Example sentences of "more [adj] and [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Type II model may lead to inequity between health care groups since large amounts of a health authority 's budget would be compulsorily diverted to those areas where patients are more mobile and where providers find it most profitable to supply services , i.e. mainly elective surgery . |
| 2 | On the other hand , Type II systems would appear to allow little scope for equity between groups since large amounts of a health authority 's budget would be compulsorily diverted to those areas where patients are more mobile and where providers find it most profitable to supply services , that is mainly elective surgery . |
| 3 | Edmund Barham 's wooden acting as Carlos would have mattered less if he had been vocally more alluring and if his stilted phrasing had taken a hint from Mark Elder 's conducting . |
| 4 | Buxtehude has set out to show that if cyclists can be persuaded to be disciplined , if pedestrians can be more tolerant and if the police will be more supportive then mixing the modes is possible . |
| 5 | Is it a function of ageing or simply that the mode of communication may become more restrained and that the emotional experiences are as rich as ever ? |
| 6 | erm the other view , of course , is that medicine should have become much more scientific and that these almost old wives remedies should have been disgraced and discontinued . |
| 7 | Although many of the techniques are similar to those needed for cold and hot water plumbing , the consequences of making a mistake are potentially much more serious and if you are found out , you could be heavily fined . |
| 8 | Electrostatic paper is even more delicate and if handled with damp hands the image will blur as the silver coating dissolves . |
| 9 | The first set of surveys revealed considerable support for the main principles of the reforms : 85 per cent of DGMs described their general attitude to the NHS and Community Care Act as " mostly approve with some reservations " and 6 per cent had no reservations at all ; 87 per cent agreed with the separation of purchasing from provision ; 88 per cent considered the reforms would make the NHS more business-like and that this was a good thing . |
| 10 | The fans are more fanatical and although we had some great times at Goodison , this could be something else . |
| 11 | well I 'd go along with that but what I was saying was I , I thought you might become more confrontational and if you were then we 'd 've got into a bit of a tennis match there and but then you did n't go down that route , that 's what I 'm saying , you did n't actually go down that cos if you had 've done we 'd 've got nowhere |
| 12 | My husband says I am calmer and more relaxed and that I have had a much more positive outlook on life ! |
| 13 | " only result seemed to shew that the parents of Stockport families preferred a cheap commercial education to a more expensive higher intellectual one and that the latter was necessarily more costly and that the Grammar School fees could not possibly be reduced to the level of the Technical School fees , that School being subsidised by Excise Duties and Government Grants to the amount of double the fees received from Scholars . " |
| 14 | Whilst agreeing in part but disagreeing substantially with the assumptions of Ludmer , I felt — and still feel — that the attraction of sport for black kids is a little more complex and that any full understanding can not assume that sport constitutes an area freed of racialism , or that black youths are attracted to it simply because they see it as such . |
| 15 | The state apparatus is getting stronger as the economy is transformed by scientific and technological developments , as planning becomes more complex and as society generally becomes more educated . |
| 16 | However , this progress should not disguise the fact that more than half the teaching staff in further education still lack a recognised teaching qualification , an unhappy state of affairs at a time when their task as teachers grows ever more complex and when the overlap with secondary schools becomes more and more marked . |
| 17 | The hon. Member for Teignbridge can not argue simply that nuclear power is cleaner and environmentally more safe and that it should therefore always take precedence over coal , because we can do things to coal that would make it environmentally far more acceptable . |
| 18 | Corrosion is severest closer to the outer leaf where damp is more severe and where the rust expands , forcing open the mortar joints , and in extreme cases causing bulging and cracking of the wall which is visible externally . |
| 19 | Under F R S Three which is the erm everything above the line earnings a a covers down , earnings down from two one to one six , not much change on the adjusted earnings which we think is perhaps more meaningful and if you look at the cash generation the test of whether you can pay it a very significant improvement from one two to one point seven times . |
| 20 | Protagonists argue that the nation 's defence is more important and that the mere possession of nuclear weapons prevents attack by other nuclear powers . |
| 21 | Also Leslie Silver said in the paper that although he wanted the national team to do well he thought that Leeds winning the title was far more important and that he would fight ‘ tooth and nail to keep Howard Wilkinson at Leeds ’ |
| 22 | As adults , we face the fact that our charming sympathetic introduction to animals becomes more complicated and that we are not fair to ourselves or to the animals if we identify with them . |
| 23 | Classrooms became ever more informal and when new schools were built their very shape and design proclaimed acceptance of a way of thinking about young children 's learning which was often quite alien to the more traditional views of parents . |
| 24 | The dark clouds had become more compact and although it was still only late morning , it was as dark as a gathering twilight . |
| 25 | Insurance , both life and non-life , has been rapidly expanding in recent years and this is a continuing trend as people and companies become more risk-conscious and because of the growth in the pensions industry . |
| 26 | This sort of tactic , or cheating , clearly does not have a place in rugby at any level , and I trust that linesmen and referees will be more vigilant and that the TV pundits accept the evidence of their eyes and expose the practitioners of dangerous tactics . |
| 27 | Of the two Asian models for Vietnamese independence , China and Japan , China was always more immediate and when at last the Chinese Empire fell to pieces and the Manchu dynasty ended in 1911 , the impact of this revolution was full of promise for Vietnam . |
| 28 | Of course we shall want to ensure that their learning becomes more systematic and that their horizons are widened to encompass ways of thinking which they would not encounter if left to their own devices . |
| 29 | He confirmed there was no more available and that a small addition would not colour match . |
| 30 | Popular protest movements are becoming more common and although they are usually multi-class in membership , they often originate in poor urban neighbourhoods . |