Example sentences of "be much [adv] [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the supermarket packs of food are seldom in single-portion size but are much more likely to be in family economy packs . |
| 2 | Those with orange eyes are much more likely to be able to hear . |
| 3 | The rabbits are much more likely to be below ground after a snowfall , since they become very much more vulnerable on the surface with their cover blotted out and their feeding areas restricted . |
| 4 | You will also have to be prepared to overlook sudden flashes of anger or periods of irritability which may seem to be aimed at you but which are much more likely to be an expression of her natural resentment of the disaster that has befallen her . |
| 5 | However , single-person households with , for example , an income consisting only of a single person 's state pension are much more likely to be found in the older age groups than in the younger ones . |
| 6 | She is able to show that both women and men are much more likely to be living with relatives after a marriage has ended than during it . |
| 7 | Even where there is an apparent choice between a male and female relative , women are much more likely to be carers — daughters and even daughters-in-law rather than sons ( Henwood and Wicks , 1985 ; Parker , 1985 ; Ungerson , 1987 ) . |
| 8 | Management is on much stronger ground in doing so , and the results are much more likely to be fair . |
| 9 | As we shall see in Chapter 11 on deviance , the activities of groups with fewer power resources are much more likely to be labelled as ‘ social problems ’ and be given greater publicity than are those of the more dominant social groups in society . |
| 10 | Further , they are much more likely to be engaged in part-time work , or homeworking . |
| 11 | But those who stay only for short periods of weeks or months are much more likely to be suffering from serious mental disorder than long term residents . |
| 12 | Women , because of the nurturing and caring roles allocated to them , the responsibility they are given for the well-being and happiness of children and of men , are much more likely to be taught the value of submitting to one 's fate and considering the needs of others before their own . |
| 13 | At 16 they are more likely to be studying at school ; by 18 they are much more likely to be studying at an establishment of further or higher education . |
| 14 | Of course , these are not the abilities which we pride ourselves upon , and we are much more likely to be impressed by the few things which computers do well which we do badly . |
| 15 | By contrast , plosives are much more likely to be found in male endings ( David , Dick , Jock ) . |
| 16 | Well the evidence is that they will erm much more likely to be in poverty , much more likely to suffer ill-health , their children are much more likely to be erm to have childhood diseases . |
| 17 | ‘ You are much too nice to be a politician . ’ |
| 18 | When your notes are growing in volume they are much too valuable to be carried around and perhaps lost . |
| 19 | Whatever we may think of their evocative names , ‘ Queen Elizabeth ’ and ‘ Peace ’ are much too boisterous to be given room in genteel society . |
| 20 | They are much less likely to be using mail order . |
| 21 | Because they live longer , women over 65 are much less likely to be living with their spouse than men of a similar age . |
| 22 | Semi-skilled and unskilled workers are much less likely to be able to buy their own house ( 26 per cent of unskilled workers are owner-occupiers , compared with 87 per cent of professional workers ) . |
| 23 | Non-words can not be read aloud at all ; abstract words like truth or equality are much less likely to be read aloud correctly than concrete words like blood or cathedral ; visual errors such as reading bush as ‘ brush ’ or forge as ‘ ford ’ occur ; function words , and the prefixes and suffixes on affixed words , cause particular difficulties . |
| 24 | They 're much more likely to be acting out of self interest . |
| 25 | You 're much too young to be thinking about boys , when I was your age I went around in a big friendly group , plenty of time for all that later on . |
| 26 | If you do lose those links then you 're much less likely to be able to find a job in the future because still most jobs are actually found through personal contacts of one sort or another . |
| 27 | While other chaps sing the praises of Meryl Streep , Joely Richardson or Gabriela Sabatini , I 'm much more likely to be found getting worked up over worms . |
| 28 | On the other hand , there were much more likely to be single children still living at home . |
| 29 | Several studies have shown that crabs in shells which were too small for them were much more likely to be eaten by predators . |
| 30 | 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 . |