Example sentences of "were more [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the items were more tricky to reproduce than others ; corn-on-the-cob , cauliflowers , mushrooms , cucumber halves and even a half-peeled banana for instance ! |
| 2 | They were more anxious to escape criticism than to honour Martin . |
| 3 | The reason for this seems to have been that Victorian British industrialists looked for a quick return , while the Germans were more prepared to take a long view . |
| 4 | Despite the difficulties in changing attitudes outlined in this chapter , there is little doubt that workers in mainstream social services provision were more prepared to accept the idea and practical implications of integration provision than those in mainstream education . |
| 5 | Now , I 'm not a sociologist but I would say i it meant that children without both were more prone to trouble , or more prone to erm lack of parental control or lack of love , care there has , I mean somebody can draw a a conclusion from that , but barely fifty ! |
| 6 | Similarly , telex and faxing were more analogous to mail than to the press . |
| 7 | Trade unions , despite a loss of membership and their apparently weakened position , appear to have performed more effectively after the General Strike than before — which suggests that employers were more reluctant to become embroiled in major industrial conflict and that the unions were , themselves , asserting their rights in more effective and varied ways . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Courses for professionals were more likely to be more specific , while larger authorities were more likely to carry out more specific training and more management training . |
| 10 | They say that more of the therapy group were married , and married people with cancer are known to survive longer ; that help with pain control meant they were more likely to remain active and continue with exercise ; and that they tended to eat better . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Government departments were more likely to give instruction than private industrial/commercial organizations . |
| 13 | Agency workers , too , were more likely to give not wanting a permanent job as their reason for working on a temporary basis . |
| 14 | Working-class home-owners were more likely to vote Conservative than working-class council-house tenants . |
| 15 | Given this situation , some girls were more likely to spend their time cultivating romance than academic qualifications . |
| 16 | Welsh mothers , in contrast , were more likely to use talcum powder . |
| 17 | But contraceptive techniques were improving throughout this time and successive marriage cohorts were more likely to use contraception ( table 4.2 ) and use it more effectively than before ( Rowntree and Pierce 1961 , Langford 1976 , Cartwright 1978 , Dunnell 1979 ) . |
| 18 | In a national survey , ‘ forward planners ’ in all classes had lower fertility ( and family size clustered more tightly around an average of two children ) , and were more likely to use effective methods of contraception . |
| 19 | In line with other studies , we found that larger establishments were more likely to use temporary workers but , and more important , we also found that they were not more likely to be " high users " of temporary workers . |
| 20 | In the manufacturing sector , establishments with a low skilled labour force were more likely to use fixed-term contract workers , and those with a more highly skilled one less likely . |
| 21 | In addition , although users of fixed-term contract workers were more likely to use agency workers ( and vice versa ) , the differences were small . |
| 22 | They were more likely to use paper tissues , mainly because of the convenience but often more simply because of the location of tissues in the house . |
| 23 | They are unlikely to satisfy the test required by the main argument , i.e. that individuals were more likely to succeed in realizing that which reason required of them if subjected to the government concerned than if left to themselves . |
| 24 | The meeting felt that job descriptions should be renegotiated so that regradings were more likely to succeed . |
| 25 | While they generally accepted the legitimacy of Whitehall interventions as ‘ bankers ’ to the industry in the annual investment review , when it came to discussion of other policies they were more likely to complain about the time that Whitehall committees and correspondence pre-empted , and to show impatience with civil service style . |
| 26 | Although some social class differences in preferences for certain domestic activities were found middle-class women were more likely to dislike domestic service activities such as washing floors and dishes — the more fundamental sense of these as a feminine responsibility persisted . |
| 27 | Data from a study in Wales suggested that patients treated by geriatricians were more likely to receive post-discharge services than their contemporaries treated by general physicians ( Victor and Vetter 1985b ) . |
| 28 | Owner occupiers were more likely to relocate but the most likely were those in rented accommodation from private landlords or those living rent free . |
| 29 | Of these , women and older people were more likely to enjoy looking at photographs of the Royal family . |
| 30 | Second , if they were sympathetic , they were more likely to enjoy freedom in publicizing their science if they were Protestants . |