Example sentences of "[pers pn] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The problems are formidable and they interlock in ways that make them more difficult to tackle . |
| 5 | Intelligence would make them more difficult to control . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It is this aspect which then makes them more likely to produce the interlanguage of signs in English order . |
| 11 | The bones gradually become thinner and more porous — that is , they have holes , and this makes them more likely to break . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | One theory to explain this is that the pigmentation of the skin may affect the sensitivity of the nerve-endings , so that chestnuts may be more sensitive to outside stimuli than say bays , therefore making them more likely to over-react . |
| 14 | Diabetic patients may have a damaged myocardium due to extensive atheroma and/or small-vessel cardiomyopathy before infarction ( Hamby et al , 1974 ; Regan et al , 1977 ; Factor et al , 1980 ) , which would make them more likely to develop cardiogenic shock or heart failure . |
| 15 | The point of strengthening the UN forces would be to make them more likely to frustrate the aims of the besiegers ; more likely to frustrate means more likely to be shot at . |
| 16 | In time to come are n't you more likely to say , ‘ Oh , yes — I 've seen a kiwi , but I ca n't remember where — or with whom ’ ? ’ |
| 17 | WHEN you get a gippy tummy , which meal are you more likely to blame — last night 's curry , or yesterday 's sandwich lunch ? |
| 18 | Every dead comrade made her more determined to finish her mission . |
| 19 | The sensitive souls found her more difficult to stomach . |
| 20 | He also has to learn not to watch his feet , because bending his head downwards will probably increase his spasticity , and make him more likely to fall . |
| 21 | At night , even though the baby has woken , the quiet , dark , unstimulating environment makes him more likely to go back to sleep . |
| 22 | If a public servant cheats on his wife does this make him more likely to cheat on the electorate ? |
| 23 | The disappointment of not being selected for Rosemary 's Baby had merely made him more determined to change his life . |
| 24 | I felt he maintained a distance and because of that I found him more difficult to approach than Dalglish if there was anything I needed to discuss . |
| 25 | Or is he more likely to waive his right to succession in favour of Prince William ? |
| 26 | However , you may find it more successful to introduce more contrasting colour elements into your design . |
| 27 | T n tracts of T 9 GCA 9 persist for a relatively long time adds further weight to the suggestion that these are caused by ligand-induced alterations in local DNA structure , rendering it more susceptible to attack by this nuclease . |
| 28 | The presence of feldspar grains within a sandstone renders it more susceptible to change during diagenesis as alteration , replacement or dissolution of these grains may take place . |
| 29 | Is it more appropriate to reproduce cross-cutting sectional views ? |
| 30 | The only increase smaller than the £15 is in what is known as the terminal illness category for nursing homes , for reasons that I explained to the House in my uprating statement , where we have instead thought it more appropriate to make , through the Department of Health , an additional grant of £1 million specifically directed to the funding of hospices . |