Example sentences of "are [adj] [verb] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two giant reservoirs — the Sardar Sarovar in Gujarat and the Narmada Sagar in Madhya Pradesh — are each to hold more water than any others on the Indian sub-continent . |
| 2 | He says that some bank lenders and creditors have already indicated they are prepared to lend more money to the company . |
| 3 | SF incoherence has been adopted by mainstream writers — from Borges to Rushdie , Doris Lessing to Woody Allen — as literacy and literary competence has developed and spread , and readers are prepared to accept more incoherence in texts and make more effort to resolve meanings . |
| 4 | These readers , the assumption might run , are at ease with the complexities of rhythm and vision , pattern and play , and united by this ease are free to discriminate more and more finally the detail of the smallest fragment or the structure or the entire work . |
| 5 | In Zone ‘ UK ’ , 67 per cent of humans are willing to exchange more currency for such objects . |
| 6 | The South Koreans offer cheaper materials and are willing to do more of the grunt work than Americans or Europeans are . |
| 7 | These results support the hypothesis that individuals are willing to pay more in order to live in communities that provide high-quality services . |
| 8 | They are prone to accumulate more nutrient than is good for them ; and , of course , they tend also to accumulate toxins . |
| 9 | Though heads are delighted to have more autonomy — they will now be able to hire a plumber without going through the town hall — many feel that they are being buried under a mountain of paperwork . |
| 10 | Because of the uncertainties ahead , which are likely to cause more difficulties for smaller companies , the bulk of the trust 's portfolio is , at present , mainly in the larger blue chip companies . |
| 11 | We are likely to see more agreements offering better deals to part-timers , to entice mothers back to work , as the demographic changes begin to bite . |
| 12 | General checklists or weighting systems not based on such an understanding are likely to do more harm than good . |
| 13 | When employees are dissatisfied with aspects of formal organisation ( eg. they dislike the work they do or the person they work for ) they are likely to rely more and more heavily on an informal organisation at work to satisfy their personal needs in their work situation . |
| 14 | They will encounter and come to understand a wide range of feelings and relationships by entering vicariously the worlds of others , and in consequence are likely to understand more of themselves . |
| 15 | The various records are likely to contain more data . |
| 16 | But the Canaries are likely to have more success if they throw 29-year-old Crook into the equation . |
| 17 | It seems that younger people are likely to have more contact with the community ( to go on exchanges , visits etc. ) and have more use of the language ( at school , with peers of the second language community ) . |
| 18 | As sociological interest in the problem grows and develops , we are likely to have more understanding of these questions . |
| 19 | In some ethnic minority families as a result , women are likely to have more children to look after than white families and less older relatives around them to help . |
| 20 | This may be due to a lesser degree of familiarity with the larger units which are 1,000 times as large as the smaller units with which the pupils are likely to have more practical experience . |
| 21 | The increased detail of these codes means that hospital coders are likely to have more difficulty in coding clinical work accurately . |
| 22 | One can still argue , as I have argued myself in connection with the correlation of the north-west European Trias , that major events , such as marine transgressions on to one part of a continent , are likely to have more widespread effects in the rest of that continent . |
| 23 | Homes built in 10 , 20 or even 100 years time are likely to have more similarities than differences to the houses of today , with technological advances incorporated unobtrusively into the design . |
| 24 | These factors along with demographic trends and recent events in Eastern Europe are likely to have more influence on labour mobility than the legislation programme to allow for free movement of labour . |
| 25 | But plans are afoot to raise more cash from new programme sales . |
| 26 | Day by day , the Government are unwilling to put more money into training . |
| 27 | If you are unwilling to do this , you are unlikely to get more of it . |
| 28 | Yes , computers have practically infinite branching capabilities , but this matters little when we are unable to foresee more than a very few of the more common possible learner responses . |
| 29 | This is because females reared on larger hosts are able to lay more eggs , but males do not gain by being larger . |
| 30 | Small scale research suggests that when children are relieved of the burden of hand-writing and hand-rewriting stories they are able to give more attention to structure and composition . |