Example sentences of "[be] far more [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As my hon. Friend clearly knows far more about the Bill than does the Secretary of State , I am far more likely to get sensible answers out of him . |
| 2 | And there , as someone else said , erm earlier , organizing their party , the day of their life which happens to be also their wedding day , and those sort of parties are far more fun to work at than the far more stilted family affairs that do happen for younger people . |
| 3 | But overseas royal families are far more ready to put hand in pocket . |
| 4 | On the other hand , admissions to Tertiary Colleges are far more difficult to control . |
| 5 | Posters are far more difficult to monitor : in the past , agencies used to have their own teams of inspectors , but this is no longer done , and the only real check on the presence and condition of posters is a regular service run for the past 10 years by the Poster Advertising Bureau , which reports on the level of damage to posters , as a stimulus to the contractors to take care of their sites . |
| 6 | Ethical considerations are far more difficult to rationalist . |
| 7 | They are far more likely to exceed the quota , and having been brought up they must now forfeit their new-found surplus and be brought down . |
| 8 | In general , it seems that those with atopic symptoms — hay-fever , perennial rhinitis , asthma or urticaria — are far more likely to respond to dietary treatment . |
| 9 | Currently those women who do take science A levels and who go into higher education are far more likely to choose to study medical or biological subjects than physical sciences or engineering . |
| 10 | It would seem that we are far more likely to obey unquestioningly when the authority figure is actually present . |
| 11 | This means our mailings to advisers are far more likely to reach the person they are intended for . |
| 12 | You are far more likely to use a method regularly and properly if you feel it is the right one for you . |
| 13 | They are far more likely to use their discretion when dealing with the middle-class offender , thus the middle-class offender is far less likely to actually come to court . |
| 14 | Psychiatric research has found that children who are deprived of physical demonstrations of love are far more likely to manifest behaviour problems and to grow into emotionally unbalanced adults , unable themselves to give or receive any kind of love or warmth . |
| 15 | ‘ Evidence seems to suggest that young drivers are far more likely to have accidents , which is not surprising because they are very inexperienced , ’ he says . |
| 16 | It is clear that individuals in the ‘ higher ’ occupational groupings are far more likely to have high incomes and to be owner-occupiers than those in the lower groupings , and it is also clear that children of higher category parents have a much better chance of extending their education beyond the minimum , and of qualifying for higher status occupations themselves ( Goldthorpe , 1980 , Halsey et al . , |
| 17 | It is not simply a matter of the harm done by passive smoking but it is an accepted fact that the children of smokers are far more likely to adopt the habit themselves . |
| 18 | Chemical weathering or salt crystallisation or both combined are far more likely to provide the cause . |
| 19 | Twins are far more likely to share the disease than siblings of different ages . |
| 20 | If you can simulate attacking and being attacked , then you are far more likely to find out whether your tactics and movements are effective . |
| 21 | In practice , national or local restrictions ( or lack of restrictions ) on public spending are far more likely to influence the eventual figure reached than are formulae involving use and depreciation of stock , and the librarian may find that the most useful lever for increasing his estimates before his finance committee is his comparative position — in relation to comparable systems — in the league table of local authority bookfunds . |
| 22 | But a senior social worker says he believes young offenders who are sent to court for first offences are far more likely to commit new crimes . |
| 23 | Try being happy now — it 's catching , so other people are far more likely to seek your company . |
| 24 | TEENAGE girls are far more likely to end up as gymslip mums now than a decade ago , according to a Government report . |
| 25 | Yet the schools they attend are , on the whole , not as good in terms of status , teacher input and , sometimes , physical surroundings ; they make less use of the educational system beyond the compulsory school stage ; they are less likely to pass government examinations and go on to university ; and they are far more likely to end up in manual occupations , just like their fathers and mothers . |
| 26 | The irony is that once we no longer desperately need another person but really enjoy life for its own sake we are far more likely to make a satisfying relationship . |
| 27 | The report concluded that ‘ all the evidence is that while a gradual change in eating patterns may yield slower results , those results are far more likely to prove permanent ’ . |
| 28 | School-based initiatives are far more likely to prevent either casual truancy or its exacerbation into persistent truancy . |
| 29 | Less skilled negotiators are far more likely to get locked into an attacking spiral where one side attacks the other which provokes a counter attack and so on . |
| 30 | Less skilled negotiators are far more likely to match a proposal with a counter proposal . |