Example sentences of "might [be] more [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it might be more salutary to ask : what part of Europe ? |
| 2 | It might be more accurate to say that he had escaped from him . |
| 3 | On the basis of the above analysis by the Court it might be more accurate to say that the test is a commercial one but that it relates not to the transfer of ownership of enterprises , but to the transfer of economic or organisational activities . |
| 4 | The other one might be more straightforward to do one plan , cos you 've got one policy fee , one policy charge , etc , so there 's that ratio to bear in mind , but the other one might be simpler just to have two plans . |
| 5 | But it might be more appropriate to wait until nearer the time to send a memo , I do n't know . |
| 6 | In many cases it might be more appropriate to ask , ‘ Will my cover-drive make contact with the ball ? |
| 7 | This description fits the observable characteristics and progress of the disease , although it might be more appropriate to substitute the social term " " sensitivity " " for the strictly clinical term " allergy " . |
| 8 | To count the Soviet Union 's 275 millions as ‘ Pacific ’ people is stretching the point a little , and it might be more appropriate to count only those living east of the Urals . |
| 9 | It might be more prudent to go back to her bunk and hope he would go away when his hunger was satisfied . |
| 10 | Since many books that I have read on eating disorders tend to lump all the ‘ patients ’ together , ignoring their differences , I thought it might be more useful to let two girls tell their own stories . |
| 11 | Mary felt that it was too much of an intervention , operators and technicians floating around trying to get mikes here and that it was distracting … she decided it might be more useful to try and fix the camera . |
| 12 | In the context of nurses and health visitors returning to work it might be more useful to look at the ways in which regrading affects your application and appointment , and to provide you with general advice on what to expect from employers in due course . |
| 13 | With ‘ non-reminiscers ’ there would appear to be less reason to dwell on the past , and it might be more useful to avoid it unless the counsellor feels that there is a particularly strong reason and purpose for doing so . |
| 14 | With such a wide definition , it might be more useful to consider what this leaves out , rather than what it includes — which gets us back to the categories I am working with here : it excludes inheritance and invention . |
| 15 | Fourth , it might be more effective to reduce other pollutants , for example those from West German cars . |
| 16 | Was n't it possible that a man of Jamie 's age might be more able to cope with her feminism , her academic success ? |
| 17 | It might be more productive to guarantee a stable tax environment for business by indexing corporation tax allowances , for example , so that business could predict with reasonable accuracy what its tax liability would be . |
| 18 | This understanding may be due to the farmers being highly tolerant because there are so few walkers , but if you 've ever sat down to have a chat with a shepherd on the windy fellsides you might be more likely to say that tolerance and friendliness is in their nature . |
| 19 | Yeah , cos then she might be more likely to say yeah . |
| 20 | In a hostile bid , this might be more difficult to achieve without the co-operation of the target 's board ( even if the bidder can identify all the relevant contractual provisions ) . |
| 21 | Thus rather than adopting the language of coercion and hence drawing parallels between corporate officials and , say , soldiers at the front in World War I compelled to go over the top at dawn to meet the German machine-gun bullets or be shot as ‘ deserters ’ , it might be more realistic to argue that corporate officials are frequently placed in a position where they are required to choose between impairing their career chances or being a loyal organizational person . |
| 22 | If these conditions are not met , we assume that it might be more reliable to regard PCNA as a marker with its own evidence to characterise proliferative activity by scoring all PCNA reactive nuclei as positive regardless of staining intensity . |
| 23 | if Tracey can get them it might be more reliable to get them from Tracey . |
| 24 | Therefore , the sulphated compound might be more sensitive to cholyglycine hydrolase than PABA-UDCA . |
| 25 | So Nichols began to think that it might be more interesting to cast against the ‘ walking surfboard ’ kind of guy that Dustin had always envied . |
| 26 | ‘ Since we 're obviously about to enter a discussion on ethics , may I suggest it might be more comfortable to do so in my apartment over a cup of coffee and a glass of aquavit ? ’ |
| 27 | I think erm I think is quite fair maybe if concessions could be raised to one fifty or two pounds but overall I think that people who can afford it spend such a lot of money on the raffle and we therefore give raffle tickets to those who can afford it could jealousy and on the raffle generally about a hundred pounds is made and if there , if there was more charge for tickets , people might not give so much for the raffles and also if you give but if you charge them a nominal sum and then shove other things at them on their options they might be more willing to give to optional choices like a raffle . |
| 28 | Taking this kind of argument it might be more desirable to improve the lot of someone who has had a considerable amount of resources , but now in old age has very little . |