Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is obviously better if trees can be out of the ground for as short a time as possible and it is much less expensive to buy bare root transplants . |
| 2 | As a general rule books intended to attract ‘ browsing ’ readers are much less likely to warrant binding . |
| 3 | If one is of course a member of a minority , let us say , one is a Jew or erm a socialist or erm a South German , erm then one is much more likely to cherish democratic values and federal values , and much less likely to accept authoritarian rule from above . |
| 4 | If your standard way of eating ( or your slimming diet ) includes a mix of proteins , complex carbohydrate , and fresh fruits at each meal , you are much less likely to eat large amounts of refined sugar or the products that contain it . |
| 5 | Other research has shown that women with a confiding relationship are much less likely to become depressed . |
| 6 | It 's so much easier to manage complex data relationships with multiple windowed screens and point-and-shoot selection , for instance . |
| 7 | It is so much easier to understand detailed and complicated financial figures when they are explained graphically rather than as a mass of figures on a piece of paper . |
| 8 | Brotherston 's data for Scotland showed that working-class mothers were not only less likely to attend ante-natal clinics than middle-class mothers , but that when they did they were also less likely to make early bookings — a fact which he considers relevant to infant mortality . |
| 9 | I think that a chief , or perhaps a leading group would after a while be decided on and priorities set in a way more mature than the boys , but girls would be less imaginative when it came to building shelters and lighting fires , and also less physically able to lift heavy objects and build things . |
| 10 | The rest of ‘ Rebels ’ can be described as being honestly enjoyable , perhaps more fun to experience live in suitable company rather than tracking through it alone at home . |
| 11 | It 's much more clever to play hard to get , because a man does n't run after a bus once he 's caught it . ’ |
| 12 | It is much more important to blend scientific know-how with humanistic skills to achieve the best results . |
| 13 | Older people were much more likely to give high ratings to politicians of all kinds and , to a lesser extent , to parties of all kinds . |
| 14 | If one is of course a member of a minority , let us say , one is a Jew or erm a socialist or erm a South German , erm then one is much more likely to cherish democratic values and federal values , and much less likely to accept authoritarian rule from above . |
| 15 | smoking will help stress but smoking is much more likely to cause serious physical problems , than stress is . |
| 16 | As Rose observes , " Working-class voters in safe Labour seats are much more likely to vote Labour than those in the same class , but living in a marginal or Conservative constituency . |
| 17 | Exposure to the AB compound itself will be much more likely to generate latent inhibition . |
| 18 | For the elderly patients , however , psychiatrists were much more likely to make domiciliary visits , and to take a lead in service planning . |
| 19 | There certainly is plenty of evidence that women are much more likely to provide personal care for relatives than are men . |
| 20 | Those returning to a discordant family environment were much more likely to become pregnant than those who returned to a harmonious family or remained in the institution until achieving independence . |
| 21 | One of the problems is that it is much more likely to become hostile and therefore difficult to handle . |
| 22 | It must also be remembered that death usually took place in the home , not only because nineteenth century parents preferred it , but also because , before the development of antisepsis in practical nursing in the last quarter of the century , to send a patient to hospital was much more likely to prove fatal than keeping him at home . |
| 23 | He also stated that although in acute illness low potencies could be effective , in chronic conditions high potencies were much more likely to produce good results if the most similar remedy could be discerned . |
| 24 | The experience of rehabilitation centres is that people who come to them having been conscientiously cheerful since the day of their loss , who have never wept or allowed themselves to enter fully into the pain of their loss , find it much more difficult to acquire new skills . |
| 25 | Thicker films , while less liable to crinkle and curl on porous or high relief specimens , are much more difficult to mount flat , and give lower contrast and microscopic resolution . |
| 26 | The situation is quite different from that of poor aim — and much more difficult to put right . |
| 27 | If there is no crisis , top managers will find it much more difficult to achieve fundamental change , since the need for it will be questioned . |
| 28 | But psychoanalysis is much more able to discuss prohibited forms of sexuality without pathologizing them , and to describe sexuality as a matter of pleasure , dissociated from biological or social use . |
| 29 | If you are going to be integrating photographs into your documents then it is obviously fairly essential to make sure that the software can look after the TIFF file format ( or any other that you may be working with ) . |
| 30 | After devastating some local villages , perhaps as much to gain additional supplies as for any military purpose , the Norman forces had to prepare for battle with a formidable Saxon army . |