Example sentences of "more [adj] [verb] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter Ashman , legal secretary of Justice , said : ‘ The profession is more willing to admit miscarriages of justice than it once was . |
| 2 | So , for example , instead of concentrating resources on child benefit , it may be more sensible to increase provision for child care , so women may enter the job market . |
| 3 | Patterns of victimization vary : females are more likely to fall victim to violence in their homes ; whilst males are more likely to fall victim to violence in a ‘ road , street or park ’ , or in a place of recreation . |
| 4 | Patterns of victimization vary : females are more likely to fall victim to violence in their homes ; whilst males are more likely to fall victim to violence in a ‘ road , street or park ’ , or in a place of recreation . |
| 5 | Larger libraries were more likely to mention expansion of management training , and even more likely than small libraries to want greater flexibility with staff . |
| 6 | None of these four biases are likely to be consistent either across the two sexes or across different species : all four are more likely to affect estimates of variation in male success than estimates of variation in female success in polygynous species , though in contrary directions . |
| 7 | While I support fully the RSPCA campaign and their use of ‘ shock ’ tactics , I feel that the horrifying sight of a heap of dead dogs is no more likely to stir people to action than the sight of a pile of dead cows will turn us all into vegetarians . |
| 8 | Demand for funds was more likely to exceed supply in manufacturing districts , and country banks in this situation drew on their correspondents in the City by sending in immature bills . |
| 9 | More messages make them more active , and more likely to add phosphate to receptor molecules . |
| 10 | With the development of community mental health teams , community psychiatric nurses ( CPNs ) are more likely to meet people with bulimia , most of whom are women . |
| 11 | The children of mums who smoked during pregnancy were far more likely to show signs of hyperactivity , suggesting that fetal exposure to tobacco can be linked to later developmental problems . |
| 12 | However , they are more expensive , require more complicated care procedure and are more likely to show signs of wear . |
| 13 | There is a significant tendency for staff in more senior positions ( who tend also to have more years of service ) to recall the review better , to believe the introduction of the review to have been more adequate , to be more involved in the review activities , more likely to keep a special diary as part of the review and more likely to make use of information routinely available for the review . |
| 14 | You 're more likely to have problems with cleaning — if it 's hand washable , the pleats will drip-dry and stay in , but dry-cleaning could be expensive as each pleat may have to be hand-pressed . |
| 15 | They are also more likely to have parents in management posts in industry and commerce . |
| 16 | Teenage mothers are more likely to have complications during pregnancy , give birth to small babies and have babies with congenital abnormalities , states the report . |
| 17 | With respect to symptoms they were much more likely to have urgency of defecation , 44% having this symptom . |
| 18 | With respect to symptoms they were again much more likely to have urgency of defecation ( 44% v 13% , p<0.001 ) . |
| 19 | A recent study revealed that children who smoke are 3 times more likely to have time off school [ 10 ] . |
| 20 | However , those who had expressed a more general interest in politics during the parliamentary mid-term were more likely to allege bias on television and in their papers during the campaign . |
| 21 | One explanation given was that the least vulnerable may return to employment , and it is possible that Asians may be more likely to find employment through family networks . |
| 22 | With all the rain emptying itself over the Feyenoord Stadium it was hard to put last night 's match in the context of a World Cup which is more likely to present problems of heat than waterproofing . |
| 23 | While past generations of architects built cathedrals of faith , later succeeded by cathedrals of commerce , today 's and tomorrow 's master builders are more likely to provide cathedrals of entertainment . |
| 24 | Teachers of art are more likely to write books of instruction , and in their efforts to educate their students may make comments about the traditions they admire and from which they hope their students will learn . |
| 25 | They should encourage the client to commit him/herself to something specific , i.e. , ‘ I 'd like to stop having panic attacks ’ , or ‘ I 'd like to be able to catch the train up to London ’ , or , ‘ I 'd like to understand and cope more effectively with my anxiety symptoms ’ , or , ‘ I 'd like to be more relaxed giving presentations at work ’ . |
| 26 | It would be more effective to involve people by education , by making them part of the system so that they gain from helping , to give them a vested interest in maintaining the integrity of the ecosystem and the wildlife around them — very much cheaper than a law force , WWF and CITES secretariats . |
| 27 | The net result was a political atmosphere ‘ in which it became impossible for the police as a whole to avoid a distortion of priorities and for individual police officers it became more and more difficult to disentangle fact from prejudice in assessing those whom they were sent to police ’ ( McCabe and Wallington , 1988:134–5 ) . |
| 28 | Conversely , Ninagawa had trouble applying the combination of eastern and western styles to a traditional Japanese piece : ‘ It is much more difficult to bring realism into stylization than the other way round . |
| 29 | International copyright arrangements institutionalise peripherality and make it more expensive to obtain access to knowledge of all kinds . |
| 30 | But overseas royal families are far more ready to put hand in pocket . |