Example sentences of "[adv] more [adj] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is perhaps more appropriate to regard the personal/subjective and objective forms of discourse merely as different forms of textual practice : putting " voice " into text is just a stylistic convention . |
| 2 | Thus , in the context of consensual sexual activity with a girl under the age of 16 , it states : ‘ Most of us think that acts such as oral sex are extremely serious ( perhaps more likely to disturb a young girl meeting them for the first time than sexual intercourse ) . ’ |
| 3 | Nida similarly explains that ‘ in some Nilotic languages the passive forms of verbs are so preferred that instead of saying ‘ he went to town ’ , it is much more normal to employ an expression such as ‘ the town was gone to by him ’ . |
| 4 | For this reason , it is often much more effective to press the different parts of the spray individually and then reconstruct them once they have been pressed . |
| 5 | If this is the case it might be much more effective to scrap the mailing and to talk personally to the journalists concerned . |
| 6 | Since the 1978 UN Conference on Health at Alma Ata it has become a universal wisdom that it is much more effective to build a primary health care network than to spend the same money on a few prestige hospitals which could only ever be used by an urban elite . |
| 7 | Much more effective to get the very attractive bridge in as well . |
| 8 | The consensus thus established is much more likely to create an environment which reflects the now in education ; it will certainly be more effective than either radical revolution , deschooling or free schooling . |
| 9 | However , since joint production and ( more clearly ) joint marketing is much more likely to create the undesirable anticompetitive effects which cause concern than joint R&D is , it seems reasonable to insist that firms which propose extending joint activities beyond R&D must bear the burden of proving that such extensions are in the public interest . |
| 10 | Not surprisingly , it was noticeable that the authorities in the CRUS sample who said that they had a training officer were much more likely to describe a corporate/consultative process , ( see Table 32 ) , than those who did not indicate any designated training officer . |
| 11 | Generally speaking , however , novelists are much more likely to celebrate the domestic virtues that , given half a chance , the working class can be expected to display ; and , in order to produce that image , a certain amount of cleaning-up goes on . |
| 12 | It 's 3 inches shorter than a Mini , 15 inches shorter than a Metro , but it 's much more likely to turn the heads than your average suburban runabout . |
| 13 | You are much more likely to receive a complete and considered answer if you do this . |
| 14 | Other things being equal it appears that those remanded in custody are more likely to plead guilty , substantially less likely to be acquitted and very much more likely to receive a custodial sentence on conviction than their counterparts who are remanded on bail ( see , eg , Bottomley , 1970 ; Davies , 1971 ; and also Home Office , 1990f , Tables 9.6 and 9.9 ) . |
| 15 | What that means is that if you have a spontaneous abortion , you 're much more likely to abort a male than you are to abort a female . |
| 16 | Therefore , whereas prescribing budgets will inevitably be set in the aggregate , taking into account local social and epidemiological factors , both PACT and formularies are much more likely to lead the GP to consider why a particular drug , and not an alternative including no drug , should be given in a particular instance . |
| 17 | Administrators with a natural science background are much more likely to display a technocratic mentality than those trained in the social sciences ( Putnam , 1977 , p. 404 ) . |
| 18 | We shall not have his own view of his archiepiscopal obligations in proper perspective unless we realize that local territorial disputes were much more likely to precipitate a final crisis than any ecclesiastical issue . |
| 19 | Overworked officials in finance ministries rarely reject a whole list of potential projects ; they are much more likely to identify a few priorities at random , and pass on the donor to the line ministry , hoping for the best if and when the project is financed . |
| 20 | ‘ the layman may well wonder why we do not consult the Parliamentary Debates , for we are much more likely to find the intention of Parliament there than anywhere else . |
| 21 | As one would expect , training programmes , after an initial emphasis on ethics and aspects of the situation ( e.g. court interpreting ) , have begun to focus on the interpreting task itself , and are much more likely to follow a pattern similar to spoken language interpreting . |
| 22 | As a consequence , it is much more likely to win the resource . |
| 23 | Home moviemakers are much more likely to buy a video camera than a film camera nowadays and there is a range of equipment for the domestic market which also finds its way into institutions . |
| 24 | The man who is convinced that his little clam-digger is much smaller than that of his peers will be delighted to discover that he is much more likely to have a greater co-efficient of linear expansion than his mates . |
| 25 | Secondary schools in particular were much more likely to have a health education policy if one existed at Regional level . |
| 26 | Males are much more likely to have a monosyllabic first name ( Jim , Fred , John ) , and much less likely to have a name of three or more syllables ( Christopher , Nicholas ) . |
| 27 | Pluralist political decision-making also contrasts with decisions taken by non-political units , such as households or firms , where the decision-makers are much more likely to have a common set of objectives and so are able to follow rational decision-making procedures . |
| 28 | A man who became 40 just before or just after 1 January 1986 is much more likely to contribute a death to the numerator than a man who became 40 in the early days of 1985 or the last days of 1986 . |
| 29 | In turn , clients ' expectations are growing ; they are more informed , more knowledgeable about the process , much more likely to adopt an open style , and want to know the key facts , expecting a high level of overall professionalism . |
| 30 | Warning the child that he or she will go to bed at the end of the programme is much more likely to produce a successful outcome . ) |