Example sentences of "more [adj] [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But eventually the arguments all boil down to the fact that it is more economic to harvest the rainforest sustainably than clear-fell it in the idiotic way we have been doing until now , and that this is of immense benefit to us , the human species , because of the maintenance of that genetic diversity which will cure all sorts of dreadful diseases in the future . |
| 2 | Today , it is more usual to replace the base with marine ply . |
| 3 | In English it is more usual to use a hyphen as in co-operate . |
| 4 | There are so many anglers fishing for carp today , not all of them recognising or caring that carp can be frightened very easily , it is now more usual to ignore the area immediately in front of you and cast , with specialised tackle , as far as possible . |
| 5 | Only in a few instances were brass or copper depositum plates provided , for it was more usual to outline the initials , date of death and age of the occupant on to the lid with black-headed upholstery nails with the possible addition of a skull and crossbones outlined at the head of the lid , whilst the sides were decorated with a single row of close-set nails all round . |
| 6 | It was all the wrong way round , I thought : it was more usual to know the crime and seek the criminal , than to know the criminal and seek his crime . |
| 7 | Nida similarly explains that ‘ in some Nilotic languages the passive forms of verbs are so preferred that instead of saying ‘ he went to town ’ , it is much more normal to employ an expression such as ‘ the town was gone to by him ’ . |
| 8 | Without exports to put an edge on the market breeders find it more profitable to put a Charolais on their Welsh Black cows . ’ |
| 9 | He has grasped that it is more profitable to attack the Government for incompetence and negligence than to present it as a systematic and all-too-competent conspiracy against the people . |
| 10 | I saw this good-looking redhead with a bust to challenge Shakti 's — a sight which was getting rarer and rarer as women were made to get thinner and thinner for the convenience of the multi-billion dress designing industry , much easier and hence more economical and hence more profitable to clothe a bean pole than an hour glass — walking my way . |
| 11 | In studying the expansion of metals when they are heated , it is more profitable to limit the role of observers ' intuitions to , for instance , judgements of the position of the top of a column of mercury relative to a graduated scale . |
| 12 | Second , the services that GPs must provide under the contract have been made more specific to reflect the government 's view of " good general practice " . |
| 13 | The reason for this might be that it feels more possible to grieve the death of someone or something that is perhaps significant , but not so important as the death of the spouse . |
| 14 | Never has the time been more opportune to revive the worship of the Great Earth Goddess and her consorts ( History of the World NI 196 ) . |
| 15 | Information technologists have no more right to dictate the course of language than any other group . |
| 16 | The answer is simple ; there need be no judge and no moral dilemma if parents and doctors accept that they have no more right to end the life of a handicapped child than they do for any child which enters this world . |
| 17 | There appears to be no method more reliable to check the degree of redness , pinkness or greyness that you desire then sticking in your knife into the thickest point of the meat . |
| 18 | They 're more prepared to do the dishes or change nappies . |
| 19 | Relevant , too , are the views of individual judges about the role of the courts in interpreting and applying legislation : some judges may be more prepared to find an ambiguity in statutory language than others or even to interpret a statute ‘ purposively ’ in order to achieve a desired result . |
| 20 | The result is quite striking : the richer respondents claim to be more prepared to break the law than the poorer ones , despite their apparent lesser chances of actually breaking it from the conviction statistics . |
| 21 | Among those aged 46 or more ( approximately those born before the Second World War ) , the relationship is as it seemed from the bivariate table : the more highly educated are more prepared to break the law . |
| 22 | But among the post-war generations , the relationship has the opposite sign : the less educated are the ones who say they are more prepared to break the law . |
| 23 | Despite the difficulties in changing attitudes outlined in this chapter , there is little doubt that workers in mainstream social services provision were more prepared to accept the idea and practical implications of integration provision than those in mainstream education . |
| 24 | The ‘ new realism ’ of the left is more willing to acknowledge the limits of public spending and the need to encourage entrepreneurship . |
| 25 | The bulk of those who remain interested in UFOs seem less likely to have been motivated by personal experience and are more willing to undergo the reappraisal needed to rationalise their approach . |
| 26 | The fact that they seem more willing to take a chance on change suggests that a new era may be dawning which represents a new problem for beleagured British Prime Minister John Major . |
| 27 | Developing-country governments have been more willing to join the cause . |
| 28 | Teachers appear to be more willing to support the development of a common core curriculum ( Venning , 1979 ; Wicksteed & Hill , 1979 ) : a change that is mirrored by opinions in the ‘ Week by Week ’ column of Education ( 2 Nov. 1979 : 11 Jan. 1980 ) which tries to reflect the current climate . |
| 29 | It has turned away from old style nationalization and is more willing to admit the need for enterprise and a role for markets . |
| 30 | In some areas the judiciary seems more willing to limit the exercise of discretionary powers ; in others , less willing , even reluctant . |