Example sentences of "more [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SOME families are more given to kissing than others ; one sees them at railway stations kissing a whole carriage-full of friends as they prepare to say goodbye . |
| 2 | The social historian can now fit this slump into the wider pattern of events that was to add up to the Great Depression but at the time motion-picture executives in production and distribution were more given to introspection than to socio-economic analysis . |
| 3 | Doing anything more led to agony , sleepless nights , months of drinking and moping and boring her closest friends to death . |
| 4 | Ball and Lacey , for instance , have pointed to the tendency of non-specialist English teachers to be more attracted to transmission pedagogies than their specialist counterparts are . |
| 5 | The left coalition appears more committed to moderation and compromise , yet it is unlikely to be rewarded with the electorate 's gratitude . |
| 6 | They had been shocked by the ‘ reality ’ they had come across and were more committed to action . |
| 7 | In winter more confined to coast than Herring and Lesser Black-back. 25–31 in. ( 64 79 cm . ) . |
| 8 | I guess a few more came to light . |
| 9 | This could be done by charging on the basis of marginal supply cost for water ( if feasible ) and redistributing income , to allow people to allocate their income between water and other goods on the basis of market prices , or charging on a basis more related to income than to use ( e.g. based upon property valuations ) . |
| 10 | The opposite will also apply of course , and labour only sub-contract rates are sometimes more related to market conditions than to the actual work content . |
| 11 | City cyclists more used to traffic fumes will breathe deeply in the clean air around Lake Bolsen in Italy . |
| 12 | Sponsorship for V&R , in the shape of paint spraying equipment is being provided by Machine Mart of Nottingham , a new venture for a company more used to motor cars . |
| 13 | Those with a better use of spoken and written English may prefer a sign representation more tied to English . |
| 14 | Jill Neville was , and is , a novelist , whose arrival in Britain had been part of an earlier 1960s Australian wave , more tied to bohemianism than to the music and the scene that sucked in Australians in the mid 1960s . |
| 15 | Banking policy , both in Germany and in France , is far more geared to industry than is the case in the United Kingdom and there is considerable pressure on the German government to maintain grossly inefficient production in East Germany , which it can do by enlisting the aid of the banks . |
| 16 | But in an increasingly urbanized society it took new forms more apparent to political opinion and more threatening to life and industry ; and there were very many more large populous areas devoid of the most elementary arrangements for disposing of waste or supplying pure water . |
| 17 | The distinction between discovery of causes by resolution and demonstration of the effects of certain causes by composition , was coupled with another , that between what is ‘ more known to us ’ and what is ‘ more known to nature ’ . |
| 18 | Their causes come first ‘ in the order of things ’ and are ‘ more known to nature ’ . |
| 19 | She was lifted bodily aboard by two sailors and carried down to a panelled cabin where she and Maria Candida were to live during the voyage ; and when she had been helped out of her clothes and into simpler garments that were more suited to life on board ship , she insisted upon going on deck to watch from the aftercastle as the mariners sang at the capstan and the anchors were weighed . |
| 20 | It also contended that he should have £80,000 to buy a house , in which his carers could live upstairs , rather than £150,000 for a bungalow more suited to life in a wheelchair . |
| 21 | Since I am persuaded by Mr. Lester 's first argument on article 10 , I do not propose to review further the alternatives ; but if it had been necessary to make a decision I , for my part , would have found the task more suited to Parliament than to this court . |
| 22 | The use of spears is possible yet arguably a hazardous occupation more suited to hunting as a sport . |
| 23 | The Angevin connection was thus represented by a close kinswoman of Edward I. Jean of Brittany 's talents were more suited to diplomacy than to warfare ( although he served against Philip the Fair in Aquitaine , between 1294 and 1297 ) , while his close connections with both the French court and the nobility of western France clearly helped to ease tension at periods of crisis . |
| 24 | In some of these respects ( such as improvisation , or blue tonality and pitch inflection ) it was more suited to transmission on recordings than in notation . |
| 25 | The high number of farms with adult cattle was surprising especially in areas more suited to breeding stock . |
| 26 | Finally , claims based on public law rights might well raise factual issues more suited to resolution in an action begun by writ than by Ord. 53 procedure ; conversely , claims based on private law rights may well raise no such issues — which is why originating summons procedure is available as an alternative to writ procedure for claims brought outside Ord. 53 . |
| 27 | It provides a standard method for treating contaminated soils , sands , and solids ; it provides treatment for surface contamination , while other methods are more suited to subsurface treatment ; and it also requires a relatively low level of technology , meaning less can go wrong with the process . |
| 28 | They are definitely more suited to plastic boots with a rigid sole and pronounced welts at the toe and heel for the bails ( Fig 3 ) , but there are still some drawbacks , and they can come off . |
| 29 | In Bavaria I have been served the paler , lighter type of wheat beer as a refreshingly tart , acidic , Champagne-like summer refresher , or even as a dessert beer , with elderberry fritters ( how about apple pie with cinnamon and cloves ? ) , but there are also darker and stronger versions more suited to autumn and winter . |
| 30 | The two larger models , on the other hand , are more suited to sporting events and wildlife observation . |