Example sentences of "more [adj] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In most instances , however , it is more practicable to base assessments on tests carried out in parallel on carefully selected control products . |
| 2 | Additionally , GPs will be able to consider whether it is more cost-effective to refer patients to the hospital at all , or to handle the care themselves . |
| 3 | And although he is adamant that the hardware business will not be run down , he did say that in future the firm will carefully weigh up whether it is more more cost-effective to manufacture products and components itself or buy them on the open market . |
| 4 | Infanticide is a defence to murder , but it is more usual to charge infanticide in the first place . |
| 5 | Tarama is the salted and dried roe of the grey mullet , but is more usual to use cods ' roe which is easily available from fishmongers and delicatessens . |
| 6 | Corporate customers can buy bankers ' acceptances , but it is more usual to buy bank certificates of deposit ( CDs ) . |
| 7 | Warehouses with more than 20 stacker-cranes are not unknown although it is more usual to find systems with 2 to 6 cranes . |
| 8 | Though orchids are easy to propagate from seed , and exporting them is exempt from Cites rules , traders have found it more profitable to dig plants up instead . |
| 9 | Rather than devoting any more space to criticizing a theory based on nineteenth-century science , it would seem more profitable to follow Freud 's example in going to our current knowledge of the biological basis of sleep in building a psychological model of what dreaming really is . |
| 10 | From the linguistic point of view ( and this is one way in which linguistics differs from philosophy ) it is more profitable to apply terms like " truth " and " reference " to psychological realities : one is not interested in what is really the case , but what particular individuals know or believe to be the case . |
| 11 | After sketching the steamboat , as she lay in the bay unlading her cargo , from the bridge over the water that divides Pultneytown from the old town of Wick , I got into one of the boats leaving the pier , and was landed on board the ‘ St. Nicholas , ’ thinking it would be more pleasant to visit Thurso by sailing round the coast than to go by rail . |
| 12 | Moreover , system investments have created economies of scale where few existed before and have begun to make it more possible to derive benefit from global ‘ scope ’ . |
| 13 | But equally when the relationship , within a system of rules , between means and ends is far from evident , then implementers may be more disposed to break rules , and their supervisors may be disinclined to enforce them . |
| 14 | Economic factors have an important effect on children 's smoking habits and evidence from the USA suggests that teenagers are even more responsive to price increases than are adults . |
| 15 | The advantages of gamma scintigraphy are offset by the fact that patients are required to be static during imaging , whereas it has been shown that it is more reliable to monitor reflux in ambulant patients than patients restricted within a hospital routine . |
| 16 | If these conditions are not met , we assume that it might be more reliable to regard PCNA as a marker with its own evidence to characterise proliferative activity by scoring all PCNA reactive nuclei as positive regardless of staining intensity . |
| 17 | This application was wrong , but somehow it felt as if it would be a lot more wrong to turn Mandy in . |
| 18 | Well I dare say but it 's far more dignified to play golf . |
| 19 | So , for example , in football , whites should be more suited to take penalty and free kicks ( self-paced ) and blacks to more spontaneous out-field range shooting ( reactive ) . |
| 20 | John Major was right when he said Britain as a nation should be more prepared to condemn crime , but wrong when he suggested we should be less concerned to understand it . |
| 21 | A bonus was that he had been so fascinated by his earlier experience that his confidence in hypnotherapy as a whole had grown , and he was far more willing to undergo treatment than he might otherwise have been . |
| 22 | If an employee respects a person for his/her knowledge or ability to do their job , then they will be more willing to take order for this person . |
| 23 | In conditions of high unemployment , employers , having relatively increased bargaining strength , may be in a better position and be more willing to oppose trade unionism . |
| 24 | It 's widely agreed that anonymity has made women more willing to report rapes . |
| 25 | women are more willing to report symptoms ; |
| 26 | There may be a general tendency to exaggerate ; couples seem to be more willing to abandon expectations of a third child than they are to opt for a third child after stating an earlier preference for two . |
| 27 | A long-time adherent to the general principle that he should look around and see areas where he could help , or stir up some kind of improvement , he had lately become more willing to risk controversy . |
| 28 | Underwriters in the insurance markets in London and New York are making no bones about being more willing to insure craft launched with the American orbiter than with Europe 's Ariane rocket , which has suffered a number of teething problems . |
| 29 | We are , or should be , much more willing to allow children to enjoy the special world of childhood without forcing them into premature adulthood . |
| 30 | Because the DUP is more willing to court confrontation with the police and the forces of law and order than is the OUP , working-class loyalists seem to suppose that the DUP endorses and shares their willingness to go even further in seeking confrontation . |