Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] more [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does appear that the non-enrollers were more likely to be affected by personal circumstances than the migrants . |
| 2 | Within a diocese charity schools were more likely to be found near the cathedral city than in outlying regions . |
| 3 | In other measurements , too , it has been noted that the importance of units was more likely to be appreciated among higher attaining pupils . |
| 4 | In looking for a situation , Allen recalled reading that a script was more likely to be accepted if there were few characters and few scene changes , making it cheaper to produce . |
| 5 | The Home Office Statistical Bulletin 6/89 ( Home Office 1989c ) found black defendants were more likely to be remanded in custody than white defendants , yet a higher proportion were subsequently acquitted . |
| 6 | In fact , the defendants were more likely to be insured on an all risks policy for council employees . |
| 7 | If children were shown how to learn rather than told what to learn , the skills and processes which apply to all subject areas were more likely to be mastered . |
| 8 | Owen admired her independence , but felt that reconciliation was more likely to be achieved in her absence . |
| 9 | Herbert Morrison was an advocate of tighter centralised control , and the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Fuel and Power , Sir Donald Fergusson ( who believed nationalisation would only work if the public corporations were genuinely independent ) felt that independence was more likely to be achieved with a larger corporation which was more able to resist direct government intervention . |
| 10 | Those with qualifications of any sort were more likely to be in paid employment ( 59% of those with school leaving qualifications , 37% of those without ; difference 16.7% to 34.9% ) at all levels of disease severity . |
| 11 | At least in manufacturing , fixed-term contract workers were more likely to be found in establishments where unions had a higher level of membership or had been granted recognition . |
| 12 | The worst of the slimy pools of sweated and casual poverty were more likely to be filled by the native than the immigrant . |
| 13 | Older viewers and those in the professional or middle classes were more likely to be offended than those who were younger or working class , the study found . |
| 14 | Furthermore , Asians were more likely to be victimised by strangers , 27 per cent of the incidents involving groups of four or more offenders unknown to them . |
| 15 | In general , children under 5 years were more likely to be upset at the birth , but neither sex of the child nor separation at the birth determined the reaction . |
| 16 | More and more members of the American foreign service were coming to question the belief , strongly held at the end of the war , that the USSR was more likely to be caught up in rivalry with the British than with the United States . |
| 17 | While Frank was ‘ climbing , fighting , playing , & robbing orchards ’ , Coleridge was more likely to be found in the meadows by the River Otter — first of those rivers , brooks and springs that were to work so powerfully on his mind — or close by at the sandstone cavern known as Pixies ' Parlour , where with the ‘ hand of … childhood ’ he carved his initials in the rock . |
| 18 | He thought that as the plaintiff was more likely to be insured against the risk , then the loss should lie with the plaintiff . |
| 19 | Reports reviewed recently by the General Accounting Office showed that capital punishment was more likely to be imposed if the murder victim was white rather than black . |
| 20 | The hospital attenders were more likely to be registered with a practice with no diabetic miniclinic and with a general practitioner with no special interest in diabetes . |
| 21 | Because of data limitations we were not able to see whether establishments which experienced ( substantial ) fluctuations in demand for their output were more likely to be greater than average users of temporary workers . |
| 22 | In the USA some interesting research ( Zuravin and Watson , 1987 ) has been conducted into anonymous reports of child physical abuse , which indicated that reports made by anonymous sources were more likely to be unfounded than reports made by professionals and nonprofessionals . |
| 23 | Manufacturing establishments were more likely to be users of agency workers , service establishments of fixed-term contract workers , although this difference was solely a consequence of the practices of public sector service establishments . |
| 24 | Similarly , aberrant sexual behaviour was more likely to be treated as organic malfunction in middle class women and insanity in working class women . |
| 25 | With the advent of cheap microcomputers in the mid-eighties , the typical humanities scholar was more likely to be found doing research at home on a personal computer , attached no doubt to a network , but engaged much less interactively with colleagues in the computing centre . |
| 26 | Instruction was more likely to be given in units where there was also a high level of ‘ publicity ’ generating activity . |
| 27 | Huge grants of land to the church became rarer ( but so did the chances of resuming what had once been granted ) ; from the middle of the century , gifts were more likely to be of consuetudines from ecclesiastical lands or of other tolls and dues . |
| 28 | In comparison to their parent of the same sex , those who responded to the questionnaire were more likely to be engaged in non-manual occupations ( difference 4.2% to 28% for men and 2.7% to 28.7% for women ) . |
| 29 | Taking into account the fact that they made fewer comments about individual types of credit than men , women 's comments were more likely to be that they did not know how a type of credit worked than men 's ; and less likely to say that it was easy to understand and use . |
| 30 | Davies and Brooke found that model eggs that were placed in the host 's nest in the morning were more likely to be ejected than those placed there in the afternoon . |