Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In line with what we had expected was the finding that establishments where the level of output , the amount of overtime being worked and the number of persons employed was falling were rather less likely to be using fixed-term contract workers . |
| 2 | Students who had studied IT at a polytechnic were rather less likely to be In employment or to be continuing their studies than their university peers , and more likely to be looking for employment ( Table 4.2 ) . |
| 3 | They thus occupy a rather special place in the spectrum of infectious human disease , since , without being able to find the germ responsible , it is not only rather difficult to be sure that the disease is present in the first place , but , having given a treatment for which there can be no de finite evidence of efficacy , since no organism has been eliminated , it can be very difficult to tell whether the infection has resolved or even whether the patient is better . |
| 4 | If the patient 's fever took several days to appear then it is much less likely to be Belladonna no matter how much the rest of the picture looks like it . |
| 5 | They are much less likely to be using mail order . |
| 6 | What is much less likely to be recognized is the importance of considering the interrelationship between these various initiatives , and certainly there is no sign as yet that such an evaluation is to take place . |
| 7 | Grandchildren do not appear on Qureshi and Simons 's ( 1987 ) hierarchy of preferred carers , indicating that they are very much a minority group subsumed under ‘ other relatives ’ and therefore much less likely to be providing personal care than their parents ' generation . |
| 8 | Involuntary discharges through bankruptcy are though much less likely to be significant in larger firms where labour turnover is much more related to age . |
| 9 | Because they live longer , women over 65 are much less likely to be living with their spouse than men of a similar age . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This is much less likely to be a problem in numerical work , which is therefore particularly important for studies of regimes inaccessible in the laboratory ( e.g. convection in conditions where non-Boussinesq effects — see the Appendix to Chapter 14 — are significant , perhaps in connection with an application such as solar granulation , Section 26.6 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A harem travelling with others is not only less likely to be the one attacked but , at least at the onset of the bachelors ' approach , the male can count on the participation of other harem males in ‘ yelping chases ’ that deter the attackers . |
| 15 | Problems with planning and programming , delays in delivery of materials or plant , and double handling , are all less likely to be identified . |
| 16 | If , indeed , more than one craftsman was responsible , it is only just possible to be sure of areas where relevant contrasts occur . |
| 17 | Goosanders are found on both fresh and salt water , near the coast and well inland , but they are rather rare on the open sea and are perhaps more likely to be seen c-n salt water in very cold weather . |
| 18 | The section , ‘ The family ’ , is perhaps more likely to be explored in terms of an imaginary one — the family in a story or rhyme , or the family of dolls that lives in the doll 's house . |
| 19 | If the Security Council excludes from the new tribunal 's jurisdiction such larger crimes , which are perhaps more likely to be committed by higher state officials , the resulting trials may end up dealing only with the small fry while the big fish get away . |
| 20 | Much more interesting to be a part of the making of it . ’ |
| 21 | If there are problems , le we could work them through together , but I think this is much more interesting to be , sort o I think to be linked in with an outside project like this , and just to be working away in isolation , and so we 'll feel our way experimentally . |
| 22 | He was , therefore , at least until 1938 much more inclined to be hostile to Italy than to Germany . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Giving up smoking together too is much more likely to be successful than if you have to struggle alone . |
| 25 | In the supermarket packs of food are seldom in single-portion size but are much more likely to be in family economy packs . |
| 26 | Both males and females are less likely to be widowed , but much more likely to be divorced . |
| 27 | On the other hand , there were much more likely to be single children still living at home . |
| 28 | That next-door neighbour dabbler you are so concerned about is much more likely to be involved in the ‘ soft-occult ’ , and may still be open to a little reasoning . |
| 29 | Much more likely to be a timber boat . |
| 30 | Or , as is much more likely to be the truth of the matter , evidence of the parents ' fear that they might be depriving the child of some advantage if the ritual is omitted . |