Example sentences of "more [adv] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By engaging in some instances in dialogue directly with local and regional authorities and by-passing national governments , the Commission hoped to be able to co-ordinate the allocation of the Structural Funds and direct aid more effectively to the problem areas , thereby also implicitly weakening the influence of national government upon the use of EC funding . |
| 2 | The briefing pack accompanying Working for patients ( DoH , 1989h ) claims that at ‘ Regional and district level planning will be able to respond more effectively to the health needs of the population rather than being tied to details of the operational delivery of services ’ . |
| 3 | Here again , a large amount of work has been done on the analysis of written discourse for students of ESP and EAP ( see , for example , Selinker , Tarone , and Hanzeli 1981 ) , but there is no reason why the same techniques can not be applied more widely to the production and processing of writing of more general interest . |
| 4 | There is one other almost essential ingredient of the romantic suspense story that can hardly be avoided and yet which perhaps presents difficulties to anyone whose interest is more in the human relationships that are the core of this kind of book than in physical action and violence , things which seem to belong more properly to the thriller . |
| 5 | Please pray that many viewers may be able to share in that worship and find it helpful and that some who would otherwise ‘ switch off ’ will be drawn in to the programme and more importantly to the Lord Himself . |
| 6 | erm That 'll be more down to the chairman than myself , he 'll put you more in line with that . |
| 7 | The coast at Shurton Bars shelves more gently to the sea than at many points farther west , and in the eighteenth century still provided a landing-place for infrequent trading vessels which brought coal from Wales for coastal lime-kilns and West Somerset hearths . |
| 8 | In the second half , Thame came more in to the game and created a couple of chances , however in the sixty fifth minute , Sean Liden won the ball on the halfway line , his long ball found Gary Weaving who turned and placed a low shot past Mayhew to make it one nil . |
| 9 | A bold , and on first acquaintance awkward , start leads to the corner which is well protected and followed ever more steeply to the crux at the top . |
| 10 | Acceptance of a social charter might lead more easily to the achievement of the goals to which the hon. Member referred . |
| 11 | Species such as these which will accept a wide range of foods in nature are likely to settle down more easily to the aquarium feeding pattern . |
| 12 | He argued that either symbol was used whenever it fell more easily to the hand . |
| 13 | Others attempted to alter it , or to enforce it when land was left by the will to the children alone , rather than as more usually to the widow or the widow and children jointly . |
| 14 | A single , 50 metre abseil from the peg leads more quickly to the top of the final couloir , which is followed in three full abseils to the Charpoua Glacier . |
| 15 | With film , similarly , TV at first was starved , then it did the deals bringing more feature films more quickly to the screen . |
| 16 | committing ourselves ever more deeply to the ministry of communication which we have been called to share . |
| 17 | If , for example , we reduce the share of the system taken up by intervention in beef , we should be able to get that money more directly to the farmer . |
| 18 | Had it not been for one other factor , it seems likely that the combined pressures upon English both from inside and outside the discipline might well have caused it to accommodate itself more directly to the service of " vocationalism " , and " social responsibility " , and thus the needs of interdisciplinary and applied work . |
| 19 | Benjamin was the oldest of the Frankfurt writers and related more directly to the neo-Kantianism of a previous generation of German scholars , which included Simmel and Weber , than did Adorno or Marcuse . |
| 20 | In some other cases , for example in national liberation struggles , armed conflict may lead even more directly to the emergence of strongly reform-oriented or revolutionary movements , and to changes of political regime which go beyond the attainment of national independence . |
| 21 | Harvey 's group , for example , found that peeling paint in the home related to lower IQ , but that it was nothing to do with lead in the paint , relating more probably to the influence of the parents . |
| 22 | Before I left the fortress , in the late afternoon I climbed once more up to the guardian 's hut to say goodbye . |
| 23 | It is arguable that if each side could communicate its opinions more clearly to the other , the resulting conflict would be even more embittered . |
| 24 | Even if Shilton , inevitably cautious in his 41st year , is now most likely to be found out by teasing centres ( never mind the ‘ hand of God ’ , he should have been quicker , more positively to the ball than Diego Maradona in Mexico four years ago ) , his reliable and spectacular shot-stopping in Poland emphasised glaring inadequacies stemming from the grossly misguided philosophy that continues to gain ground in the Football League . |
| 25 | Patients and relatives responded more positively to the ward survey than did visitors . |
| 26 | Of course , Anisminic is authority only in relation to the precise wording of the provision in issue in that case , and so courts are able to interpret different wording more favourably to the government . |
| 27 | Crosslinking of DNA ( 386–400 ) to NCp7 mutants ( fig. 2A , lanes 5–16 ) was seen with all of the mutants used , although NCp7B ( lanes 8–10 ) and NCp7C ( lanes 11–13 ) were crosslinked more efficiently to the DNA than NCp7A ( lanes 5–7 ) or NCp7D ( lanes 14–16 ) . |
| 28 | Digby Wyatt 's earliest extant building is the Gothic Aldingham Hall , Cumbria , of 1846 to 1850 , and although he designed the Pompeian , Byzantine , English Gothic , Italian and Renaissance Courts at the re-erected Crystal Palace at Sydenham in 1854 , and The Art Journal commented that he had ‘ in practice attached himself more heartily to the classic ’ , he felt , like Scott , that the nineteenth century should have its particular form of architecture , but unlike Scott , he thought that this should be an adaptation of the Cinquecento style . |
| 29 | They will also come over much more convincingly to the viewer or radio audience . |
| 30 | The Second World War brought unity proposals more securely to the fore in surprisingly diverse places . |