Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [is] more [adj] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Campra , whose expressed aim was to combine French musical expression with Italian liveliness , was perhaps copying the acknowledged pioneer of the French cantata , Jean-Baptiste Morin : four of the 12 works in Morin 's first two collections ( 1706,1707 ) introduce only a change of mode from air to air by way of contrast , and in the others the only secondary keys used in principal movements are the relative , IV and V. But as Morin was an otherwise obscure figure it is more likely that Campra was pursuing his own ideals , themselves anchored in Lullian tradition . |
| 2 | It has been suggested that now that unions ( and not merely officials ) may in certain circumstances be liable in damages for unlawful industrial action it is more likely that an employer will pursue his claim to a full trial and there is less reason to refuse an interlocutory injunction in trade dispute cases ; but it has also been said that the ‘ right to strike ’ is a valuable ( indeed essential ) element in the system of collective bargaining and that it ‘ should not be rendered less valuable than Parliament intended by too fanciful or ingenious a view of what might develop into a serious issue to be tried . ’ |
| 3 | As a strongly international business it is more appropriate that it appears beside the Big Four rather than with the British consultancies . |
| 4 | Of course it is more likely that women rather than men would be in a position to offer such assistance ( Anderson , 1971 , pp. 139–44 ) . |
| 5 | We would suggest that in neuropathic pseudoobstruction it is more likely that the tachygastria is induced by loss of intrinsic inhibitory innervation which may normally modify the frequency of polarisation of the plasmalemmal membrane of the gastric smooth muscle cells . |
| 6 | Both these relationships are of course what might have been predicted a priori , in fact it is more surprising that they did not appear in the Groeger and Chapman study than that they do in this one . |