Example sentences of "more [adj] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The geysers and mud pools of Rotorua are more striking seen from ground level than from the air , but the great geyser still looks impressive from 1,500 feet . |
| 2 | 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 ) ; |
| 3 | A transatlantic vagrant , larger , longer-billed , much more prone to run on land , white rump , no wing-bar. 9 in. ( 23 cm . ) . |
| 4 | The former will generally be more straightforward to use for word processing but may not have any database management system programs Some word processors do have other programs available but the choice is unlikely to be as great as that relating to one of the popular micros Second . |
| 5 | It would have been more appropriate to leave in rain . |
| 6 | If the company feels that it can largely pass changes in input prices on , it will be more appropriate to focus on productivity changes than on absolute cost changes . |
| 7 | Someone concerned at the suffering might well think it more appropriate to work for reformation rather than abolition . |
| 8 | ‘ THEY 'RE MORE LIKELY TO LIE ABOUT DRINK HABITS ’ |
| 9 | In fact a man in his late forties is five times more likely to die of heart disease than a woman of the same age . |
| 10 | Not only are you much more likely to die from lung cancer or heart disease , but other illnesses highlighted in this booklet , including cervical cancer , are associated with smoking . |
| 11 | Not only are you much more likely to die from lung cancer or heart disease , but other illnesses highlighted in this booklet , including cervical cancer , are associated with smoking . |
| 12 | The average black boy is more likely to go to prison than university . |
| 13 | these figures do not show that black people are more prone crime , but they do suggest that black people who offend are more likely to go to prison . |
| 14 | IF one partner has not been married before and the other one has , the couple are more likely to go into marriage than a couple where both partners have been married before . |
| 15 | As is widely known , results showed that those in the experimental group were more likely to remain at home than those in the control group , that the scheme held no cost disadvantages , that levels of subjective stress in carers were reduced , and that there were ‘ significant improvements in a range of indicators of subjective well-being and quality of care ’ for the clients in the experimental group compared with the control group . |
| 16 | There has been some suggestion that parents are more likely to argue in front of their sons than their daughters ; that a disturbed parent is more likely to pick on a son than a daughter ; and that mothers may transfer negative experiences with their husband into negative expectations of their sons . |
| 17 | On 2o of these occasions , the target was consorting with an oestrus female and , in general , partners were more likely to join in coalition when this was the case . |
| 18 | Are the great members of the public more likely to respond to poetry and recognise it as a serious endeavour ? |
| 19 | Similarly , he felt that part-time tutors were more likely to respond to advice from a professional tutor than from someone not involved on the teaching side . |
| 20 | One retail analyst said he believed it would make customers more likely to spend on food and gifts . |
| 21 | Words in the first category seem inherently more likely to succeed as part of the vocabulary of youth culture by virtue of their being marked from the start as oppositional to mainstream culture through their Creole pronunciation , and by this route to enter the " multi-racial vernacular " . |
| 22 | The result of this dichotomy is that the employer who can rely on the right to protect his business secrets is much more likely to succeed in court than when he seeks to enforce a traditional restraint of trade clause . |
| 23 | However , small businesses also need to forecast and they are more likely to rely on judgement alone . |
| 24 | Ties with extended kin are very much a matter of personal choice ; those with members of one 's nuclear family are more enduring and more likely to lead to responsibility for care . |
| 25 | There is some evidence that the sexually transmitted form of hepatitis is more likely to lead to liver damage than that passed on by means of blood products . |
| 26 | Breaches of pollution control are more likely to be picked up ; they are more likely to lead to enforcement action , possibly criminal prosecution ; more and more remediation is demanded ; and they are more likely to have an impact on a company 's image — and hence exact a heavier toll on company profits . |
| 27 | Crane , however , argues 45 that affiliation to a prestigious university is more likely to lead to recognition for a scientist than higher productivity . |
| 28 | Crane , however , argues that affiliation to a prestigious university is more likely to lead to recognition for a scientist than higher productivity . |
| 29 | It is true that we live in an age when people are increasingly more likely to act on intuition , but many are still able to calculate when two and two add up to five . |
| 30 | and you 've got a group , the rich within the agricultural sector who are going to invest and they are more likely to invest in agriculture . |