Example sentences of "[be] more [adj] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're more prepared to do the dishes or change nappies . |
| 2 | What happens with a student is they 're more likely to take the piss . |
| 3 | If they feel reasonably safe about appointing you , you 're more likely to get the job than somebody they do n't know . |
| 4 | Nowadays we 're more likely to make a wish . |
| 5 | If you think that you 're more likely to keep the price of your house high by keeping blacks out , then you 'd be likely to go for that . |
| 6 | THE Chippendales might be great movers on stage but follow their fitness video and you 're more likely to feel the pain than the burn . |
| 7 | However , for anyone who knows what the expression the Derby means , it would almost certainly have been more informative to tag the time of utterance as Derby Day , 80 . |
| 8 | Never has the time been more opportune to revive the worship of the Great Earth Goddess and her consorts ( History of the World NI 196 ) . |
| 9 | Developing-country governments have been more willing to join the cause . |
| 10 | They offended some of the more straight-laced among the constructors — people who might have been more inclined to help the Fittipaldis if they kept better company — and generally put a question mark over the Fittipaldi team : how it was surviving , with whose backing , by what means . |
| 11 | Critics of the deal , which was worked out at ministerial level , say that it would have been more sensible to spend the money on rebuilding the Villahermosa Palace to be an annexe for the nearby Prado , which is urgently in need of more space , as well as the kind of modern facilities which have ‘ put the Villahermosa among the ranks of intelligent buildings and the top museums of the Nineties ’ , as the press release boasts . |
| 12 | It would have been more sensible to reduce the period span of the book , especially as Eccleshall himself acknowledges that Conservatism in its recognizably ‘ modern ’ form did not emerge until the early nineteenth century . |
| 13 | Iran has recently been prominent in world events , which has reminded outsiders that it has never been more important to understand the people of Iran , their culture and their traditions . |
| 14 | Now , few can afford to discard the eighties equivalent of disposable fashion , the market stall tat from East End sweat shops , but for those with the readies to spend on real flash ( these are the ones who know that LV means Louis Vuitton as well as Luncheon Voucher ) never has it been more important to make a clear and expensive statement about the level of personal well-being and survival . |
| 15 | Since 1983 the leadership , having read the election defeats as a repudiation of left-wing policies , has been more concerned to reassure the electorate and attract the millions of ‘ missing ’ Labour voters . |
| 16 | Since Marxists have been more concerned to analyse the workings of capitalist societies than to draw up blueprints of collective organization after the state has withered away ( an exercise which in any case Marx regarded as Utopian and unscientific ) , it is not easy to piece together a communist theory of administration , in the sense of a model for society after the stage of socialism , during which the dictatorship of the proletariat systematically removed the material foundation of state repression . |
| 17 | In fact , Marxism has been more concerned to establish the role of the state under different conditions , than to disaggregate the state apparatus and provide a detailed analysis of one or other of its institutions , such as the bureaucracy . |
| 18 | In the 1980s Conservatives have been more likely to evaluate the mediating institutions according to whether or not they are in the public sector . |
| 19 | The improvement has been tremendous , in fact I am more willing to pay the dreaded poll tax just to see this part of Darlington looking as nice . |
| 20 | I am more likely to hit the ball to the left , so I just allow for this to happen and I do n't have to make any swing changes . |
| 21 | Unlike their Western counterparts , who usually strive for individual expression and the creation of a new visual language , oriental textile artists are more content to reproduce the time-honoured designs of their ancestors and seek to express a collective rather than an individual view of their world . |
| 22 | Modern elite theorists are more concerned to analyse the role played by elites in society than to use their internal characteristics as unified elites to explain their predominance . |
| 23 | For the moment , Italian government authorities are more inclined to see the feral dog question as a potential concern rather than a dramatic problem . |
| 24 | Instead , they are more inclined to adopt a cyclical view of time , in accordance with the periodicity of the motions of the sun , moon , and planets . |
| 25 | Bonfires are more likely to cause a nuisance during daytime hours but to limit burning to for example one hour before sunrise and one hour after sunset could lead to objections from fire prevention officers . |
| 26 | In addition , any products applied to treated skin are more likely to cause an unpleasant reaction — a particular problem since sunblocks contain a high number of potential irritants . |
| 27 | And what we do from research is that children who smoke are more likely to smoke the brands that are heavily advertised |
| 28 | They are more likely to enjoy the games themselves , and so can help the patient to have fun as he goes through the relearning process . |
| 29 | We are more likely to lose the substantially greater related fee income if we decide not to continue auditing and are thereby forced to pass the affairs of these clients to those firms who wish to be auditors . |
| 30 | Giving parents a measure of choice would , it was argued , be more likely to secure their involvement in the school and in their child 's schooling : ‘ They are more likely to support a school they have freely chosen and to give it the loyalty which is so essential if their children are to do the same . ’ |