Example sentences of "[coord] it is more [adj] that " in BNC.
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1 | There was , however , a senior general , Catroux , representing the Free French in Egypt at the time , and it is more probable that it was he who interviewed Stirling . |
2 | In the Tønder example , however , the vugs occur in the subsurface on top of a salt dome , with thick units of halite above and below , and it is more probable that they were formed by the same late-leaching process that was responsible for the intercrystalline porosity ( Clark 1980a ) . |
3 | Although the itching may be due to the movement of the louse over the skin , it only moves a maximum of six inches per day , and it is more likely that an allergic reaction is set up to the lice themselves or to their faeces . |
4 | Such an amendment might well be needed , but it is more important that we get the European eco-labelling scheme up and running . |
5 | On game farms , therapy with levamisole in the drinking water has proved useful , but it is more important that pens should be moved regularly to prevent the accumulation of larvae . |
6 | But it is more likely that Treasury officials are just sounding out reaction to possible measures . |
7 | But it is more likely that a physical restraint influenced the swirling liquids — just as bad weather cyclones and hurricanes are anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise south of the equator of spinning planet Earth . |
8 | But it is more likely that , while they provide reasons for different things , they share the same basic structure . |
9 | Gandhi 's antipathy to preaching , which was characteristic of the Christian missionary activity he was acquainted with , may have derived from his attitude to mission work in general , but it is more likely that he considered a man 's life to be a more effective testimony to the truth of his religion that his words . |
10 | It may be ‘ accidental that there is no Beaverbrook or Rothermere ’ but it is more likely that they would encounter an enormous backlash if they trespassed into the formal world of politics . |
11 | The Pauline Annalist reported a rumour that Arundel confessed to having plotted the death of the queen , but it is more likely that Mortimer saw him as a territorial rival in the Marches of Wales , where he had held the lordship of Chirk since the confiscations after Boroughbridge . |
12 | In certain cases , we may advance the total cost of the car , but it is more likely that we will want you to make a contribution . |
13 | A set of criteria might be given as a list , but it is more likely that at least some of the relationships between individual criteria will be indicated . |
14 | In some circumstances one might seek a maximally parallel version of a program , but it is more likely that one will be attempting to optimise it for a particular configuration . |
15 | Such slivers may be an accurate representation of the true situation but it is more likely that they are the result of inaccurate digitization , imprecise surveying , or the use of maps of considerably different scale . |
16 | Whether or not political or administrative accountability is the more desirable depends upon one 's view about the relationships that should exist between State and society , but it is more likely that where decisions are made by political appointees there is greater uncertainty , for such decisions then embody both a political and an economic dimension . |
17 | ‘ In the short run , it is possible that inflation will exceed the top of the target range during calendar 1993 , but it is more likely that inflation will remain in the 3 per cent to 4 per cent range in the absence of any unexpected shocks , ’ the report said . |