Example sentences of "more likely [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were , too , more likely to enjoy the actual work , for they had undertaken training to do it . |
| 2 | This suggests that the grade differences can not be attributed to employees in the lower grades being more likely to take the odd day off or to those in the higher grades staying at work despite minor illness . |
| 3 | Then we go to the taboo language and if you talk about when you go to the toilet , if you Everybody excuses themselves to leave and that 's both men and women and then somehow you have to say where you 're going , so the women are more likely to use the polite sort of euphemistic kinds of things like they 'd say toilet or loo , whereas the men are more likely to say bog . |
| 4 | Thus , where disagreement does arise it is usually of degree rather than of substance , and is more likely to concern the detailed application of policy as opposed to general principles . |
| 5 | The assumption is made that dissatisfied workers are more likely to leave the one job for another , take time off , or go on strike , but there has been considerable debate about all three measures , and there are cogent reasons for doubting that any of them serve as adequate indicators of job satisfaction . |
| 6 | Parents who themselves behave in a responsible way towards their children , making it a habit to keep them informed of their whereabouts and accounting for their own actions , are more likely to receive the same consideration in return . |
| 7 | Moyola looked the more likely to get the winning score on the resumption and it came when Ruddock , who was unlucky earlier with a header which struck the Tobermore upright , sent in from the wing in the 79th minute and their big outside left Calderwood was on hand to head to the net . |
| 8 | In this way you are more likely to extract the whole larva without damaging it . |
| 9 | In practice , national or local restrictions ( or lack of restrictions ) on public spending are far more likely to influence the eventual figure reached than are formulae involving use and depreciation of stock , and the librarian may find that the most useful lever for increasing his estimates before his finance committee is his comparative position — in relation to comparable systems — in the league table of local authority bookfunds . |
| 10 | However , it is much more likely to produce the correct answer , even if this answer is one of several alternatives . |
| 11 | However , I think we are more likely to find the right answer if we ask the right question . |
| 12 | It is not formally structured as it is in the ballets of other countries where choreographers are more likely to present the traditional dance itself , slightly adapted for the stage with the footwork more complicated . |
| 13 | A well planned approach to obtaining finance , supported by the appropriate documentation , is not only more likely to achieve the required finance , it also puts the sponsor in a stronger position when negotiating with the potential source of finance . |
| 14 | In good market conditions , however , auction or tender will be more likely to provide the best price for the client , but because the land has been widely advertised the purchaser will be under no moral or other obligation to re-instruct the agent . |
| 15 | Thus , in so far as middle-class women are more likely to perceive the low status of the housewife role , they are more likely than their working-class sisters to be dissatisfied with it . |