Example sentences of "more [adj] to use [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It is often more economic to use softened water to supply machines rather than combat hardness salts with a sequestrant load detergents . |
2 | 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 ? |
3 | Although it was more economical to use living organisms to produce penicillin , and also streptomycin , there was no fundamental reason why antibiotics should be regarded differently from drugs made in a laboratory or industrial plant by chemical processes . |
4 | Frith ( 1980 ) has suggested that these good readers attempt to " spell by ear " , in that they rely tao heavily upon the phonological representations of words when it is more appropriate to use orthographic rules with a purely visual spelling check . |
5 | The Epson system referred to was designed at a time when it was more appropriate to use proprietary Epson upgrades . |
6 | Oh , younger men are more likely to use coarser tones and be more explicit erm although they would n't use those sort terms to their father or elder men , and the women are more likely to use euphemisms like Spend a penny , Powder your nose and things like that . |
7 | Women tend to use more standard forms er and men are more likely to use regional dialect forms . |
8 | Erm there is a study where they looked into erm men in the workforce and women and in the workforce and er if men worked together in factories it sort of reinforces their speech patterns , their workmates are reinforcing their speech pattern so they 're more likely to use non- standard . |
9 | Erm some women tend to have more pitch variation and they 're more emotional so they 're more likely to use encouraging tones er which can sometimes be seen to be slightly patronizing , whereas boys think it 's soppy to be emotional or expressive way , so that if you 're in school and you 're asking people to read out in class , erm a girl would be more likely to be more expressive , whereas a boy would be a little bit more monotonous , and just sort of read it out and not put any emotion into it . |
10 | In line with other studies , we found that larger establishments were more likely to use temporary workers but , and more important , we also found that they were not more likely to be " high users " of temporary workers . |
11 | They are more likely to use ordinary store accounts and bank credit cards . |
12 | In a national survey , ‘ forward planners ’ in all classes had lower fertility ( and family size clustered more tightly around an average of two children ) , and were more likely to use effective methods of contraception . |
13 | Indeed , as Table 3.9 suggests , manufacturing establishments where trade unions were recognised were slightly more likely to use fixed-term contract workers than those where they were not recognised , and the predicted relationship held only for agency workers in service establishments . |
14 | In the manufacturing sector , establishments with a low skilled labour force were more likely to use fixed-term contract workers , and those with a more highly skilled one less likely . |
15 | Deaf people are much more likely to use this device in their recall , at least in the surface structure . |
16 | It is more prudent , more rational and more natural to use organic materials — manures . |
17 | On the one hand , the greater prominence given to notions of rights made workers more wary about informal arrangements and voluntary negotiations , more legalistic and hence more inclined to use statutory means . |