Example sentences of "[adv] more [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is much more important to blend scientific know-how with humanistic skills to achieve the best results . |
| 2 | Older people were much more likely to give high ratings to politicians of all kinds and , to a lesser extent , to parties of all kinds . |
| 3 | If one is of course a member of a minority , let us say , one is a Jew or erm a socialist or erm a South German , erm then one is much more likely to cherish democratic values and federal values , and much less likely to accept authoritarian rule from above . |
| 4 | Deaf people are much more likely to use this device in their recall , at least in the surface structure . |
| 5 | The popular daily newspapers are much more likely to carry such stories today than twenty years ago . |
| 6 | Exposure to the AB compound itself will be much more likely to generate latent inhibition . |
| 7 | For the elderly patients , however , psychiatrists were much more likely to make domiciliary visits , and to take a lead in service planning . |
| 8 | There certainly is plenty of evidence that women are much more likely to provide personal care for relatives than are men . |
| 9 | Under its skin , instead of succulent cuts of prime meat you 're much more likely to get all sorts of other things instead . |
| 10 | Supporters of a more means-tested approach are also much more likely to favour some type of negative income tax scheme and argue that within each contingent class there are some who need help and some who do not , so that the rich in ‘ needy-contingent ’ categories gain at the expense of the poor in less needy-contingent categories , e.g. the low-paid workers . |
| 11 | He also stated that although in acute illness low potencies could be effective , in chronic conditions high potencies were much more likely to produce good results if the most similar remedy could be discerned . |
| 12 | The experience of rehabilitation centres is that people who come to them having been conscientiously cheerful since the day of their loss , who have never wept or allowed themselves to enter fully into the pain of their loss , find it much more difficult to acquire new skills . |
| 13 | Longer exposure will produce both this effect and the associative version , making it much more difficult to see any decline in latent inhibition at the longer intervals . |
| 14 | If there is no crisis , top managers will find it much more difficult to achieve fundamental change , since the need for it will be questioned . |
| 15 | But psychoanalysis is much more able to discuss prohibited forms of sexuality without pathologizing them , and to describe sexuality as a matter of pleasure , dissociated from biological or social use . |
| 16 | How much more able to make that judgement were those colleagues who had already been on the board for seven years or more ? ’ |
| 17 | Entertainments including music , singing and dancing held in the lower cafe part of the Priory would be even closer to residential properties in the village square and thus more likely to disturb local residents . |
| 18 | I do not believe that a contract which clarifies hours worked or tasks to be done will prevent teachers from caring , but it may make it rather more difficult to implement school-based initiatives . |
| 19 | That Britain is now a little more ready to join this hope-filled , rolling bandwagon is , not unnaturally , a matter of mild elation to Rushdie and to Article 19 , the freedom-of-speech group which has been organising the campaign for his defence . |
| 20 | The theory of the second-best says that it is allocatively more efficient to spread inevitable distortions thinly over many markets than to concentrate their effects in a few markets . |
| 21 | It became ever more difficult to prevent public discussion of political issues . |
| 22 | Three and four colour knitting is usually more successful using full needle rib and fine yarns with the ribber . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In three studies , pancreatitis was induced chamically , and in one by ligature of the pancreatic duct — a model that is probably more analogous to ERCP induced pancreatitis . |
| 25 | Whatever the theoretical possibilities , it is clearly more parsimonious to explain acquired distinctiveness and equivalence solely in terms of associative mechanisms . |
| 26 | Women are less likely to have remained unmarried , but men slightly more likely to reach old age as bachelors |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Patients in rural areas were also more likely to need urgent laser photocoagulation . |
| 29 | Very elderly women were also more likely to experience severe disablement than their male counterparts . |
| 30 | Those who had no qualifications and no regular occupation were also more likely to have little family support , and to find themselves at eighteen or younger , living on state benefits in lodgings , single bedsits , or flats shared with other young people . |