Example sentences of "more [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is more practicable to provide higher concentrates in powder form . |
| 2 | It is often more economic to use softened water to supply machines rather than combat hardness salts with a sequestrant load detergents . |
| 3 | Your employer may consider it more cost-effective to retain junior employees who are paid less than you . |
| 4 | Would it not be more cost-effective to use auxiliary jet pilots who have come out of the service under ’ Options for Change ’ than to train women as fast jet pilots , however keen they may be ? |
| 5 | It is more usual to see individual carp , or just one or two together . |
| 6 | In recent times it is more usual to have some element of discussion , partly because of the increasingly democratic style of organisations and partly because the variety of relevant technology requires a correspondingly wide range of expertise . |
| 7 | If the odorous compound is sufficiently concentrated it may be burned directly provided there is an adequate oxygen supply , but it is more usual to require auxiliary oxygen and fuel supplies . |
| 8 | Readers have suggested that it might have been more profitable to give more space to fewer sorts of vegetable , but that would have been something of a soft option . |
| 9 | No wonder investigators have found it more profitable to examine this problem in animals , where it is much easier to programme experience and ensure that only single events are studied without the influence of others . |
| 10 | It is annoying to have to spend extra money on postage for a small order , but even more annoying to experience considerable delay in obtaining the book for our customer . |
| 11 | The more innovative included accelerated depreciation on ‘ special machinery ’ , ‘ special repairs ’ ( to heavy plant ) , research and development , exemption from tax on income from sales of ‘ important new products ’ , exemption from customs duty on ‘ important equipment ’ and exemption of certain exports from income tax . |
| 12 | In three studies , pancreatitis was induced chamically , and in one by ligature of the pancreatic duct — a model that is probably more analogous to ERCP induced pancreatitis . |
| 13 | But by a quirk of technology and accounting practice , business has been more prepared to replace ageing computer equipment than upgrade it . |
| 14 | Idomenée ( 1712 ) shows that as time passed Campra was more prepared to feature remoter keys when expressing emotional tension : its chilling dénouement , in which Idomenée becomes aware that he has slain his own son , is in B♭ minor , with modulations to D♭ major , G♭ major and E♭ minor . |
| 15 | She has also proved more willing to allocate political honours to party workers than was Mr Heath who had been particularly niggardly in this regard . |
| 16 | This makes manufacturers more willing to take lower prices to get established Stateside . |
| 17 | However , where attempts are made to build up monopoly by merger there has been a heightened awareness of the inherent dangers , and governments have been more willing to take direct action to prohibit them . |
| 18 | The ex-CID officer was more reticent about the perks of the job , more willing to see those offers as the practice in other forces . |
| 19 | Although common law jurisdictions are more willing to validate judicial customs that create documents of title than are civil law jurisdictions even in common law validation has been mostly legislative . |
| 20 | Some industrial consumers regretted that the Boards ' attitudes to tariffs were much more rigid than that of their predecessors ( who had been more willing to negotiate special rates ) . |
| 21 | Dudley also proved more willing to appoint ducal servants to offices in his gift and to employ them in his own administration . |
| 22 | Dudley also proved more willing to appoint ducal servants to offices in his gift and to employ them in his own administration . |
| 23 | One is that they are more willing to explore new skills ; the other is that Imo herself was young , and macaques interact most with other individuals in their troop of a similar age to themselves . |
| 24 | Baker immediately praised Assad 's response as positive , saying that it had demonstrated that Syria was now more willing to enter direct peace talks with Israel than at any time in the past . |
| 25 | Russia backed Austria , only to make plain in 1851 that she was no more willing to contemplate Viennese domination of German affairs than she had been to back Prussian . |
| 26 | However if the actual price level turned out to be higher in t than was expected at the end of t - 1 , firms would be more willing to produce extra output and y t , would exceed y * ; . |
| 27 | If it is the latter , then we are seeing a constant rate of rape over the last decade but where women are more willing to make legal complaints and the police and courts not willing to convict other than a very small increase in the number . |
| 28 | In the absence of any military presence in this area in the third century , it would be more sensible to identify this figure with a smith-god . |
| 29 | She said : ‘ Everyone appears to agree it is more sensible to keep this traffic on rail but it has taken the efforts of hundreds of people to get a six-month reprieve . |
| 30 | No matter what your business commitments , it is far more sensible to have one day at home in bed to recover from the worst of the virus than to struggle in to work , extending the recuperation period enormously and giving the virus to everyone else . |