Example sentences of "more [adj] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A busy quay and some ferries make if often more pleasant to anchor to the north of the town . |
| 2 | It is true that the British were more disposed to live with the reality of the new China than were the Americans , and to the annoyance of Washington they speedily recognized the new regime in Beijing . |
| 3 | But someone committed to a thorough-going naturalism is no more prepared to allow to the mind mysterious properties than he is prepared to allow them to matter : for the thorough-going naturalist , after all , mind is no more than a manifestation of matter . |
| 4 | He tends to be less radical and confrontational than the most nationally prominent black politician , the Rev Jesse Jackson , and more willing to work with the establishment to achieve his goals . |
| 5 | Would it be more sensible to intervene through the tax system than to regulate quantities directly ? |
| 6 | I thought it was more sensible to walk to the library rather than go in the car cos |
| 7 | ‘ Who wants to come and find something more exciting to throw in the water ? ’ he asked . |
| 8 | Some officers , used to patrolling the ‘ bobby-bashing streets ’ , were much more prone to start with the truncheon . |
| 9 | Mr Palios said : ‘ It 's more appropriate to talk of the company having badwill than goodwill . ’ |
| 10 | Instead of taking the cases to the police , as he should have done and as any other hon. Member would have done , and certainly to the Home Office Minister , he found it more appropriate to come to the House and read from The News of the World to get as much publicity for himself as he could . |
| 11 | It is even more dangerous to generalise about the organisation of medieval agriculture than about its physical and demographic background . |
| 12 | There are invariably more mature female goats around than males , and the inference is that the males , as a result of their arduous rut , are more likely to die during the winter . |
| 13 | The study suggests that women under 50 with breast cancer are more likely to die from the disease if it is first picked up by mammograms than if they discover the lump by feeling their breasts . |
| 14 | He said that many people who could do so would be more likely to shop on the continent . |
| 15 | He said that many people who could do so would be more likely to shop on the continent . |
| 16 | But it was only one of those sleeps into which he was ever more likely to fall during the day and she knew he would waken , roaring , in an hour or so . |
| 17 | Western scientists argue that the plutonium is more likely to sink to the bottom and stay there . |
| 18 | On the facts of the problem he is more likely to succeed in the action for breach of statutory duty as that duty on the employer is stricter . |
| 19 | In their study of Yorkshire during the 1984–5 strike , for example , Winterton and Winterton ( 1989 : see also Waddington et al. , 1990 ) found that the strike breakers were more likely to live outside the mining communities , thereby producing a geography whereby the strike was strongest ( and longest ) in the pits whose labour came mainly from local , closed communities : in Nottinghamshire , of course , the opposite occurred , with the closed communities being solid against the strike . |
| 20 | Such crops get away earlier in the spring and are more likely to ripen before the autumn rains . |
| 21 | Amongst readers of the same paper ( or paper-group as defined in Table 8.17 ) those who said they relied more on the press than on television were more likely to swing in the direction of their paper 's partisanship : Sun/Star and Express/ Mail readers who relied more on their papers swung more strongly to the Conservatives than Sun/Star and Express/Mail readers who relied more on television ; at the same time , Mirror readers who relied more on their paper swung towards Labour , while Mirror readers who relied more on television swung towards the Conservatives . |
| 22 | Thus , while middle-class women are more likely to object to the label ‘ housewife ’ on grounds of its low status , there is a general tendency for downward mobility on the status dimension — from paid work to the job of housewife — to be associated with present dissatisfaction . |
| 23 | While they generally accepted the legitimacy of Whitehall interventions as ‘ bankers ’ to the industry in the annual investment review , when it came to discussion of other policies they were more likely to complain about the time that Whitehall committees and correspondence pre-empted , and to show impatience with civil service style . |
| 24 | A year earlier and maybe even yesterday , he 'd have been more likely to fire into the crowd than order tear-gas or a charge . |
| 25 | In some cases these evaluations were formative in relation to the next main piece of work ; thus when the task of story narration ( TASK 2 ) did not appear to encourage children to use full stops , and capital letters , teachers suggested that formal and structured letter writing was more likely to help with the structuring of sentences . |
| 26 | MARRIAGES which involve a partner who has been married before are more likely to end in the divorce courts than ones between two people who have never before been up the aisle . |
| 27 | Alternatively America could move towards a more British system of receivership , which puts creditors before shareholders , and is more likely to end in the firm simply ceasing to trade . |
| 28 | What seems objectionable in Matza 's argument is that he clearly believes there is a ‘ hierarchy ’ of stances in relation to deviance , not just alternatives : the appreciative stance is portrayed as superior to either the romantic or the correctionalist in that it is inherently more likely to get at the truth . |
| 29 | Not only does this mean that you are more likely to get at the truth , but it is also likely to be more fruitful for whatever purpose you have in mind . |
| 30 | Er and erm it 's difficult for people to maintain er not only as I say , but in their lifestyle over a particular period of time , so you could be more likely to get at the truth by this method , than by sending out questionnaires . |