Example sentences of "[is] more [adj] to have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the bound produced by Fudenberg and Levine is correct in the limit too , because in the limit the payoffs are equivalent , but for any positive discount rate it is more profitable to have a permanent reputation . |
| 2 | Though separate volumes sometimes have their own index , it is more usual to have a complete index at the end of the final volume , and the presence of this can sometimes be a useful guide . |
| 3 | In recent times it is more usual to have some element of discussion , partly because of the increasingly democratic style of organisations and partly because the variety of relevant technology requires a correspondingly wide range of expertise . |
| 4 | An interesting point is that the words " yielding and paying " actually imply a covenant to pay the rent , but it is more usual to have a specific tenant 's covenant in this regard . |
| 5 | Rather than overcrowding the wallspace with closely packed displays which can result in visual muddle , it is more striking to have fewer , more defined displays that are changed quite frequently to stimulate and maintain interest . |
| 6 | In these cases it is more desirable to have the person or item carry the required information . |
| 7 | Right , you can only bend , you can only put the arm in the position that your casualty will let you of course , but it is more comfortable to have it bandaged in that position , than having it like that . |
| 8 | It is more convenient to have it grown for us , harvested for us , and in some cases , meals actually prepared for us . |
| 9 | ‘ It is more important to have happy franchisees because this is a team effort and there is a connection between all franchisees . |
| 10 | However that may be , we suggest that it is more important to have committed members than representative ones , and in this regard our evaluation of the Coordinating Team is very positive . |
| 11 | It is more important to have a good character than to be clever or intelligent . |
| 12 | Always cut well on the waste side of your pencilled guidelines , you can always cut a bit more off if need be , but it is more problematic to have to try to glue bits back on if you have overcut . |
| 13 | the interlinked corpus difference : it is more common to have several different documents open at the same time , e.g. a tutorial document that links to a reference document . |
| 14 | The very fact that the visit is ‘ in an entirely private , unofficial capacity ’ ( the Cardinal 's words to me last week ) is more likely to have some beneficial effect in the ‘ diplomatic minefield ’ to which your correspondent refers than the more usual protocol-and-agenda-laden expedition . |
| 15 | On the other hand , if we look at a later decision-making episode in the same project when the pupils are temporarily in role as Indians who have to decide whether or not to receive a white stranger into their midst ( p. 53 ) , this is more likely to have been played seriously as a real game for by then the children , after several lessons on the same project , were steeped in the material sufficiently deeply to respect the rich complexity of the problem . |
| 16 | In particular , the fossil Anatolepis , which first occurs in the Upper Cambrian and has been interpreted as the dermal scales of a heterostracan fish , is more likely to have belonged to an arthropod . |
| 17 | The sentence is not related to the offence so much as whether the defendant is homeless , jobless , or has been the subject of a care order , and this is more likely to have happened to black youth . |
| 18 | By contrast a lava flow-front is more likely to have a cross-section something like that in Figure 7.7 ( d ) . |
| 19 | The inventor of the German action is not known but it was used in a square piano signed ‘ Gottfried Silbermann , fevr. 1749 ’ This piano is more likely to have been made by Johann Gottfried Silbermann ( 1722–63 ) rather than by his more famous uncle , Gottfried ( 1683–1753 ) . |
| 20 | However , it must be pointed out that the traditional explanation for the destruction of woodland from the late prehistoric period onwards to provide fuel for ironworking ( and salt boiling in the Midlands ) fails to take into account the fact that such activity is more likely to have engendered conservation and careful management of woodland resources rather than wholesale clearance . |
| 21 | Much energy has been devoted to trying to establish which version is more likely to have been Christopher Marlowe 's . |
| 22 | It is coming from a region where the mean velocity is smaller and it is thus likely to be moving downstream more slowly than its new environment ; i.e. it is more likely to have negative u than positive . |
| 23 | A manufacturer using short channels is more likely to have high gross margins , but equally higher channel expenses . |
| 24 | The opening of the Channel Tunnel is more likely to have a detrimental effect on former non-scheme operators as they are largely concentrated in the South East corner of Britain . |
| 25 | No , he 's more likely to have been driving the Custom Shop totally insane for about two years straight , telephoning at obscure hours to tell them about his change of heart concerning the exact height of the fret-wire . |
| 26 | Well yes I mean it 's it 's it 's more likely to have been a muscle than anything else , with pain that comes and goes . |
| 27 | I do n't know that the school 's is the right vehicle for this because in many ways , the children who are getting into these things pay more attention to the peer group , and it 's more important to have community groups , community cafes , things which are not seen as authority getting at them . |