Example sentences of "'s more [adj] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tell myself that , anyhow , at my age it 's more fitting to be self-possessed and reasonable . ’ |
| 2 | And when you do n't know where you 're coming from , it 's more difficult to be clear about where you 're going . |
| 3 | It 's more likely to be one of the ‘ disobedient ’ and sometimes risky things that youngster do . |
| 4 | If you 're not sure if you ca n't remember try C because it 's more likely to be right so you 're going to get more marks Oh he 's got this right and they wo n't be putting careless on it they 'll say Oh he knows what he 's doing here . |
| 5 | But if you did genuinely make that statement it 's more likely to be true if it 's against your interest , rather than for your interest . |
| 6 | it 's more likely to be ten ten per cent . |
| 7 | It 's more likely to be valuable as a check on identity , if we ever find anyone whose teeth they might have been . |
| 8 | Particularly appealing are two of the duets ; that between Gontran and the tutor ( almost a ‘ patter ’ duo ) , as Pausanius lists the improbable subjects which he has taught his pupil ( like metallurgy and hydrotherapy ! ) ; and the second one , a sweeping waltz between Gontran and Hélène , as they discover that it 's more fun to be two in a storm than all alone . |
| 9 | I think it 's more productive to be polite , ’ ) whose primary aim was to secure the future of the rainforest in an area stretching from the Heath Sanctuary on the Bolivian border up to and including Manu and the Tambopata Reserves : an area of one and a half million hectares , the size of Switzerland . |