Example sentences of "more [adj] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the records are much more reliable for the later years , the absolute number of marriages declined steadily with the age of the sample . |
| 2 | Although the interaction is again not significant the differences between exemplars are more marked for the high risk junctions than the low risk ones . |
| 3 | From Figures 7.2 and 7.3 it is clear that there is indeed more risk-related information at the high risk junctions and this is more marked for the high risk exemplars than the low risk ones . |
| 4 | Two points are more interesting for the current argument . |
| 5 | Other ways of making life more interesting for the housebound are the occasional holidays in the homes of various members of the family ; also offering to help them to entertain their friends in their own home to more than just a cup of tea , by arranging to take a pre-cooked , easily served meal round to them beforehand . |
| 6 | Basically a picture book , it looks at the great collections of Schukin , Morozov and Costakis , reproducing the well known photos of the interiors of their homes , but is probably more interesting for the lesser-known contemporary names . |
| 7 | More interesting for the British observer has been the lot of the Progressive Democrats , like the late Alliance a new party competing with two older and stronger parties . |
| 8 | To help you choose something more exciting for the budding Nick Faldo or Laura Davies in your family , STEVE NEWELL has plotted an 18-gift course from expensive luxuries to handy stocking fillers : |
| 9 | This synod was transferred by Constantine to the lakeside town of Nicaea , not far from his own palace and more accessible for the two priests sent to represent bishop Silvester of Rome . |
| 10 | The BCU have confirmed that the International Canoe Exhibition will be at Ponds Forge in Sheffield on 20th–21st Feb next year , much more central for the whole country . |
| 11 | It would also be more appropriate for the unambitious students of moderate talents who currently apply for an English degree , but would be more at home in a less intensive programme of liberal study . |
| 12 | Fines and withdrawal of privileges are more appropriate for the school-aged child , and when they are fair and not run into the ground they even appeal to his sense of justice . |
| 13 | These predications were delivered with a considerable force of oratory , all the more chilling for the total lack of humanity and the unreason of the argument . |
| 14 | But if the private world of family life is a world fraught with tension and danger for parents and children , it is far more frightening for the elderly : they may very well find themselves excluded from it . |
| 15 | She argued that if the second statement in a pair contained a negative then it would be more natural for the meaning of the two statements to be different , whereas if the two statements were both affirmative it would be more natural for the two statements to have the same meaning . |
| 16 | When you 're giving feedback to people , yes , there were going to bad things about what they 've done , yes , there 's going to be good things , but if you can catch the bad things between two good things , even if the good things are just saying thank you , they 're going to go away with a bigger smile on their face , and probably feel more motivated for the next time they do that task . |
| 17 | It would seem to be still more inappropriate for the criminal law to deny its protection to parties ( probably a majority in this country ) who have expressly chosen to be married according to a wholly different ceremony . |
| 18 | For both adult and infant mortality rates , two trends are clearly discernible : there has been a substantial reduction in mortality rates for all socio-economic groups ; the reduction , however , has been more substantial for the upper socio-economic groups with the result that socio-economic inequalities have widened over the years . |
| 19 | But it may be a lot more useful for the latter than the former . |
| 20 | More important for the long-term programme of submission was the fact that they agreed to allow Christian missionaries into their lands . |
| 21 | More important for the present discussion , however , was the spatial variability in both support for the strike over the full period and the rate of the drift back to work . |
| 22 | The United Kingdom Chancellor of the Exchequer Norman Lamont said on June 23 that G-7 ministers had concluded that it was more important for the Soviet Union to initiate a programme of domestic economic reform than to be the recipient of massive financial aid . |
| 23 | Third , while of modest significance for US business as a whole , overseas investment was much more important for the giant multinational enterprises . |
| 24 | For many Japanese the rural areas are now more important for the welcome respite they offer to those seeking temporarily to escape the pressures of city life , for inevitably the mushrooming of industry and commerce has led to a massive increase in the rate of urbanization . |
| 25 | Restructuring is more complicated for the bigger junk-bond casualties . |
| 26 | The Government sees that it is more accountable for the individual tenants to pay their Council Tax directly to the local authority rather than to the landlord and unfortunately no agency arrangements can be put in place that would allow this . |
| 27 | Although the enormous difficulties of the German economy could be felt during the Düsseldorf and Hannover fairs , both proved to be more successful for the participating ceramic dealers than last year 's fairs ’ . |
| 28 | Second , the system tends to work for more affluent foreign consumers and domestic elites by making life more difficult for the rural poor . |
| 29 | It seems rather ironic that we are going to make life more difficult for the vast majority of English speaking North American graduates when under European Community regulations we now grant full registration to doctors from several European countries . |
| 30 | More particularly , those who owed their careers and their satisfactions to grammar schools , or were headmasters of them , feared that the progressive elimination of those schools might make it more difficult for the maintained sector to compete effectively with the independent schools . |