Example sentences of "you are more [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I venture to suggest you are more likely to turn to the books of both authors after reading their contributions in Esquire . |
| 2 | When you telephone someone you are more likely to intrude at an inconvenient time and not realize it . |
| 3 | Feedback is easier to accept if you can do something constructive once you have got it ; if you know how to develop yourself , you are more likely to welcome feedback when it is offered and also more likely to solicit it actively . |
| 4 | If you subject your fish , which will already be disturbed by the journey from the dealer to your pond , to a further spell in ‘ solitary ’ you are more likely to lose it from stress than from specific infection or parasite infestation . |
| 5 | If you believe your company manufactures the best food products , then you are more likely to do your best for the company . |
| 6 | If it is pulling water from the bottom of the pool , you are more likely to encounter blockage than with a mid-water feed . |
| 7 | The data underline the fact that you are more likely to succeed with people if you think about your behaviour and select and use behaviours that help rather than hinder progress towards your objective . |
| 8 | And if you get an interview you are more likely to succeed if you can prove that you are a positive person who has made demonstrable efforts to counteract the ill-effects of being unemployed and have managed to put your time to constructive use . |
| 9 | Secondly , if you listen carefully you are more likely to make the right responses to what is being said to you . |
| 10 | However , if you have a lot of sex , you are more likely to get cystitis , thrush and swollen genitals , anus and mouth . |
| 11 | Not only does this mean that you are more likely to get at the truth , but it is also likely to be more fruitful for whatever purpose you have in mind . |
| 12 | And it 's much more usual for that kind of thing to happen , so that you are more likely to get a , a minister who has a very good idea about how erm the civil service functions because he 's been part of it . |
| 13 | Different individuals work at different speeds — you are more likely to achieve most if you can work at a speed which challenges you but which is not beyond your capacity to attain . |
| 14 | If you have high levels of DHT , you are more likely to suffer acne , get excessive facial hair , have more developed breasts and sometimes lack of periods , than women whose hormone levels are balanced . |
| 15 | This is a village of wide gabled houses , every one with window boxes full of colourful flowers ; of streets where you are more likely to come across a lumbering hay cart in no hurry at all , rather than an impatient motorist blasting his horn at everything in his way , and of friendly locals . |
| 16 | The loch contains salmon , sea-trout and brown trout , with each species preferring certain areas : salmon in one place , other areas where you are more likely to catch sea-trout , and always , throughout the whole length , brightly marked , wild brown trout . |
| 17 | To the aficionado , angling is both peaceful and exhilarating , to the uninitiated , sitting on a river bank on which you are more likely to catch a score of gnats than one trout , seems a long-winded way of getting a fish dinner . |
| 18 | Therefore , you are more likely to become pregnant if intercourse occurs at the onset of ovulation . |
| 19 | You are more likely to influence others if you make your points clearly , forcefully and succinctly . |
| 20 | In addition , if you become more actively involved in Compact , you are more likely to influence its direction than if you sit on the sidelines . |
| 21 | Once you have learned to see the difference between your own three Faces , you are more likely to look behind the mask presented by others and to understand them better . |
| 22 | IT 'S Friday the 13th tomorrow — and you are more likely to have car problems than on any other day . |
| 23 | You are more likely to have a useful conversation about safer sex if you do n't leave it until you are sexually aroused , drunk , or very tired . |
| 24 | You are more likely to have a productive and relaxed discussion if you are not sexually aroused , or drunk , tired or angry with each other . |
| 25 | You are more likely to have a rug accepted by an auctioneer if you are prepared to put it up without a reserve ( a figure agreed between you and the auctioneer below which they will not sell the rug ) , but this is extremely risky as it could then be sold for far less than it is worth . |
| 26 | This is especially true on cold days when you are more likely to pull or strain a muscle , ’ says Nigel . |
| 27 | The seller wo n't admit to having noisy neighbours , but you are more likely to find out if you make further visits . |
| 28 | In this way you are more likely to extract the whole larva without damaging it . |
| 29 | Vary what you do , so that you are more likely to stick to a regular programme . |
| 30 | If on the other hand the video is to be a record of a once in a lifetime trip , you are more likely to accept the need to go fully equipped and ready for all eventualities . |