Example sentences of "were more [adj] to have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , the police ( who had only a marginal role in enforcing the new order , and who sometimes perhaps accepted it with less than utter enthusiasm ) were more likely to have diverse tribal allegiances in the larger settlements nearer the cities or in strategically more significant places . |
| 2 | They were more likely to have been bell towers , although Neeld was very much of the feudal landlord ilk and everything was designed to give an impression of vast wealth and efficiency , ’ he says . |
| 3 | People who lived longer were more likely to have spent some or all of the last year of their lives in residential homes . |
| 4 | When the type of home was taken into account , those dying of respiratory disease were more likely to have been in nursing homes — 14 per cent compared with 6 per cent for those dying of other conditions — whereas those dying of stroke were more likely to have been in old people 's homes : 27 per cent against 12 per cent . |
| 5 | When the type of home was taken into account , those dying of respiratory disease were more likely to have been in nursing homes — 14 per cent compared with 6 per cent for those dying of other conditions — whereas those dying of stroke were more likely to have been in old people 's homes : 27 per cent against 12 per cent . |
| 6 | And among those people with confusion , constipation and incontinence , those in residential homes were more likely to have had the symptoms for a year or more . |
| 7 | One interesting finding was that people who reported personal contact with suicide attempters were more likely to have hostile attitudes towards attempted suicide . |
| 8 | Cost , or the need to plan within specific budgets , was more likely to be mentioned by the training officer group , perhaps because they were more likely to have specific budgets . |
| 9 | Manual socio-economic grades were more likely to have favourable views of HP and mail order than people in non-manual grades , and were particularly likely not to know how bank loans or credit cards worked . |
| 10 | Wright ( Finch and Groves , 1983 ) reports a small survey of single carers from which women were more likely to have given up employment than men in order to care for parents , sometimes giving up secure and well paid work when in their late forties or earlier fifties . |
| 11 | Those with the longer periods received higher payments than those with shorter periods and were more likely to have retired early . |
| 12 | These then are the main characteristics which distinguish the early retired from other older workers who remained actually or potentially in the labour market : the former were more likely to have been close to pension age , to report ill health , to be better off financially and to have non-manual occupations . |
| 13 | The difference is explained by the greater likelihood of men having held pensionable jobs , both because full-time jobs held by men were more likely to have pension rights than women 's , and because , before the age of retirement , a majority of older women had either no paid job or a part-time job with no pension provision . |
| 14 | After birth they were more likely to have shared a bed with another person than non-Maori infants ( χ 2 =42 , df=1 , p<0.001 ) . |
| 15 | In the magnetic resonance imaging studies subjects who showed the more severe white matter changes had worse recent phenylalanine control and were more likely to have been on a normal diet without protein substitute for longer ( A J Thompson , I Smith , D P Brenton , personal communication ) . |
| 16 | The work characteristics and social support were more likely to have been misclassified than some of the other explanatory variables . |
| 17 | Men said they were more likely to have an orgasm , but that there was more exploring and learning involved with a woman . |
| 18 | On the one hand , having been ‘ on the scene ’ for some time , they were more likely to have come into contact with other injectors . |
| 19 | Lawyers for whom ducal service constituted a major part of their career were more likely to have been drawn from outside the duke 's regional orbit . |
| 20 | The farm workers were far more village orientated , were more likely to have been born and bred locally , and had lower incomes and poorer access to housing . |
| 21 | Those who became unemployed as a result of the ending of a temporary job , but who did not become long-term unemployed , were more likely to have experienced three or more spells of joblessness and to have had three or more jobs in the 20 months following initial registration than were the sample as a whole . |
| 22 | SSDs had more knowledge of the number of disabled people in their area than had housing departments , and they were more likely to have specific policies on meeting their needs . |
| 23 | The current generation of older women were more likely to have contracted poliomyelitis , are more likely to have strokes or develop multiple sclerosis . |
| 24 | Older women ( 55–9 ) in employment were more likely to have started their working lives in manual occupations , particularly semi-skilled factory work , than younger women and , therefore , their access to occupational pensions was more restricted ( Martin and Roberts , 1984 , p. 146 ) . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | Mothers who had finished full time education before age 17 were more likely to have their membranes artificially ruptured before labour than more educated women ( 120/972 ( 12% ) v 33/422 ( 8% ) , p<0.05 ) . |
| 27 | In addition , patients entering this study were more likely to have had no symptoms of heart failure than those in the SAVE study , in which treatment for heart failure was permitted . |
| 28 | Studies published in the late sixties reported that asthmatic women were more likely to have babies of less than 37 weeks ' gestation than non-asthmatic women . |
| 29 | Our adjustment for these confounding factors meant that any remaining differences in perinatal mortality rates were more likely to have been due to differences in the care received by patients . |
| 30 | These children had easily excitable nervous systems and the very shy were more likely to have a thin face and blue eyes . |