Example sentences of "more [adj] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Infanticide is a defence to murder , but it is more usual to charge infanticide in the first place . |
| 2 | Moreover , system investments have created economies of scale where few existed before and have begun to make it more possible to derive benefit from global ‘ scope ’ . |
| 3 | The advantages of gamma scintigraphy are offset by the fact that patients are required to be static during imaging , whereas it has been shown that it is more reliable to monitor reflux in ambulant patients than patients restricted within a hospital routine . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If an employee respects a person for his/her knowledge or ability to do their job , then they will be more willing to take order for this person . |
| 6 | Because the DUP is more willing to court confrontation with the police and the forces of law and order than is the OUP , working-class loyalists seem to suppose that the DUP endorses and shares their willingness to go even further in seeking confrontation . |
| 7 | It is noticeable that managements are more willing to give responsibility to the project leader than they are to delegate commensurate authority . |
| 8 | So , for example , instead of concentrating resources on child benefit , it may be more sensible to increase provision for child care , so women may enter the job market . |
| 9 | However , it is only more economical to buy paint in tins provided that you use it quickly , within weeks . |
| 10 | However , it is only more economical to buy paint in tins provided that you use it quickly , within weeks . |
| 11 | Although it is still popularly assumed that men are more prone to fall prey to the ravages of ‘ burnout ’ due to overwork and unhealthy lifestyle , all the evidence now points to women , especially aged between 35 and 50 , as today 's prime targets of stress . |
| 12 | For years , researchers assumed that these preferences were learned , and that men simply thought it was more manly to choose meat over ‘ wimpy ’ treats such as cream cakes and pastries . |
| 13 | We found it far more instructive to analyse balance in terms of the cross-curricular ‘ generic activities ’ of reading , writing , listening , drawing/painting , collaboration and so on which are a universal feature of primary classroom life , regardless of the curriculum labels used . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It is this University 's view that selective payments to a minority are more likely to do damage by their divisiveness than to benefit the University by encouraging those who receive them . |
| 16 | Where the Children 's Bureau had now advanced from restraint to diversion as a treatment for masturbation , Isaacs was giving a brief account of Oedipal conflict and advising parents that they were ‘ far more likely to do harm by rushing in to scold or correct than by leaving the child to deal with it himself — in a general atmosphere of calm goodwill ’ , and was citing Dr Ernest Jones in her support . |
| 17 | Now they are more likely to do research on narrow topics like arms control . |
| 18 | Second , if they were sympathetic , they were more likely to enjoy freedom in publicizing their science if they were Protestants . |
| 19 | Single cells ca n't be moved with the mouse , and ranges which are in the process of being copied or moved look identical , so you 're more likely to lose track of what you 're doing . |
| 20 | Patterns of victimization vary : females are more likely to fall victim to violence in their homes ; whilst males are more likely to fall victim to violence in a ‘ road , street or park ’ , or in a place of recreation . |
| 21 | Patterns of victimization vary : females are more likely to fall victim to violence in their homes ; whilst males are more likely to fall victim to violence in a ‘ road , street or park ’ , or in a place of recreation . |
| 22 | Larger libraries were more likely to mention expansion of management training , and even more likely than small libraries to want greater flexibility with staff . |
| 23 | Often Marxist and neo-Marxist sociologists try to distinguish classes according to their role within the economic system , while Weberians are more likely to analyse class in terms of the market situation of particular occupational groups . |
| 24 | However , those who had expressed a general interest in politics during the parliamentary mid-term were more likely to see bias on the television and in their papers early in the campaign . |
| 25 | Snow is more likely to cause damage to a small-mesh net . |
| 26 | As we move into our twenties and thirties , hormones are no longer racing through the body like the clappers and , from time to time , the penis is more likely to cause embarrassment by its lack of activity than by its exuberance . |
| 27 | Young people from working-class backgrounds , for instance , are more likely to spend time with a boy/girl-friend whereas young people from G middle-class backgrounds continue to move around in mixed sex groups for a longer period , perhaps anticipating an extended period of dependence on parents as they head for further or higher education . |
| 28 | For the same reasons that the female is more likely to acquire infection in the throat than her male sexual partner , the homosexual male who practises oral sex is more likely to be infected in the throat than his heterosexual equivalent . |
| 29 | Older people are more likely to represent health as a state of social functioning , such as being active . |
| 30 | Demand for funds was more likely to exceed supply in manufacturing districts , and country banks in this situation drew on their correspondents in the City by sending in immature bills . |