Example sentences of "[pron] more [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Am I more likely to continue exercising if I join a class where there is a certain amount of discipline ? |
| 2 | If Dave is looking over Andy 's shoulder for someone more influential to talk to , then his sub-text is ‘ I 'm being cursorily polite until I see someone better . ’ |
| 3 | like someone more anxious to save the wrapping |
| 4 | However , people often take umbrage and start disagreeing or , if you persist with difficulties , they may give up and go and find someone more positive to talk to . |
| 5 | Some candidates were unhappy about the selection process , claiming the region wanted someone more willing to fit in with the council 's corporate stance , than head a professional service . |
| 6 | Avoid behaviour indicating sub-text like : ‘ You 're boring me rigid and I 'm looking for someone more interesting to talk to . ’ |
| 7 | There was nobody more certain to lose a race than a jockey with no self-confidence . |
| 8 | But I do n't feel as if , I mean it 's it 's not the most pleasant thing in the world but it 's certainly fucking sa it 's safer than a lot of their more easier to put on and take off than and fucking safer and more effective than a lot of their contraception devices . |
| 9 | They also acted to decrease the woman 's coping skills , making her more likely to become depressed or a less sensitive parent when faced with social difficulties or a lack of marital support . |
| 10 | Hollywood has plenty more fat to lose . |
| 11 | Most of the time he 'd nothing more serious to worry about than squirrel shit on the seats if ever he left the windows open . |
| 12 | It reads : ‘ It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan , more uncertain of success , nor more dangerous to manage , than the creation of a new order of things . ’ |
| 13 | It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan , more uncertain of success , or more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new order of things . |
| 14 | There is nothing more difficult to take in hand , more perilous to conduct , or more uncertain in its success , than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things . |
| 15 | I agree with Kev — I reckon 3–1 is a good bet for tomorrow.But one word of warning … years of painful experience has taught me one golden rule in football betting — NEVER back your own team — there 's nothing more guaranteed to jinx them . |
| 16 | There is nothing more likely to cause ill-feeling than a large dog rushing through , demolishing a child 's sandcastle or trailing sand through a picnic ! |
| 17 | Charity glanced at the clock as she poured and announced that she 'd missed it , Peregrine asking if it mattered a hoot anyway , the wireless these day being so hopelessly uninformative , with nothing more important to impart than news of patrol activity on the Maginot Line . |
| 18 | However , he recognized that the days when he could play the benign ruler , satisfying the grievances of his subjects and punishing guilty lesser officials , were waning — even if he had nothing more positive to put in its place . |
| 19 | What a pity she had nothing more positive to tell her mother ! |
| 20 | This makes them more varied to look at , and in general perhaps more picturesque , but it is not easy to make them intelligible to someone who has not seen them . |
| 21 | Choose a pair of combination pliers with fine and coarse serrated jaws and a wire cutter near the pivot point ; plastic hand grips make them more comfortable to use , and also provide protection against the risk of shock during electrical jobs . |
| 22 | The problems are formidable and they interlock in ways that make them more difficult to tackle . |
| 23 | Intelligence would make them more difficult to control . |
| 24 | Local authorities took to the fashion of developing management and political processes , and institutional structures , which would make them more able to plan , control and review their activities , commensurate with their resources . |
| 25 | It is sometimes a way of endowing a person with a responsibility that trains him to fulfil various roles in the future , or that it is hoped will change his character for the better , or that endows its holder with prestige , or that gives him a certain hold on other people and makes them more likely to act in his interests . |
| 26 | He believed strongly in the psychology of home territory , which invariably put witnesses at their ease and made them more likely to remember little details they might otherwise forget or overlook in strange or foreign surroundings . |
| 27 | If IQ were entirely inherited ( a contentious assumption ) and if IQ were related to crime ( many studies have found that low IQ is ) , this would be perfectly compatible with an environmental explanation : it could well be that people with low IQ are treated unfavourably by others and this unfavourable treatment makes them more likely to commit crime . |
| 28 | It is this aspect which then makes them more likely to produce the interlanguage of signs in English order . |
| 29 | The bones gradually become thinner and more porous — that is , they have holes , and this makes them more likely to break . |
| 30 | This in turn could make them more likely to survive a second mutation at the p53 locus ( which is frequently seen in cancer cells ) , or indeed at any other locus . |