Example sentences of "more [adj] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've re-aligned our cost space which makes us more profitable at the existing levels of demand and potentially very profitable indeed er er when you consider that we have the capacity to respond to any upturn in demand without increasing our costs . |
| 2 | Attempts to make this cost reflection more sophisticated at a later date were , however , jeopardised by internal BEA politics , which reduced initiatives to the lowest common denominator acceptable to the Area Boards . |
| 3 | There was , of course , now a great deal more interest in Eliot than in the play , but he had stipulated in advance that he was not to be subjected to any form of publicity : no press conferences , no interviews , no speeches ; as a result , he was much more relaxed at the first night and was even able to laugh at his own jokes . |
| 4 | These are said to indicate two broad phases , one apparently following the line of the mid to late second-century north-south cross-street , which is especially prominent towards the western end of the defended enclosure , the other seemingly having its own distinctive alignment more akin to the line of the road running north from the main crossroads ; this is more obvious at the eastern end , and might therefore be earlier in origin . |
| 5 | Species shoals ensure males and females develop together making spawning more feasible at a future date . |
| 6 | He was far more impressed at the fair in Guérande , an old fortified town north-west of St Nazaire , which he visited during his walking tour of Brittany with Du Camp in 1847 . |
| 7 | But they were a good deal more important at a symbolic level . |
| 8 | But more recently , as companies have become more and more concerned at the escalating costs of purchasing and maintaining increasingly advanced technological capabilities , fundamental questions are being asked as to how the use of IT gives a company strategic advantage — if it does [ Earl ( 1988 ) ; Bruce ( 1988 ) ] . |
| 9 | Maxim wondered why he was n't more shocked at the instinctive distrust implied by that decision , and sighed as he realised it was because he 'd been nearly six months in the atmosphere of Whitehall . |
| 10 | This double characterisation was made more hilarious at the first performances when the bossy one was danced by Helpmann , and later the taller MacMillan , with wonderfully extended développés , and the shyer one by Ashton with dainty attempts to be correct at all costs . |
| 11 | Training will have made dancers more adept at a certain style of dance and they usually show preference fur a certain type of step : elevation , pointe work , pirouettes or whatever . |
| 12 | I believe it 's going to be a lot more difficult at the lower end of the scale unless the new Football League can come up with really competitive sponsors and TV agreements . ’ |
| 13 | Some are usually more common at a particular age . |
| 14 | In much of the writing on the dependent elderly , the assumption has been made that retirement has become more common at an earlier age because of a reduction in the demand for elderly workers . |
| 15 | THESE are more common at the lower end of the spectrum , but players are known to have received appearance fees from different sources . |
| 16 | Golf : Faldo ready to produce more magic at the 11th |
| 17 | It should be noted that this type of shelf should be replaced with something more suitable at the earliest opportunity . |
| 18 | Well after the break , you can buy them , this is one of them , for as little as twenty five pounds , Elton John 's been wearing something altogether more expensive at the High Court this week but does it look much better ? |