Example sentences of "was more [adj] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the play , Cyrano de Bergerac 's single voice was more effective to drive the bad actor Montfleury off the stage than the protests of all the rest of the audience to restrain him . |
| 2 | Only in a few instances were brass or copper depositum plates provided , for it was more usual to outline the initials , date of death and age of the occupant on to the lid with black-headed upholstery nails with the possible addition of a skull and crossbones outlined at the head of the lid , whilst the sides were decorated with a single row of close-set nails all round . |
| 3 | It was all the wrong way round , I thought : it was more usual to know the crime and seek the criminal , than to know the criminal and seek his crime . |
| 4 | Simultaneously , Jack Wood , soon to be returned unopposed in the forthcoming municipal election , told the West Ham Trades Council that ‘ he was more delighted to have a place on ( the ) united Labour Party platform than to have a seat on the council ’ ( ibid ) . |
| 5 | Professor Dinwiddy was more willing to accept the existence of a revolutionary movement in Lancashire and the West Riding which had begun to mobilise in a rudimentary way and which did administer oaths and invoke the name of Ludd . |
| 6 | So it was more convenient to raise the body up off the ground and sprint for short lengths on the rear legs with the tail , now much thicker and longer , acting as a counter-weight . |
| 7 | Solomon Schonfeld was more inclined to regard the arrival of these children as a God-given opportunity to correct the errors of their families . |
| 8 | Moreover , no ruler had a title longer or more complex than that of the tsar ; and none was more ready to resent the omission of even the smallest part of it . |
| 9 | Plotinus also advanced beyond Plato by modifying the latter 's famous metaphor of time as the moving image of eternity , since he was more concerned to stress the difference between , rather than the resemblance of , time and eternity . |
| 10 | It was more important to set the processors ' internal patch levels so that when switching between processors the levels still matched . |
| 11 | To Great Britain and Austria-Hungary it was more important to check the expansion of Russia than to win territory . |
| 12 | ‘ Right from the beginning I 'd felt it was more important to have a woman with me than my partner . |
| 13 | There has been a dramatic increase in knee injuries since the '70s , when it was more common to break a leg ; serious knee sprains , probably involving torn ligaments , are at least ten times more likely than broken legs — mainly because bindings now release when they are meant to and boots give greater support to the lower leg and ankle . |
| 14 | Merton , for example , was clear that totalitarianism was more likely to foster an attack on the ethical independence and institution of science than was liberal democracy . |
| 15 | In the fifteenth century it had been a practical way of making agriculture more profitable , in the sixteenth it was more likely to create a vagrancy problem as men were dispossessed from the land , and this indeed was a social issue which came to the forefront of public attention in the Tudor period . |
| 16 | His mature face was more likely to remind the observer of Friar Tuck 's jollity than of Lord Brougham 's long pointed nose . |
| 17 | Nothing was more likely to bring a smile to his face than being told he was talked about . |
| 18 | Indeed , Jacobite activity was more likely to provoke the wrath of the common people . |
| 19 | Tonight he knew he was more likely to find the right and athletic partner in the wicked little friend who knew how to dance and how to steal , and how to do both quickly . |
| 20 | The tables show that an animal was at greatest risk of being stolen in the Low Country , but until around 1895 a person was more likely to steal an animal in the Intermediate area . |
| 21 | There was much that was more likely to inspire a smile than to send us rushing from the gallery complaining about the injustices of patriarchy , which is probably the best way to subvert the system . |
| 22 | Towards the end of field-work a constable newly transferred to the Neighbourhood Unit from one of the sections expressed his difficulties in adjusting to the new round of duties , stating that it was more difficult to pass the time because nothing seemed to happen ( FN 17/12/87 , p. 16 ) : establishing informal contact with the public was not yet itself seen as doing police work and boredom was unappealing . |