Example sentences of "more [adj] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun] " 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 | In addition , Kodak found so much administrative hassle was to be involved in serving the regional market via Kenya that it was more cost-effective to fly in the chemicals direct to each country . |
| 3 | A busy quay and some ferries make if often more pleasant to anchor to the north of the town . |
| 4 | It is no more possible to pass between the dates which compose the different domains than it is to do so between natural and irrational numbers . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Would it be more sensible to intervene through the tax system than to regulate quantities directly ? |
| 9 | I thought it was more sensible to walk to the library rather than go in the car cos |
| 10 | ‘ Who wants to come and find something more exciting to throw in the water ? ’ he asked . |
| 11 | Some officers , used to patrolling the ‘ bobby-bashing streets ’ , were much more prone to start with the truncheon . |
| 12 | Single older people are more prone to suffer from a lack of amenities and occupy unfit dwellings than larger elderly households . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Mr Palios said : ‘ It 's more appropriate to talk of the company having badwill than goodwill . ’ |
| 15 | It is more appropriate to focus upon the proportions by which domestic consumption is served by domestic production , partner country and rest of world imports . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It is even more dangerous to generalise about the organisation of medieval agriculture than about its physical and demographic background . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He 's more likely to die in a bar brawl . |
| 22 | He said that many people who could do so would be more likely to shop on the continent . |
| 23 | He said that many people who could do so would be more likely to shop on the continent . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Art criticism seems more likely to remain in the shadows , out of the spotlight of academic controversy . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Western scientists argue that the plutonium is more likely to sink to the bottom and stay there . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In summary , therefore , different solutions are more likely to arise between the NPV and IRR methods when one or more of the following conditions exist : |