Example sentences of "more [adj] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would hope a club of the stature of Nottingham Forest might have been more willing to look at the domestic market if they wanted a young keeper . ’ |
| 2 | One Steiff teddy fetched £55,000 at auction a few years ago , although Stonegate 's reproduction of it is somewhat more sensible priced at £175 . |
| 3 | ‘ Nouveau riche is more interesting to look at , but of course boring to talk to . ’ |
| 4 | The girls were perhaps more interesting to look at . |
| 5 | ( Care must be taken in interpreting these probit equations : note that positive because the higher the price the more likely it is that all will be sold ; is positive because as the horizon approaches one gets less fussy , and so one is more likely to sell at a lower price ; the other signs follow from similar arguments . ) |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This problem is more likely to arise at a time when the patient is unconscious and can not be consulted . |
| 8 | The result of both explicit and covert discrimination was that boys were far more likely to succeed at public examinations and to enter higher and further education ( Wilkin , 1982 ) . |
| 9 | This has not satisfied Essex County Council , which has produced statistics showing fatal accidents are four times more likely to happen at automatic gates . |
| 10 | When you telephone someone you are more likely to intrude at an inconvenient time and not realize it . |
| 11 | What seems objectionable in Matza 's argument is that he clearly believes there is a ‘ hierarchy ’ of stances in relation to deviance , not just alternatives : the appreciative stance is portrayed as superior to either the romantic or the correctionalist in that it is inherently more likely to get at the truth . |
| 12 | Not only does this mean that you are more likely to get at the truth , but it is also likely to be more fruitful for whatever purpose you have in mind . |
| 13 | Er and erm it 's difficult for people to maintain er not only as I say , but in their lifestyle over a particular period of time , so you could be more likely to get at the truth by this method , than by sending out questionnaires . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Like his other courses this one-year programme will comprise a mix of practical and business studies , though the practical side is more likely to look at machining , timber technology and forestry . |
| 16 | Since large establishments are more likely to have at least one temporary worker than small establishments ( i.e. to be " users " ) , we broke down our results according to establishment size where we thought this to be relevant . |
| 17 | There are situations where the reciprocal of a rate would make more sense than the original rate : ergonomists , for example , might find it more natural to look at the time it takes a person to produce a fixed number of items rather than at the output a person produces from a machine in a fixed period of time . |
| 18 | So it 's just to make it much more comfortable to look at . |
| 19 | If you feel more comfortable having at least a visual dividing line between sitting and dining areas you could make a dividing ‘ wall ’ with a low storage unit . |
| 20 | However , so much of what is now being produced lacks these very qualities that it may be more useful to look at successful artists ' work to find an answer to this question . |
| 21 | Your own recognition of improved living standards as key to stabilisation of numbers suggests that it will be more useful to look at livelihoods than fertility rates . |
| 22 | North America was still such a young country in 1700 that it will be more useful to look at Europe during this time . |
| 23 | In the context of nurses and health visitors returning to work it might be more useful to look at the ways in which regrading affects your application and appointment , and to provide you with general advice on what to expect from employers in due course . |
| 24 | Rather than trace individual papers in detail , it is more useful to look at the development of particular classes of paper . |
| 25 | However , support mechanisms for information seeking in the online environment , such as shelf browsing and more sophisticated contextual subject access features , could encourage the searcher to use the catalogue and ultimately lead to more effective searching at the shelves . |
| 26 | Had she insisted that I apply leeches to her son I could not have felt more disturbed , more unwilling to assist at this medieval rite . |
| 27 | If we wish to discuss changes in punishment it is perhaps more helpful to look at the percentage of those found guilty receiving different types of sentence . |
| 28 | This makes it all the more important to arrive at the interview well prepared . |
| 29 | For insects such as locusts , which migrate over vast distances , it is even more important to fly at an economical speed . |
| 30 | And it was Silvia , not Ronni , who was the first to arrive and the more reluctant to leave at the end of each lesson . |