Example sentences of "more [adj] have [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secretly , though I had every sympathy for Surkov , I thought him much more likely to have raped a woman when drunk than Miss Hayes-Drummond was to have made a false accusation . |
| 2 | Women in second marriages are more likely to have had an affair than those in their first , and women who work full-time are , it seems , more prone to extra-curricular passions than either part-time workers or housewives . |
| 3 | After birth they were more likely to have shared a bed with another person than non-Maori infants ( χ 2 =42 , df=1 , p<0.001 ) . |
| 4 | As he raised a curious eyebrow she elaborated with satisfaction , ‘ I can think of someone far more likely to have put a torch to G.W. Fashions than myself . ’ |
| 5 | Both people entering unemployment as a result of losing a temporary job and people taking temporary jobs as a way out of unemployment seemed more likely to have taken a number of jobs , to have experienced a number of spells of unemployment , to have had less time in work and more time in unemployment than people becoming unemployed for other reasons , or managing to obtain a permanent job on leaving unemployment . |
| 6 | It would have been far more threatening to have attempted a simulation of a ‘ round the graveside ’ dramatic playing . |