Example sentences of "be more [adj] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ THEY 'RE MORE LIKELY TO LIE ABOUT DRINK HABITS ’ |
| 2 | It would have been more appropriate to leave in rain . |
| 3 | Thirty years ago this change would have been more likely to coincide with marriage ; today it coincides with becoming a parent , and its significance may be underrated as maternity leave holds open the option of a very early return to work . |
| 4 | The geysers and mud pools of Rotorua are more striking seen from ground level than from the air , but the great geyser still looks impressive from 1,500 feet . |
| 5 | The ‘ kinship defenders ’ are more concerned to press for policy changes , such as more day-care provision to help one-parent families , as urgently necessary ; the other group perhaps sees such changes as more long term , as not immediately related to the needs of the children who are currently the subject of placement decisions . |
| 6 | and you 've got a group , the rich within the agricultural sector who are going to invest and they are more likely to invest in agriculture . |
| 7 | The traditional view is that females are more likely to predominate among rural out-migrants for two main reasons : employment opportunities for women are even more restricted than those for men in rural areas , and women are more likely to move after marriage than are men ( Hannan 1970 ) . |
| 8 | There has been some suggestion that parents are more likely to argue in front of their sons than their daughters ; that a disturbed parent is more likely to pick on a son than a daughter ; and that mothers may transfer negative experiences with their husband into negative expectations of their sons . |
| 9 | Girls more often have this difficulty : 40 per cent are more likely to wet by day than boys ( Butler and Golding 1986 ) . |
| 10 | However , small businesses also need to forecast and they are more likely to rely on judgement alone . |
| 11 | Breaches of pollution control are more likely to be picked up ; they are more likely to lead to enforcement action , possibly criminal prosecution ; more and more remediation is demanded ; and they are more likely to have an impact on a company 's image — and hence exact a heavier toll on company profits . |
| 12 | these figures do not show that black people are more prone crime , but they do suggest that black people who offend are more likely to go to prison . |
| 13 | IF one partner has not been married before and the other one has , the couple are more likely to go into marriage than a couple where both partners have been married before . |
| 14 | The main reason why the US market is so much more competitive appears to be tradition : American consumers are accustomed to hunting out bargains and buying on price , whereas Europeans are more likely to buy on brand name . |
| 15 | A survey has shown that children who suffer upper-respiratory-tract infections and middle-ear infections are more likely to present with management problems and temper tantrums than children who have not suffered these illnesses ( Bax et al . |
| 16 | Though earlier examples may be found , those of the eighteenth century are more likely to come to hand fairly often , e.g. , The Tatler , begun in 1709 , The Spectator ( 1711 ) and The Guardian ( 1712 ) . |
| 17 | An American clinical study ( Anderson and White , 1986 ) also suggests that problems in step families are more likely to relate to parenting issues between adults and children than to the parents ' marital relationship . |
| 18 | The term ‘ curriculum ’ is generally understood but not widely used in higher education ; academics are more likely to speak of undergraduate studies in terms of courses , programmes , syllabuses/syllabi or content . |
| 19 | Compared to whites , blacks are less likely to acquire educational qualifications , their marriages are more likely to end in separation or divorce and they are more likely to have a criminal record . |
| 20 | However , babies who have received supplementary bottle-feeds ( see p 244 ) are more likely to react to cow 's milk than anything else . |
| 21 | It is still standard practice to give priority to boys ' education , particularly in families where economic resources are scarce , and illiteracy among women is 10% higher than for men.5 Girls are more likely to suffer from non-attendance , their drop-out rate is higher and they remain the low achievers . |
| 22 | These horses are more likely to suffer from alkalosis than acidosis . |
| 23 | In the longer term the offspring of depressed mothers are more likely to suffer from childhood depression . |
| 24 | Babies of working class mothers are more likely to suffer from illness than middle-class babies for a variety of reasons : the mother 's health and style of living , particularly whether she smokes heavily ; the mother 's diet ; the mother 's type of employment during the late stages of pregnancy ; housing conditions , particularly heating ; the use of ante-natal clinics by the mother during pregnancy . |
| 25 | In another study , researchers have said that premature babies are more likely to suffer from breathing difficulties in childhood than youngsters born after a full-term pregnancy . |
| 26 | When using a mitre box or block for cutting mitres , some sections are more difficult to hold in place — dowel rod is a good example . |
| 27 | ‘ But the distances to further stars are more difficult to measure from Earth , ’ Penston said . |
| 28 | It seems to be more practical to opt for control on some form of ‘ toggling ’ basis , which is the method of control used in this program . |
| 29 | The former will generally be more straightforward to use for word processing but may not have any database management system programs Some word processors do have other programs available but the choice is unlikely to be as great as that relating to one of the popular micros Second . |
| 30 | If the company feels that it can largely pass changes in input prices on , it will be more appropriate to focus on productivity changes than on absolute cost changes . |