Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [adv] [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the study ( Levinger & Clark , 1961 ) emotional words were shown to produce higher fluctuations in galvanic skin response ( GSR ) than non-emotional ones , free-associates produced to these words were less likely to be subsequently recalled than associates of non-emotional words produced at the same time . |
| 2 | It does appear that the non-enrollers were more likely to be affected by personal circumstances than the migrants . |
| 3 | Within a diocese charity schools were more likely to be found near the cathedral city than in outlying regions . |
| 4 | As Milton was later to recognise , fit Renaissance readers were also likely to be few . |
| 5 | For instance it might be suggested that action sample clients were less likely to be admitted straight away to long-term institutional care than control sample clients , for service-providers might have felt that with the Home Support Project such clients could be sustained at home whereas in its absence in the control areas they were not sustainable . |
| 6 | Candidates were not obliged to be Communist Party ( PCC ) members , but the vast majority of candidates were . |
| 7 | More than likely the explanation for such results lay simply in the fact that the elderly , institutionalized patients who formed Cameron 's subjects were so pleased to be noticed and made a fuss of in experiments of this sort that their memories improved as a consequence . |
| 8 | However , children from unhappy , disrupted or deprived homes were most likely to be damaged by the experience . |
| 9 | Both the 1985 GHS ( Green , 1988 ) and McLaughlin 's ( 1991 ) study of the invalid care allowance ( ICA ) found that women who had ceased to care within the previous twelve months were less likely to be in employment than their non-carer peers . |
| 10 | My parents were too poor to be able to give one another a birthday present each year , though there was always a present for each of us four children , Stanley , Laura , Edith and myself . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In fact , the defendants were more likely to be insured on an all risks policy for council employees . |
| 13 | was imposed on the defendant client existed between the defendants were therefore liable to be taught . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Recognising a more serious problem in the fact that Pippin II remained at large in Aquitaine , Charles moved across the Loire , this time penetrating much further than before into the south-west , where Pippin 's adherents were evidently still to be found . |
| 16 | Flies were too expensive to be discarded lightly . |
| 17 | A number of indicators suggested that where activity levels were declining temporary workers were less likely to be used . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | There was a general assumption that traditional rights of all kinds were too fundamental to be overridden by a mere change in formal political allegiance . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | No suggestion was made that non-litigation costs were not amenable to being quantified by taxation . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | When the question of union was next raised , therefore , the interests of the great powers were again likely to be involved . |
| 26 | The dark powers were too strong to be overcome . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The canapes were under tin-foil to be produced later , the Assistant Manager paced the floor decorating the Office with leaflets , as if by some quirk of fate this evening might well be the making of his career . |
| 29 | Nor , at least for the manufacturing sector where the argument would seem most relevant , was there any evidence that more capital intensive establishments were less likely to be making use of such workers . |
| 30 | 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 . |