Example sentences of "more [adj] [to-vb] to the [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | I thought it was more sensible to walk to the library rather than go in the car cos |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Showmen knew that middle-class critics had to be bought off and that topicality could sell films to certain audiences but they also appreciated that audiences were more likely to go to the movies for spectacle , for adventure , for comedy , for sex , to see particular stars , and to be entertained in the widest sense . |
| 6 | Western scientists argue that the plutonium is more likely to sink to the bottom and stay there . |
| 7 | I venture to suggest you are more likely to turn to the books of both authors after reading their contributions in Esquire . |
| 8 | On the other hand critics of the consensus within the Labour and the Conservative parties are more likely to point to the failures of political will , courage , persistence , and policy preparation by their respective leaderships as explanations for the convergence . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Has the professional body exerted too dominant , and too narrow an influence ? ) ; the learning process ( Is there an undue balance towards the student having to assimilate and memorize material , rather than engaging in active reflection and exploration ? ) ; and the examining process ( Will it allow the student to demonstrate his or her higher-order abilities ? ) are often more likely to come to the fore , when staff from outside the immediate discipline are sharing in the course review process . |
| 11 | Their work is more likely to come to the attention of headquarters staff ‘ in practice … ’ , as a senior man put it , ‘ only when there 's a cock-up ’ . |
| 12 | This is due probably to the fact that people suffering from aphasia are more likely to come to the attention of a neurologist than individuals suffering from certain kinds of right hemisphere damage which may pass unnoticed by the individual himself such that he does not seek medical attention or is not referred for neurological investigation . |
| 13 | Occupational pensions are more likely to contribute to the incomes of ‘ better off ’ pensioners . |
| 14 | This is helping many people see that RE should have something more distinctive to contribute to the values education of pupils than what can happen within the teaching of other subjects . |
| 15 | Possible complications and side-effects are ignored or minimised in a target-oriented programme because it is more important to add to the numbers of acceptors than to help women make an informed choice about contraception . |
| 16 | Knowing her husband , if he could be led to believe that the royal castle of Berwick might be alienated from the crown and actually given to him for his services , he would be the more apt to accede to the arrangement , being a man of acquisitive mind . |
| 17 | these images , our society is more able to ascribe to the majority of its members — the right-thinking corpus — a comforting sense of order and social propriety . |
| 18 | Where such an understanding develops the teacher is more able to relate to the child in the classroom . |
| 19 | Dorabella 's music is lighter in style : she is a charming , fluffy creature , more ready to listen to the siren song of pleasure . |
| 20 | Rather than take the route advocated by Jensen and Murphy , it seems more attractive to respond to the problem of the low visibility of management effort directly , by improving internal monitoring , for example , through board reform . |