Example sentences of "[was/were] more likely [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Older , more educated women were more likely to answer the questions correctly , but only 51 of the 150 most educated women correctly identified hypothyroidism and 105 phenylketonuria . |
| 2 | Feigen admitted , however , that primary market dealers were more likely to support the auction house practice . |
| 3 | Patients in urban areas were more likely to attend a hospital clinic ( 86% ( 1054 ) v 46% ( 442 ) , p<0.001 ) . |
| 4 | The proportion of the population screened was higher in rural areas ( 1.1% ) than in urban areas ( 0.6% ) and this may be because urban diabetic patients were more likely to attend a hospital diabetic clinic . |
| 5 | The same study found that people who read a daily paper were more likely to watch the news on TV than people who did not . |
| 6 | The 1988 BCS argues that Asians and Afro-Caribbeans were more likely to become the victims of crime but that this is : |
| 7 | Elderly women were more likely to find a home with the children than were elderly men , doubtless because they were more useful as babysitters and in doing odd bits of sewing . |
| 8 | They were more likely to find an area if a grid of squares was provided , and more likely to find a perimeter if there was no grid but distances round the edges of the figure were labelled ; the use of the terms " perimeter " and " area " , especially the latter , reduced success . |
| 9 | Afro-Caribbeans were more likely to know the offender well and were more likely than Asians or whites to be victimised by other Afro-Asians . |
| 10 | The appeals court ruling meant that several laws restricting abortion passed by other states were more likely to provide a vehicle for a reconsideration of Roe v. Wade than the Louisiana statute . |
| 11 | As in many asylums , rehabilitation had tended to revolve around the acute admission wards from which patients were more likely to make a full recovery . |
| 12 | In 1989 primiparous women aged over 35 were more likely to have a non-elective caesarean section than those aged <=35; ( 9/46 ( 20% ) v 59/618 ( 10% ) , p<0.05 ) . |
| 13 | These children had easily excitable nervous systems and the very shy were more likely to have a thin face and blue eyes . |
| 14 | Men said they were more likely to have an orgasm , but that there was more exploring and learning involved with a woman . |
| 15 | More management training was the area most commonly specified as the way in which programmes would like to be developed , less so by smaller libraries , who were more likely to indicate an undifferentiated need for ‘ more ’ training of any type . |
| 16 | Thus , while marrying the father was the most likely outcome of an extra-marital conception in 1970 ; by 1988 , single women were more likely to terminate the pregnancy or give birth to the child without marrying the father ( Figure 2 ) . |
| 17 | There is no doubt that subjects in this study were more likely to recall the situations in which they had experienced risk . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | His mature face was more likely to remind the observer of Friar Tuck 's jollity than of Lord Brougham 's long pointed nose . |
| 21 | Nothing was more likely to bring a smile to his face than being told he was talked about . |
| 22 | Indeed , Jacobite activity was more likely to provoke the wrath of the common people . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |