Example sentences of "[pers pn] more [adj] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is this aspect which then makes them more likely to produce the interlanguage of signs in English order . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Without exports to put an edge on the market breeders find it more profitable to put a Charolais on their Welsh Black cows . ’ |
| 5 | As most readers of the BMJ are not acupuncturists we found it more accurate to give the location in centimetres rather than cuns . |
| 6 | Others have found it more advantageous to acquire a local bank or set up a joint venture with local banks . |
| 7 | Some users may find it more convenient to grip the sander by this pack rather than on top . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Some say it is an irresponsible attitude but is n't it more irresponsible to use a vote just because the law commands it ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The clash between Government and teaching unions certainly made it more difficult to extend the teacher 's role . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The gradual consolidation of wealth in the party was making it more difficult to preserve the classless , " one nation " appeal to working-class supporters . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Withdrawing the hand too far makes it more difficult to launch a fast follow-up technique . |
| 26 | As in the case of housing , local councils find it more difficult to operate a service according to need rather than demand . |
| 27 | Implicit within the ruling was the concept that once an abortion restriction had been upheld in one state , other states could implement it , an interpretation which effectively made it more difficult to challenge the imposition by individual states of restrictions as long as they were within the guidelines established by the Court 's ruling in June 1992 on Roe v. Wade [ see p. 38954 ] . |