Example sentences of "to be more [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it 's probably going to be more frustrating to have a fax sitting there and you ca n't get through . |
| 2 | If the recovery is faltering he 'll clearly want to be more keen to cut interest rates , and also he 'll want to take into account the effect of any tax increases he may introduce in his budget . |
| 3 | It seems to be more practical to opt for control on some form of ‘ toggling ’ basis , which is the method of control used in this program . |
| 4 | Third , because women 's and men 's lives are organized very differently in our society as a whole , women seem to be more available to provide any assistance which involves input of time and domestic labour . |
| 5 | However , schema-consistent information is assumed to be more easy to integrate into existing memory structures and more likely to be subsequently recalled since active schema guide and cue the retrieval process ( Brewer & Treyens , 1981 ) . |
| 6 | In ( 135 ) , although make would have been possible , the writer has chosen cause , and has thus felt it to be more appropriate to represent the subject of the verb ( " raising the temperature of a compound " ) as an external condition which sets off a reaction of decomposition in compounds rather than as an agent which exerts its causative action at the same time as the reaction occurs . |
| 7 | The former could cover all cases but it is felt to be more appropriate to use fairness in the context of , for example , company inspectors , or immigration officers . |
| 8 | Whilst first aid remedies may be of use for each episode of acute illness , proper constitutional treatment and advice is likely to be more appropriate to help with the long term tendency to become unwell repeatedly . |
| 9 | Both single people and married couples may feel a sense of frustration as the years in which they had planned to be more free to go out and about , and less restricted financially , are circumscribed by the demands of caring . |
| 10 | The second , popularly believed to be more likely to succeed , challenges the constitutionality of the settlement on the basis that it went beyond the powers of the 1985 Act . |
| 11 | Oriental cats in general seem to be more likely to indulge — and Siamese cats in particular . |
| 12 | Following this logic , only those depressive conditions where a stressor is apparently absent should be considered as ‘ real ’ depression , which is also sometimes assumed to be more likely to include psychotic symptoms and biological dysfunction . |
| 13 | The central idea of kin selection is that a gene A , causing an animal to be more likely to perform an act X , may increase in frequency in a population even if act X reduces the individual fitness ( expected number of offspring ) of the animal itself , provided that the act increases the fitness of animals related to the actor . |
| 14 | The ‘ tightly knit ’ Asian community , symbolized by the ‘ tightly knit ’ Asian family was said to be more likely to create a supportive educational environment ( DES , 1985 , p. 85 ) . |
| 15 | This would seem to be more likely to occur in longer input utterances . |
| 16 | This could in turn explain why a higher proportion of experimental eggs were rejected at Santa Fe than at Guadix , because hosts are known to be more likely to reject alien eggs when they are alerted by encounters with the adult parasite in the vicinity of their nest . |
| 17 | Boys who were caned at school for smoking were found to be more likely to increase their smoking than those not caned . |
| 18 | Those who coped less effectively , and allowed themselves to become trapped into unsatisfactory lifestyles , were found to be more likely to become depressed , perhaps because they had reduced their chances of achieving a dependable , intimate relationship with their husband , or increased their chances of stressful lives . |
| 19 | Two specimens tend to be more likely to fight than small groups . |
| 20 | the exercise encouraged greater communication with governors ( a number of whom read the whole study ) , and between the Deputy Head ( Curriculum ) and more junior staff ( who seemed to be more willing to ask for help ) ; |
| 21 | Teachers appear to be more willing to support the development of a common core curriculum ( Venning , 1979 ; Wicksteed & Hill , 1979 ) : a change that is mirrored by opinions in the ‘ Week by Week ’ column of Education ( 2 Nov. 1979 : 11 Jan. 1980 ) which tries to reflect the current climate . |
| 22 | This is usually a result of family and marriage ties and so an employer might expect young unattached female staff to be more willing to relocate than married women . |
| 23 | There may be a general tendency to exaggerate ; couples seem to be more willing to abandon expectations of a third child than they are to opt for a third child after stating an earlier preference for two . |
| 24 | Where loss has been caused by an act or omission which is of a comparatively mechanical character , rather than involving an exercise of business discretion , the courts have , in contrast , shown themselves to be more willing to impose liability . |
| 25 | The result is quite striking : the richer respondents claim to be more prepared to break the law than the poorer ones , despite their apparent lesser chances of actually breaking it from the conviction statistics . |
| 26 | It is likely to be more difficult to change attitudes or behaviour through advertising than to reinforce them . |
| 27 | The shortest stories in Greyhound for Breakfast owe a lot to Kafka 's briefer parables , though they are apt to be more difficult to understand ; and there can be no doubt that Beckett 's solipsistic tramps have left an impression on the earlier writings . |
| 28 | Two wheeled carts are easier to balance than a single wheeled barrow , but tend to be more difficult to manoeuvre . |
| 29 | They overwhelmingly reported the roads to be more difficult to cross than five years previously , the change being ascribed to increased volumes of traffic ( 89 per cent ) and faster traffic ( 28 per cent ) . |
| 30 | Plus the fact you do n't have a n er contact name so it 's going to be more difficult to get connected to anyone . |