Example sentences of "[pron] more [adj] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | like someone more anxious to save the wrapping |
| 2 | There was nobody more certain to lose a race than a jockey with no self-confidence . |
| 3 | It is this aspect which then makes them more likely to produce the interlanguage of signs in English order . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But his omission is because no northern commissions were appointed — something more likely to reflect a readiness to wait for Gloucester 's advice than an intention to snub him . |
| 7 | But his omission is because no northern commissions were appointed — something more likely to reflect a readiness to wait for Gloucester 's advice than an intention to snub him . |
| 8 | You 'd do something more likely to reap a financial return , such as throw it off the top of Blackpool Tower in a Force Nine gale and run down the 763 steps to see if you could catch any of it before it blew away . |
| 9 | Without exports to put an edge on the market breeders find it more profitable to put a Charolais on their Welsh Black cows . ’ |
| 10 | As most readers of the BMJ are not acupuncturists we found it more accurate to give the location in centimetres rather than cuns . |
| 11 | Others have found it more advantageous to acquire a local bank or set up a joint venture with local banks . |
| 12 | Some users may find it more convenient to grip the sander by this pack rather than on top . |
| 13 | For developing countries , this internalisation of innovation makes it more desirable to strike a bargain with the innovator , because the alternative of paying patent fees simply does not exist . |
| 14 | Since boards of directors tend to be unsympathetic to such questions , the personnel manager generally finds it more expedient to adopt an imaginative approach to the information he supplies . |
| 15 | Some say it is an irresponsible attitude but is n't it more irresponsible to use a vote just because the law commands it ? |
| 16 | In addition to making it more difficult to organize a legal protest , the regulations gave the authorities the right to use " all police measures " to suppress illegal demonstrations . |
| 17 | The clash between Government and teaching unions certainly made it more difficult to extend the teacher 's role . |
| 18 | Other women find it more difficult to broach the subject with a long-term partner as that person is used to having sex in a certain ( possibly unsafe ) way . |
| 19 | The pike is perhaps in a similar difficulty as a human who is trying to hit a moving tennis ball when someone throws a second ball across his visual field ; it makes it more difficult to hit the ball . |
| 20 | But the recession may even be healthy in making it more difficult to publish the second-rate , he argues : rather than having a clear strategy of which subjects they would concentrate on , far too many academic publishers were happy simply to print a selection of the manuscripts they were sent , including multi-authored books and conference proceedings which tended to be of limited academic market . |
| 21 | The gradual consolidation of wealth in the party was making it more difficult to preserve the classless , " one nation " appeal to working-class supporters . |
| 22 | One further point of possible confusion : because venture capital from investors looking for capital gains is not available to co-operatives , they are likely to find it more difficult to raise the larger sums of money needed to start capital-intensive projects . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , is my hon. Friend the Minister not concerned about the growth in size of housing associations , which might make it more difficult to maintain the personal contact with tenants which is an important aspect of good housing management ? |
| 24 | But if the stranger was an exact replica of myself , behaved in exactly the same way , etc. , he would obviously find it more difficult to make a correct identification . |
| 25 | It was a bizarre kind of inconsistency , and that made it more difficult to make the decision to join Fleetwood Mac , because we thought there might be something going on here . |
| 26 | While financial institutions can see that such technology saves them cash , companies that find it more difficult to calculate the cost of a breakdown are more reluctant to commit . |
| 27 | I think Cruttenden 's arguments are in many ways convincing , but one must recognise that if intonation is influenced by and reflects the grammar , it follows that it must be a help to listeners in interpreting the grammar of what they hear , and perhaps more importantly , if a speaker 's intonation is inappropriate in relation to the grammar , listeners will find it more difficult to interpret the grammar , and may be confused . |
| 28 | It is an aspect of privacy we should take more seriously ; it may seem a frail distinction to draw when armed police can batter down your front door on suspicion that a wanted person may be inside , but at least it gives the possibility of some redress , and may make it more difficult to achieve the total surveillance of society . |
| 29 | Killing of the California grey will continued to be banned , but there is concern among conservationists that the delisting will make it more difficult to measure the impact of offshore oil drilling on its habitat . |
| 30 | Withdrawing the hand too far makes it more difficult to launch a fast follow-up technique . |