follows : |
| 5 | As we probe further it will become more and more necessary to re-assess the relationship between the two modes as dialectical rather than that of opposites . |
| 6 | What is more disturbing today is that the Germans have been quicker and more successful to recognise the causes of the decline in their research community than we have in the UK . |
| 7 | It is safer and more conclusive to let the shoplifter pass through any cashout without paying ; |
| 8 | None the less James could also acknowledge that " There is no teacher of English in our universities more desirous and more able to make the study of English literature a living power than Dr. Leavis . " |
| 9 | As has been shown , analysis of NCTs main 1979 survey results demonstrates that in general poorer people , less well educated people , those in lower social classes , old people and women rather than men are less well informed about credit , and more likely to use a type of credit out of habit or convenience rather than as a matter of rational choice . |
| 10 | In particular , mothers were socioeconomically disadvantaged , younger , and more likely to smoke and their infants were of lower birth weight and more likely to share a bed with another person . |
| 11 | This is unlikely to get the ‘ poor-thing-he 's deaf reaction and more likely to get the ‘ well-how-clever ’ reaction . |
| 12 | In terms of location , County libraries were most likely to devote specified managerial time to training , more likely to describe specific training functions of managers and more likely to note a named training officer ( see Table 20 ) . |
| 13 | They were more likely to find an area if a grid of squares was provided , and more likely to find a perimeter if there was no grid but distances round the edges of the figure were labelled ; the use of the terms " perimeter " and " area " , especially the latter , reduced success . |
| 14 | I did my best , but it became more and more difficult to do the work on the farm and look after him . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's more and more difficult to sell the fruit to supermarkets because they 're almost asking for the impossible , ’ he said . |
| 16 | It was getting more and more difficult to feed the cat — and to feed himself . |
| 17 | Black and Tan outrages had drawn only lame excuses , even denials , from the Government , and it was becoming more and more difficult to contradict the widespread assertion — by the local newspapers , by the man in the street , even by the RIC themselves — that the whole purpose of the Black and Tans was to crush Sinn Fein and the Irish Republican Army and cow the population . |
| 18 | It has emerged in many countries that , as the standard of living rises , it is more and more difficult to run an autocratic production system using the indigenous labour force . |
| 19 | It was , in other words , becoming more and more difficult to postpone the future . |
| 20 | ‘ Instead of employing these appalling tactics with these families , it would be statesmanlike and more courageous to press the United Nations to lift its economic boycott of Vietnam now that Vietnamese forces have left Cambodia , ’ he said . |
| 21 | People with cystic fibrosis are less likely to achieve O level or equivalent qualifications than the general population but more likely to have A levels , and women with cystic fibrosis are more likely to have degrees . |