Example sentences of "more [adj] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Duffy left at once , but Clare felt it would be more polite to linger for a while , rather than rush out after the couple , as if the wedding had been an annoying chore . |
| 2 | A busy quay and some ferries make if often more pleasant to anchor to the north of the town . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Would it be more sensible to intervene through the tax system than to regulate quantities directly ? |
| 7 | I thought it was more sensible to walk to the library rather than go in the car cos |
| 8 | ‘ Who wants to come and find something more exciting to throw in the water ? ’ he asked . |
| 9 | Some officers , used to patrolling the ‘ bobby-bashing streets ’ , were much more prone to start with the truncheon . |
| 10 | Single older people are more prone to suffer from a lack of amenities and occupy unfit dwellings than larger elderly households . |
| 11 | It would be even more uncomfortable to associate with a character like that than to feel at home with our previous assessment , the hard man whose admirers compared him to a stone . |
| 12 | Mr Palios said : ‘ It 's more appropriate to talk of the company having badwill than goodwill . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It is even more dangerous to generalise about the organisation of medieval agriculture than about its physical and demographic background . |
| 15 | It also seems that applications to the tribunal selected for a pre-hearing assessment are more likely to proceed to a hearing than other cases , while at the same time the success rate for those who proceed in the face of an ‘ unlikely to succeed ’ warning is not very different from other cases ( DoE , 1988 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He 's more likely to die in a bar brawl . |
| 19 | He said that many people who could do so would be more likely to shop on the continent . |
| 20 | He said that many people who could do so would be more likely to shop on the continent . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Western scientists argue that the plutonium is more likely to sink to the bottom and stay there . |
| 24 | Experiments have shown that males which perform the zigzag display at a higher rate ( more swims back and forth per minute ) are more likely to be successful at courtship : a female is more likely to mate with a male whose zigzagging is more energetic . |
| 25 | This problem is more likely to arise at a time when the patient is unconscious and can not be consulted . |
| 26 | Problems are more likely to arise from an increase in the number of small enquiries which generate only a modest income but which impinge on the time of core staff . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Firstly , it does seem that consumers are more likely to succeed in an assertion that a clause is unreasonable than a commercial undertaking . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Among other efforts , the hotel recycles paper , using proceeds to plant an orchard containing fast disappearing traditional varieties of apple , sends candles and soaps to charities operating in developing countries , recycles bottle and donates proceeds to charity , is researching ways of recycling kitchen waste , has minimised the environmental impact of its golf course , has bought energy-saving technology such as timer switches and has discovered that 70 per cent of its guests would be more likely to return as a result of its environmental practices . |