Example sentences of "[was/were] much [adv] [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , there were much more likely to be single children still living at home . |
| 2 | Several studies have shown that crabs in shells which were too small for them were much more likely to be eaten by predators . |
| 3 | He was slightly built and liked to joke in public about his prominent ears and simian features , though contemporaries were much more likely to be arrested by the large and melancholy brown eyes . |
| 4 | SERC students were much more likely to be working in the electronic information systems industry ( eg mainframe or micro-computers , word processors etc ) and In software services than were non-SERC students . |
| 5 | Drug agencies and family planning specialists were much more likely to be contacted by secondary than primary schools . |
| 6 | In particular they had considerably more marital difficulties , and were much more likely to be currently suffering from psychiatric disorder . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , ex-care women were much less likely to experience the protective effect of a non-deviant supportive spouse , firstly because they were more likely than comparison women to marry men with problems , and secondly because they were much more likely to be without any kind of spouse . |
| 8 | Girls who reported positive experiences at school were much more likely to be ‘ planners ’ . |
| 9 | And er what they found was that the media sensitive managers were much more likely to be regarded as highly successful and sensitivity in selection of media by relating the medium to the message would seem to relate quite closely to erm y'know high performance as a manager Let's have a look at |
| 10 | His work demonstrates that an older person was much more likely to be taken into the household of a relative if they were able to contribute something in return , for example doing domestic work , or looking after children while their mother went out to a job . |
| 11 | Like the effect of programme scheduling on TV audience sizes , a story put on the front page was much more likely to be read than something buried inside , and ‘ page traffic ’ figures show slightly higher noting of items on right-hand than left-hand pages . |
| 12 | It was much too obsessive to be erotic . |