Example sentences of "more [adj] [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The European countries also appreciated that the need for the whole world recovery was important , and they became more willing to contribute to the economic development of underdeveloped countries . |
| 2 | ‘ I would hope a club of the stature of Nottingham Forest might have been more willing to look at the domestic market if they wanted a young keeper . ’ |
| 3 | It would be more sensible to complain to the local trading standards department . |
| 4 | We thought it would be more sensible to move to the other side of the apartment ; if a shell hit the wall to which we were chained , we would n't stand a chance . |
| 5 | Whilst first aid remedies may be of use for each episode of acute illness , proper constitutional treatment and advice is likely to be more appropriate to help with the long term tendency to become unwell repeatedly . |
| 6 | Patients 75 years of age and older were more likely to die over the 2 years after discharge than patients between 18 and 44 years of age , but this difference did not reach statistical significance . |
| 7 | However , compared with patients aged 18–44 years , patients aged 45–64 ( RR=0.84 ) , 65–74 ( RR=1.28 ) , and 75–92 ( RR=1.99 ) were not significantly more likely to die during the 24 months after discharge ( all p0.2 ) . |
| 8 | Yet another way in which not having a bank account makes people more likely to fall into the non-chooser group , the automatic users of one or other type of credit , is that people without bank accounts are likely to be paid weekly , in cash . |
| 9 | Voters who live in class-specific communities are more likely to vote for the relevant class-specific party than are those not living in such communities . |
| 10 | But they 're more likely to bump into the Great Dragon of the North Sea , or Half Tan the Black , alias John Cleese . |
| 11 | Another problem with this view of reality is that it is more likely to respond to the respectable face of feminism than to women 's liberation . |
| 12 | Armed with this perspective , library staff may perhaps be more likely to respond to the specious logic of their political masters , eager to turn an honest penny as long as it will cause controversy and save money from the Westminster rate-cappers . |
| 13 | His more contemporary recollection , however , placed the farmhouse ‘ a quarter of a mile from Culbone Church ’ , a description which has almost always been said to identify Ash Farm , but which is perhaps more likely to refer to the former Withycombe Farm . |
| 14 | Again , the Corinthians ( i.42 ) urge the Athenians to remove the ‘ previously existing suspicion on account of the Megarians ’ , where ‘ previously , is more likely to refer to the early 430s than to Megarian behaviour c.460 , which was not something Athens could do much about now . |
| 15 | At the present time the English tend to play down the significance of affinal relationships but , even so , the statement " she has made a good marriage " is more likely to refer to the social and financial standing of the husband 's immediate kin than to the personal qualities of the husband himself . |
| 16 | I think it 's more likely to happen on the third or fourth flight , once the bird has caught on to the idea of freedom , which is why it 's important to keep it reasonably hungry . |
| 17 | In their study of civic culture in 1959 , Almond and Verba repeatedly noted that the better educated in all five countries that they studied were more likely to participate in the political process , and to believe that they could do something to change laws which they felt were unjust through the conventional channels of political participation . |
| 18 | Without this kind of activity , the difficult balance to be struck between essentially paternalistic decision taking and responsiveness would be all the more likely to swing towards the former . |
| 19 | The first part of the Book of Daniel ( approximately chapters 1–6 ) and the Books of Esther and Judith are more likely to belong to the third than to the second century B.C. They combine edification with entertainment . |
| 20 | If someone 's natural breathing is already shallow , that person is much more likely to panic in the first place . |
| 21 | The fall in population did not , however , mean a general decline in economic activity ; rising wages may have served to increase consumption and give some stimulus to production , and it is worth noting that even the magnate class , which was more likely to suffer from the changed balance of power between land and labour through declining rent rolls and higher payments of wages was still able to invest considerable sums in new building during Richard II 's reign . |
| 22 | Muhtarram , entered for the Tetley Bitter Classic Trial at Thirsk on Saturday , is more likely to run in the Craven Stakes at Newmarket on April 16 . |
| 23 | If whatever pattern of cues he is emitting happens to affect the subject 's response , so that the experimenter obtains the response he expected to obtain , that pattern of cues may be more likely to recur with the next subject . |
| 24 | Different horses communicate in different ways , although those that live together or are of the same family are more likely to communicate in the same way . |
| 25 | The price is more likely to relate to the individual picker and the regularity with which he sells to the warehouse . |
| 26 | A systematic and documented approach will be more cost effective , auditable and more likely to come to the right conclusions . |
| 27 | The former proved more likely to succumb to the same addiction . |
| 28 | It is considered more satisfactory to adhere to the conventional conveyancing procedure so that the husband 's solicitors will submit an epitome of title to the wife 's solicitors or ( in the case of registered land ) office copy entries of the registered title . |
| 29 | They walked a little way into the Trees , where it would be more comfortable to sit on the thick , dry forest floor and eat their food and rest . |
| 30 | The main drawback of aluminium is that , being a metal , it readily conducts heat and so is more costly to heat in the cold winter months . |