Example sentences of "are more [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DRDA application programming interfaces are more complex to write to than SAG APIs , he says . |
| 2 | DRDA application programming interfaces are more complex to write to than the SQL Access Group interfaces , he says . |
| 3 | Not only are the New Compact Pampers less effort for mums , but they 're more environmentally friendly too — as they use 20% less raw material and are more efficient to transport . |
| 4 | But my principal aim is to help to create a mood in which individual teachers are more keen to push for their own changes , and to become more effective in doing so . |
| 5 | Thus , while all three publishers will be publishing different novelisation titles based on the series , the publication rights for annuals and calendars ( which are more akin to merchandise than books ) went to BBC Enterprises . |
| 6 | Certain people ( and presumably certain cats ) are more susceptible to stress than others , but given the right external environment , even the most phlegmatic individual would eventually succumb . |
| 7 | Another reason has to do with the relative imprecision with which those theories that , arguably , are more susceptible to direct testing are couched . |
| 8 | Although it has been traditionally assumed that Labour Governments are more susceptible to defeat in the Lords than Conservative administrations , Brazier concludes that the Lords have been surprisingly even-handed in dealing out legislative defeats . |
| 9 | These values highlight that some tissues are more susceptible to damage than others . |
| 10 | Alcohol abuse in Scotland is its own special problem , and for all their importance as the working-class aristocracy of Scottish society , footballers are more vulnerable to drink than most . |
| 11 | The principles apply equally to inconstant traits , but are more clumsy to express . |
| 12 | From this general , and somewhat-pessimistic picture it is necessary to assert that in most regions there are quite distinct potentials for growth , but some of these are more easy to exploit than others , even given sufficient investment and other inputs . |
| 13 | A method of recognising that some age groups are more expensive to teach , for example , those at examination level which require specific books and materials . |
| 14 | In defence of the charges , David Moffat , fund manager of Eagle Star European ( 071–929 1111 ) , agrees that unit trusts are more expensive to buy but argues that with investment trusts there are dealing charges on purchase and sale , and that it is better to pay a percentage at the beginning when the fund is worth less than on redemption when , hopefully , it should be worth substantially more ! |
| 15 | Closed-centre systems are more expensive to build , less sensitive to engine rpm , less wasteful of engine power , have sharper response and can cope better with simultaneous demands . |
| 16 | The explanation for this is that an automatic car is not always immediately available and they are more expensive to produce . |
| 17 | Unlike their Western counterparts , who usually strive for individual expression and the creation of a new visual language , oriental textile artists are more content to reproduce the time-honoured designs of their ancestors and seek to express a collective rather than an individual view of their world . |
| 18 | Modern elite theorists are more concerned to analyse the role played by elites in society than to use their internal characteristics as unified elites to explain their predominance . |
| 19 | The ‘ kinship defenders ’ are more concerned to press for policy changes , such as more day-care provision to help one-parent families , as urgently necessary ; the other group perhaps sees such changes as more long term , as not immediately related to the needs of the children who are currently the subject of placement decisions . |
| 20 | Rather they are more concerned to instil discipline , directly and indirectly on those people who are no longer controlled by the soft discipline machine at work , and who might become growingly resentful that they are being made to pay the price of the economic recession . |
| 21 | Parliamentary question time is frequently noisy ; the interchanges are more concerned to make debating points than to add to public enlightenment . |
| 22 | are more concerned to maintain good human relationships at work than to ensure that tasks are carried out efficiently |
| 23 | Whilst not denying the symbolic role of leaders , radical elite theorists are more concerned to establish that behind the diversity of official power holders in every liberal democracy there is a defacto centralization of ‘ real ’ decision-making power in the hands of a core executive : the locus of the power elite . |
| 24 | Economists are more concerned to find similarities among firms than to explain the differences . |
| 25 | — A maintenance depot with better buildings which are more economical to maintain . |
| 26 | The men , who are interested in cash , are more liable to go for the big wood . |
| 27 | Another study , on Indonesia , has suggested that the TNCs are more liable to attract managers from local firms than to do their own training ( Okada , 1983 ) . |
| 28 | Upon excitation by an electron beam , such local sites of crystal imperfection are more liable to absorb energy from the beam than are neighbouring lattice sites . |
| 29 | Some have a marked reluctance to break out new growth from the base , and are more ready to sprout shoots from growth high up . |
| 30 | He then goes on to say that he would like the plebeians to believe him because he is an honourable man , they respect him and to remember his honourable reputation so that they are more ready to believe him . |