Example sentences of "[noun] are [verb] to [be] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this view is held then it makes sense to borrow funds now at low rates to obviate the need for borrowing later , when funds are expected to be more expensive . |
| 2 | Therefore , letter strings that form words are considered to be more plausible than letter strings that do not form words . |
| 3 | Hence character combinations that form words are considered to be more probable than character combinations which are not words . |
| 4 | The savings are estimated to be more than £250,000 annually . |
| 5 | These low amplitude propagated contractions are reported to be more frequent . |
| 6 | British companies are beginning to be more aware of the needs of their disabled employees , and the potential benefits of continuing their employment . |
| 7 | It follows that technically it is possible to dispense with " truth-talk " altogether , and if so , the alleged puzzles surrounding the concept of truth are shown to be more artificial than real . |
| 8 | At the end of a day 's banking some banks are going to be more liquid , as a result of net deposits and other banks are going to be less liquid than they were at the beginning of the day 's business , as a result of a net withdrawal of deposits . |
| 9 | Now , he finds people are beginning to be more open about their sexuality , and consequently he has been promoting the activities of the centre for sexual problems in Istanbul . |
| 10 | Nothing is known of their breeding habits , but females are believed to be more robust than males . |
| 11 | Controlled term indexing languages are claimed to be more consistent and therefore more efficient , but the many tests on indexing languages have failed to prove this convincingly . |
| 12 | The agency was forced to reverse its decision under legal pressure from the steel industry , largely because the NAAQSs for suspended particulates did not make a distinction between particulate sizes , even though smaller particles are known to be more harmful . |
| 13 | Children are believed to be more vulnerable than adults , who are thought to have built up an immunity after a similar , but much less virulent virus appeared last year . |
| 14 | However in my written statement , I have suggested that certain of the criteria are going to be more appropriate to a local plan rather than to a structure plan . |
| 15 | This could in turn explain why a higher proportion of experimental eggs were rejected at Santa Fe than at Guadix , because hosts are known to be more likely to reject alien eggs when they are alerted by encounters with the adult parasite in the vicinity of their nest . |
| 16 | ‘ soldiers are bound to be more healthy . |
| 17 | A further advantage of the new index investment trust is that dealings in its shares are expected to be more liquid than in the individual shares of many smaller companies . |
| 18 | Production lines in Japanese enterprises are organized to be more flexible than the simple linear track of a Fordist factory . |