Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] they are [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know actually only Prudential they are leading a campaign round schools I believe erm you know trying to get more teachers interested in A B Cs . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's so sad they are forced to endure such stress . |
| 3 | That will depend on their view of the liquidity of both debt and equity markets : the more liquid they think these are , the less likely they are to sit on cash or to refrain from borrowing , and the more likely they are to pay large dividends . |
| 4 | The tax signalled that he was both tough on the deficit ( it will raise , he hopes , $12 billion over the next five years , and $12 billion a year thereafter ) and serious about the environment ( the more people have to pay for energy , the less likely they are to squander it . ) |
| 5 | And partly this is because the closer you get to concrete ‘ race relations ’ the less likely they are to conform to the models which have informed policy making . |
| 6 | Larger samples will increase precision , the less likely they are to vary from the population value , and the more confident we can be that our sample estimate of the population value is within a given range of accuracy . |
| 7 | The basic argument is that the more adolescents are supervised by their parents and , perhaps , their teachers , the less likely they are to become involved with or influenced by delinquent contemporaries and delinquent values . |
| 8 | A group of woman so poor they are forced to scavenge coal dust from the sea are looking to Oxfam to help them to create a better life . |
| 9 | The younger your child is the less able they are to remember what happened even a few days ago , so they need you to keep in touch with them . |
| 10 | The Milne and Stewart Consultancy 's survey indicated that the further away from London that people live , the more willing they are to move , with the least mobile staff living in London and the South East ( see Table 1.4 ) . |
| 11 | Similarly , vice versa : the less likely the prospect is a ‘ good ’ borrower , the more likely they are to need credit and apply . |
| 12 | The nearer the foundations , the more likely they are to unsettle or destabilise the whole structure . |
| 13 | ‘ The more they can see business reasons for what they do , the more likely they are to continue their support . |
| 14 | The more parents understand the details of the curriculum content and methods of assessment , the more likely they are to act in partnership with teachers to foster pupil motivation and hard work . |
| 15 | The muddier the bottom the more likely they are to suck and blow the bait to clean it . |
| 16 | Teachers have found that the more solutions and strategies pupils see and discuss , the more likely they are to develop a real appreciation of mathematics at their own level . |
| 17 | When you choose your army remember that the more Mobs you have the more likely they are to fail an Animosity test . |
| 18 | That will depend on their view of the liquidity of both debt and equity markets : the more liquid they think these are , the less likely they are to sit on cash or to refrain from borrowing , and the more likely they are to pay large dividends . |
| 19 | The more such errors appear in the learning process , the more likely they are to appear later in the use of the language . |
| 20 | The more the people share activities , the more likely they are to interact with one another . |
| 21 | Our children need to be aware that the more sexual partners a person has , the more likely they are to have sex with someone who is HIV+ , although the risks of infection are greatly reduced if they practise Safer Sex . |
| 22 | Income seems more closely related to whether or not people have ever used any form of credit than any other characteristic : the higher someone 's income ( at least up to a certain level ) , the more likely they are to have used at least some sort of credit sometime . |
| 23 | There is little variation by sex or social class in these attitudes , and little consistent variation with age except that the older the respondents , the more likely they are to consider Respect for authority and Discipline and orderliness essential , and the less likely to consider Sex education essential . |
| 24 | The more games they play the more likely they are to win nothing . |
| 25 | In general , the fewer mental symptoms people experience and the less preoccupied they are with an internal abnormal world , the more able they are to live successfully in the community . |
| 26 | This new vision began to prove that the more you strip the documents the more mysterious they are found to be . |
| 27 | They make quite sure they are getting enough vitamins . |
| 28 | Though often very successful they are attacking the symptoms of the world 's problems , not the causes . |