Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] to produce [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This technique employs a more gradual fixation procedure and is less likely to produce broken preparations showing artefactual losses of chromosomes . |
| 2 | Presumably a hierarchy of managers was considered less likely to produce local ‘ bodies ’ with sufficient authority . |
| 3 | Traditional dry cure bacon is far less likely to produce this substance — do n't miss our feature on dry cure bacon on page 77 . |
| 4 | In general , the dirtier the receiving watercourse the less likely a discharge is to be defined as polluting , since the pollutant is less likely to have any measurable impact on the stream , less likely to be visible in already dirty water , and less likely to produce any noticeable ill-effects upon already scarce fish , plant , or animal life . |
| 5 | This is partly due to the different religious and cultural traditions , but is also influenced by the fact that it is extremely difficult to produce curved and flowing lines unless the knotting is reasonably fine . |
| 6 | In the case of the Open University it is obviously worthwhile to produce well-designed audio-visual material that can be used for teaching thousands of students . |
| 7 | With that said , however , it is still possible to produce impressive results provided that opportunities to plant tall trees in the middle of the road are taken . |
| 8 | However if the actual price level turned out to be higher in t than was expected at the end of t - 1 , firms would be more willing to produce extra output and y t , would exceed y * ; . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Stable homes are more likely to produce stable children than unstable homes . |
| 11 | This fear is often out of proportion to reality — the glass of sherry consumed at bedtime throughout the pregnancy is more likely to produce important long-term adverse effects . |
| 12 | Interpreters were more likely to produce non-English sentences and omit or use incorrectly , referents in the message during simultaneous interpretation . |
| 13 | Internally , Intel is thought to be finding it much harder and certainly more costly to produce new iterations of its iAPX-86 series than it expected . |
| 14 | ‘ Everyone likes to win but it is more important to produce first-team players . |
| 15 | It is also possible to produce delicious cocktail snacks by marinating olives at home in a mixture of herbs and spices . |
| 16 | The present international system of nation states , or blocs of nation states , in each of which nationalism is a powerful force , is inherently likely to produce serious conflicts . |
| 17 | The author is particularly well-equipped to produce this book , being curator of the great Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence , and having already written several fundamental recent studies of the subject . |
| 18 | It has the potential to be a double-suckler ( some families have a tendency to produce twins ) and remains well able to produce high-quality meat and milk from low-protein foodstuffs , with an excellent food conversion rate . |
| 19 | He exhibits a number of adjectives which differ in precisely the way required while maintaining the same or essentially the same lexical value ( we modify his examples slightly where it is possible to do so without damage to his case , so as to make the distinction sharper ) : ( 19 ) visible stars vs stars visible the only navigable rivers vs the only rivers navigable a handy tool vs are your tools handy ? guilty people vs people guilty As it happens , the examples which Bolinger uses employ words which can make the distinction a rather subtle one , with perhaps the exception of visible stars ( a group recognized astronomically ) beside stars visible ; but it is quite easy to produce further instances which seem to confirm his view : ( 20 ) a complaining visitor vs a visitor complaining the eligible bachelor vs the bachelor eligible In other cases , the divergence of lexical value between the two positions may be greater but still with the characteristic value for the former , and the occasion value for the latter : ( 21 ) the responsible man vs the man responsible a sorry sight vs the girl is sorry He notes that the acceptability of an adjective in pre-adjunct position may apparently depend on whether or not it can be regarded as indicating a relatively enduring characteristic of what is expressed by the noun , as in : ( 22 ) the faint girl vs the girl is faint an asleep man vs a man asleep This possibility of course depends not only on the adjective itself but also on the nature of the noun being qualified , so that " when one scratches one 's head the result is not *a scratched head but when one scores a glass surface the result is a scratched surface " . |
| 20 | Then there is the whole question of phase separation in glasses , which makes it almost impossible to produce homogenous glasses of certain compositions . |
| 21 | But it is almost impossible to produce such images without someone raising the cry , ‘ pornography ’ . |
| 22 | The finished sheet is then cut to produce two complete copies . |
| 23 | No attempt was made to treat early or rare books in a similar way to ‘ ordinary ’ material since the number of requests for such items was felt to be insufficiently great to produce meaningful results . |
| 24 | Wintering within the snow 's protection ( see summary in Sage , 1986b ) , feeding on last year 's vegetation at the snow-ground interface , lemmings and other small herbivores with high capacity for reproduction are sometimes able to produce four or five litters per year , each of five or six offspring . |
| 25 | Skimping on the classroom trials is almost certain to produce inferior results . |
| 26 | This statement is based on the fact that the mutated oligonucleotides were neither able to produce specific retarded complexes nor to specifically compete out the complexes formed by the wild type sequences ( see Fig. 4 ) . |
| 27 | It is possible that the relative lack of efficacy of fluticasone propionate compared with a standard regimen of prednisolone is because the dose chosen was too low to produce therapeutic concentrations in the colon . |
| 28 | When the molar mass is too low to produce sufficient entanglement , the material will flow more readily and behave like a viscous liquid . |
| 29 | They are largely faithful to traditional Tibetan designs , but the vivacious , even garish colours have been considerably subdued to produce pale , pastel shades . |
| 30 | With real low bass , speakers have to work very hard to produce enough of the relevant frequency to make the signal audible . |