Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We were dead lucky to get to bed without a belting on a Sunday . ’ |
| 32 | He is always half turned to darkness and death , a part of him inarticulate , caught up in gloomy , speechless passion . |
| 33 | The line of soldiers was still half standing to attention when I went through them . |
| 34 | My parents moan at me because I am not always willing to go to work . |
| 35 | The average black boy is more likely to go to prison than university . |
| 36 | these figures do not show that black people are more prone crime , but they do suggest that black people who offend are more likely to go to prison . |
| 37 | Are the great members of the public more likely to respond to poetry and recognise it as a serious endeavour ? |
| 38 | Similarly , he felt that part-time tutors were more likely to respond to advice from a professional tutor than from someone not involved on the teaching side . |
| 39 | Ties with extended kin are very much a matter of personal choice ; those with members of one 's nuclear family are more enduring and more likely to lead to responsibility for care . |
| 40 | There is some evidence that the sexually transmitted form of hepatitis is more likely to lead to liver damage than that passed on by means of blood products . |
| 41 | Breaches of pollution control are more likely to be picked up ; they are more likely to lead to enforcement action , possibly criminal prosecution ; more and more remediation is demanded ; and they are more likely to have an impact on a company 's image — and hence exact a heavier toll on company profits . |
| 42 | Crane , however , argues 45 that affiliation to a prestigious university is more likely to lead to recognition for a scientist than higher productivity . |
| 43 | Crane , however , argues that affiliation to a prestigious university is more likely to lead to recognition for a scientist than higher productivity . |
| 44 | These findings are also in line with figures produced by the Justices ' Clerks ' Society ( 1992 ) which we cited earlier , suggesting that for a given range of offence types , Crown Courts are very much more likely to resort to custody than magistrates courts , and to do so for longer . |
| 45 | However , babies who have received supplementary bottle-feeds ( see p 244 ) are more likely to react to cow 's milk than anything else . |
| 46 | An American clinical study ( Anderson and White , 1986 ) also suggests that problems in step families are more likely to relate to parenting issues between adults and children than to the parents ' marital relationship . |
| 47 | Alcohol misuse is more likely to come to light via marital disputes , repeated driving offences , accidents , absenteeism and progressive inability to cope at work . |
| 48 | Though earlier examples may be found , those of the eighteenth century are more likely to come to hand fairly often , e.g. , The Tatler , begun in 1709 , The Spectator ( 1711 ) and The Guardian ( 1712 ) . |
| 49 | However , a person who based his or her sense of worth entirely on achievement would be much more likely to succumb to depression in the event of such employment problems . |
| 50 | On Sundays she would invite a group of Magdalene undergraduates to lunch and they would stay till tea ; then another group still larger came to tea . |
| 51 | They were having a mission at the time and the preacher told Mother that it would have done her far more good to go to chapel than knit a quilt . |
| 52 | We were married at home , and one of the reasons why is because we bought a very old house about three years ago and on the top floor it has a , a large room which used to be the ballroom , and we did a little research and we found that the last wedding that we know of in the house took place in seventeen fifty eight , when apparently it was very common in Scotland to get married at home , it was more uncommon to go to church . |
| 53 | Two years after the onset of symptoms the patient was still unable to return to work . |
| 54 | Although very pale on the Monday , like many of your sons and daughters now , she decided it was more important to go to school to sit her mock G C S Es . |
| 55 | We have become more civilised and more sensitive to the needs of individuals , and more reluctant to pander to prurience : hence our law against naming rape or blackmail victims , the limits on reporting evidence in divorce cases , and the rules against revealing old criminal convictions . |
| 56 | Women are generally less tied to their work and more able to adjust to retirement ( though as more and more women devote great energy and interest to a career , this is changing ) . |
| 57 | He observes that ‘ the rider with high ambitions and little knowledge will be more inclined to revert to punishment than will the more experienced rider . |
| 58 | Psychiatrists studying shopping behaviour have found — not surprisingly — that the hungry woman is much more inclined to succumb to impulse food buys . |
| 59 | It had been recognized that Liberals had been more adept at handling the press because they were more ready to stoop to newspaper practices , as Sandars had reported in 1909 : |
| 60 | You presumably all listen to radio , watch television and so on . |