Example sentences of "[pron] is more [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be that someone is more likely to commit an anti-social act when under stress . |
| 2 | She had already been given an operation for biliary atresia which is designed to unblock or bypass the blockage leaving scar tissue which is more likely to bleed . |
| 3 | It is change of this kind which is more likely to surprise and challenge you when you first return . |
| 4 | Censorship is a recurring problem in libraries , and there is no issue in librarianship which is more likely to bring libraries on to the pages of the Press , frequently in a damaging and trivial representation of the library profession . |
| 5 | With all the rain emptying itself over the Feyenoord Stadium it was hard to put last night 's match in the context of a World Cup which is more likely to present problems of heat than waterproofing . |
| 6 | Those who show their fish and spend thousands on a single Koi do advocate quarantine , which is more likely to mean housing their new arrivals for months , rather than days , in a whole separate pool : in this instance , the stress factor does not apply . |
| 7 | This is in part because , relative to their weight , they consume both more food and larger quantities of fruit , which is more likely to contain significant levels of pesticides . |
| 8 | Such a government has authority over just about everyone in certain matters ( those where individuals have reason to pursue goals requiring social cooperation which is more difficult to achieve in other ways ) and various degrees of more extensive authority in varying measure over different people , either in virtue of other factors covered by the normal justification thesis or through voluntary submission by consent or respect . |
| 9 | That she is more liable to leave work just when she is getting most useful [ in other words ] there are more changes in a crowd of women workers than in a crowd of men workers.32 |
| 10 | Strike up some personal rapport with the person in charge Of the centre so that he or she is more likely to go that extra mile for you . |
| 11 | Nowadays she is more likely to drive to a favourite beach on the south coast so that she can enjoy the wind in her hair and the tang of the sea breeze on her face . |
| 12 | A sudden request is doomed to failure but if the mother has gained the child 's attention first she is more likely to achieve compliance . |
| 13 | If musical politics now involves a constantly shifting ‘ war of position ’ , Adorno helps us to understand the enemy , but it is Benjamin who is more able to offer the tools to carry on the struggle . |
| 14 | Further , Cutting ( 1985 ) cites research evidence which shows that in monozygotic twins discordant for schizophrenia , it is the identical twin experiencing the more complicated birth who is more likely to develop schizophrenia . |
| 15 | So while we may now know something about who is more likely to abuse and who is more likely to be a victim , we do not know why , when , how often and with what degree of certainty , abuse will take place , nor what the consequences will be for the child . |
| 16 | But it is the parent who is forever admonishing the infant to ‘ be careful ’ who is more likely to instil fear into the young mind . |
| 17 | It is understandable that a civil servant takes longer to negotiate or work out a solution over which he is unenthusiastic , the result being that by the time the work is complete , there is a new minister who is more ready to see the weaknesses of this line of action . |
| 18 | Students awarded more than one resit must choose , in consultation with their personal tutor , which one is more important to take . |
| 19 | Apart from the ‘ evidence ’ of classical Greece , another main plank of the argument in favour of this belief is the hypothesis that one is more likely to put together two statements in writing and then compare them than two oral utterances . |
| 20 | One is more likely to see examples of the results of it however . |
| 21 | ( Care must be taken in interpreting these probit equations : note that positive because the higher the price the more likely it is that all will be sold ; is positive because as the horizon approaches one gets less fussy , and so one is more likely to sell at a lower price ; the other signs follow from similar arguments . ) |
| 22 | Instead of the answer ‘ no ’ , one is more likely to hear something non-committal such as ‘ Let me think . ’ |
| 23 | At other times it is more effective to ignore history and etymology in order to make a feminist point . |
| 24 | Mr Kinnock has learnt that it is more effective to mock the Prime Minister as an anachronism in a brave new world than snarl the word ‘ Thatcherism ’ and present her as the personification of all evil . |
| 25 | From a public health viewpoint , it is more useful to monitor HIV infection ( because of the long AIDS incubation period ) and to analyse , for example , transmission in newly infected cases to implement control measures . |
| 26 | It is more useful to argue the variable nature of the relationship between the individual and society than to assume a linear evolution towards the autonomous self . |
| 27 | It is more useful to talk of a black ‘ underclass ’ defined in terms of a whole variety of employment , housing and educational deprivations which are the bases for relatively unplanned spontaneous actions , as in the urban riots in 1981 and 1985 ( see chapter 5 ) . |
| 28 | At its simplest , you can divide all purchases into ‘ day-to-day ’ and ‘ occasional ’ , but it is more useful to make a more detailed breakdown , which relates both cost and frequency of purchase , and produces a scale , something like that shown in Table 6.1 . |
| 29 | It is more useful to express equation ( 8.32 ) in terms of the chemical potentials of the pure solvent and the solvent in solution , by differentiating the expression with respect to the number of solvent molecules N 1 to obtain the partial molar Gibbs free energy of dilution ( after multiplying by Avogadro 's number ) , |
| 30 | Rather than trace individual papers in detail , it is more useful to look at the development of particular classes of paper . |