Example sentences of "were [adv] [adv] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand the slaves were rather more likely to revolt at sea than anyone else , and they were much more likely to commit suicide or die of shock and despair . |
| 2 | In the main , they both consisted of boys and young men who were rather more reluctant to join in the ritual chanting and singing and were even less keen to get mixed up in the aggro . |
| 3 | When pressure was put on them for more radical appointments , invitations were mostly too late to make any significant impact . |
| 4 | Other social roles within the Rowdies group were much less easy to isolate . |
| 5 | But heavy users of credit were much less likely to label it as expensive . |
| 6 | Women with power , for example , were much less likely to conform to their role stereotypes than those without ( Bampton 1970:193 ) . |
| 7 | They were much less likely to say there were laws or regulations protecting people who take out credit agreements , and much more likely not to know whether any action could be taken over some credit agreement which they had signed but later felt was unfair . |
| 8 | However , independent agents were much less likely to plug the three main tour-operators . |
| 9 | However , independent agents were much less likely to plug the three main tour-operators . |
| 10 | Furthermore , they found that female clerical workers were much less likely to achieve promotion than their male counterparts . |
| 11 | Elderly people living with other , younger people were much less likely to have had a home-help visit in the last month than households containing only elderly people . |
| 12 | If we look at the corresponding figures for murders ( which were much less likely to have been concealed ) , there is no sign of any change due to X. This is an example of an artefact due to change in instrumentation ( more complete recording , in this case ) . |
| 13 | Subsequently , they were much less likely to avoid the saccharin solution than rats which had been given water instead of vinegar ( Revusky , 1971 ) . |
| 14 | Women who had such a relationship with a husband or male partner were much less likely to develop depression than those who did not . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , ex-care women were much less likely to experience the protective effect of a non-deviant supportive spouse , firstly because they were more likely than comparison women to marry men with problems , and secondly because they were much more likely to be without any kind of spouse . |
| 16 | Some officers , used to patrolling the ‘ bobby-bashing streets ’ , were much more prone to start with the truncheon . |
| 17 | The electorates in the open boroughs and in the counties were much more difficult to control . |
| 18 | In the detailed cross-tabulations for our main survey ( not always included in Appendix I ) , we found that women were much more likely to say they did not know what sort of interest rate to expect , and to say they did not understand interest rates well . |
| 19 | Those who did respond were much more likely to say that little or no contribution was fair . |
| 20 | Hough and Mayhew ( 1988 ) regard these figures as underestimates and Worrall and Pease ‘ s ( 1986 ) re-analysis of the BCS data which looked at all crimes , and attempted crimes , involving contact and where the victim could identify whether or not they knew the offender , found that women were much more likely to say that they knew the offender well and that the offender was a spouse in nearly 40 per cent of cases . |
| 21 | Upper socio-economic single girls were much more likely to say that they did not use soap and water because it would ruin their skin . |
| 22 | The conventionary tenants were much more likely to live locally . |
| 23 | Older people were much more likely to give high ratings to politicians of all kinds and , to a lesser extent , to parties of all kinds . |
| 24 | Not surprisingly , it was noticeable that the authorities in the CRUS sample who said that they had a training officer were much more likely to describe a corporate/consultative process , ( see Table 32 ) , than those who did not indicate any designated training officer . |
| 25 | They were much more likely to stick to the ‘ maginot line ’ of municipal antiracism and therefore , paradoxically , to experience any shift away from that defensive position as a retreat . |
| 26 | We shall not have his own view of his archiepiscopal obligations in proper perspective unless we realize that local territorial disputes were much more likely to precipitate a final crisis than any ecclesiastical issue . |
| 27 | For the elderly patients , however , psychiatrists were much more likely to make domiciliary visits , and to take a lead in service planning . |
| 28 | On the other hand the slaves were rather more likely to revolt at sea than anyone else , and they were much more likely to commit suicide or die of shock and despair . |
| 29 | In practice the widowed of any age were much more likely to stay in their own homes than to move to find support . |
| 30 | Those returning to a discordant family environment were much more likely to become pregnant than those who returned to a harmonious family or remained in the institution until achieving independence . |