Example sentences of "[be] more [adj] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very shortly after the declaration of war with Spain on 25 April 1898 the Quartermaster approved two new jackets for optional undress and field use by officers , both presumably being felt to be more practical than the smart but confining stand-collar coat of 1895 . |
| 2 | A drop in voltage can be more serious than a power cut . |
| 3 | ‘ What could be more serious than the trouble Craig is in ? ’ |
| 4 | It ca n't be more serious than the Fourths , can it ? |
| 5 | Little can be more disreputable than a Government who hang on to their jobs while pursuing policies that guarantee that thousands of other people will lose theirs . |
| 6 | As it is not obvious that fluctuations in the galaxy distribution should exactly match those of the mass density field ( for example , if galaxies form at the peaks of the mass-density field they will be more correlated than the mass ) , we allow the variance of the two distributions to vary on large scales by the square of a bias factor , b , defined as |
| 7 | Er if I may I 'll speak and then I 'll give you an amendment which I think will be more constructive than the proposed resolution . |
| 8 | After hours of exhilarating exercise in the bracing Highland air , what could be more relaxing than the pampered luxury and soothing ambience of the Country Club ? |
| 9 | A filofax can be more useful than a conventional diary as an aid to time management . |
| 10 | When the objectives of the analysis are clearer , a selective transcription will be more useful than a detailed one , which is at that later stage of the research likely to contain much unwanted information . |
| 11 | Problems of this kind tend to be more pronounced if the left side of the visual field in each eye is affected . |
| 12 | Further , what could be more homogenous than the creations of C. P. Snow ? |
| 13 | Now what could be more mouthwatering than a big plate of juicy , tender ribs drippin' with barbecue sauce ? |
| 14 | The private enterprise sheriffs used by the High Court are paid on results and are considered to be more efficient than the public servant County Court bailiffs who get their salaries regardless of results . |
| 15 | Nigel assured me that it would be more efficient than the wheel and produce considerably more electricity , and I had to be content with that . |
| 16 | SIR — I believe that if a current inventory of known insect and other species was available , descriptive work might be more efficient than the current 20 per cent wastage rate ( due to synonymy ) . |
| 17 | Carzo and Yanouzas suggested that if work is organised on the basis of small groups or project teams ( therefore narrow spans of control and a tall organisation structure ) group members would be able to plan their work in an orderly manner , encourage participation by all group members in decision-making and monitor the consequences of their decisions better , so that their performance will be more efficient than the work of groups in a flat structure with a wide span of control . |
| 18 | Breathing in this way will be more efficient if the body is of the size and shape that gives maximum skin area and minimum body volume and this indeed , is just what is found among these lungless salamanders ; their bodies are thin and elongated and none of them grows to more than a few centimetres in length . |
| 19 | Equally a group with a wider range of talents in its midst tends to be more effective than a group with a narrow range of talents . |
| 20 | They can also be seen in the popularity in France of the idea of attacks on British commerce as a means of forcing the traditional enemy to her knees , the belief that a guerre de course of this kind , avoiding large-scale engagements and making extensive use of privateers , would be more effective than a strategy which aimed at securing effective control of the seas . |
| 21 | Possibly an HM government warning about bad breath would be more effective than the present slogan . |
| 22 | Schools tend to be more effective when the relationship between the teachers and pupils is ‘ good ’ and when the latter are offered status and respect ; when expectations are high ; when there is an emphasis on rewarding good , rather than punishing bad , behaviour ; when there is an overall approach characteristically described as neither permissive nor authoritarian . |
| 23 | Library education will be more effective if the student understands what he is doing and why he is doing it — that is , if new facts can be related to existing knowledge . |
| 24 | So , the Keynesian argues that monetary policy will be more effective if the authorities aim to control interest rates directly , rather than indirectly through the money supply . |
| 25 | This is likely to be more effective if the Compact Co-ordinator is a member of the senior management team . |
| 26 | We hypothesised that inhaled NO might be more effective if the pulmonary steal were to be increased by increasing hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction . |
| 27 | The garden walls appear to be more archaic than the house . |
| 28 | The Language Master is likely to be more successful than a wall-chart , because the child hears the word as well as seeing it . |
| 29 | The completed garment will be more successful if the right type of stitch is selected . |
| 30 | Their conversations with suspects are likely to be more intelligible than the form-filling friendliness of any number of custody officers . |