Example sentences of "[noun] more [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speeches after the ceremony ( although best man/ bride 's father not essential ; speeches more likely to be made by bride and groom themselves — they 're old enough , after all ) . |
| 2 | For instance past spending behaviour is always likely to be a factor in practice , with departments which have been reliable spenders more likely to be given funds than those who have been allocated money but not spent it . |
| 3 | Prisoners who do not of necessity have to be detained for the protection of the public are in some cases more likely to be made into decent citizens if , before completing the whole of their sentence , they are released under supervision with a liability to recall if they do not behave . |
| 4 | A sociology graduate , whether from a university or polytechnic , is 10 times more likely to be unemployed or in short-term employment than a building , pharmacy or civil engineering graduate . |
| 5 | Suicide was the biggest cause of death , but the homeless are also 150 times more likely to be killed in an assault . |
| 6 | By 17 years of age the children of obese parents are three times more likely to be obese than children of thin parents . |
| 7 | An inquiry into the referral and suspension of Afro-Caribbean pupils from Birmingham schools recorded that they were almost four times more likely to be suspended from secondary schools as white pupils ; even when the main reason for expulsion was common to both white and black pupils , the latter were more likely to be suspended and the inquiry alluded to a considerable level of hostility , mistrust and ‘ cultural misunderstanding ’ as between black pupils and white teachers ( CRE , 1985 ; see also Driver , 1979 ) . |
| 8 | Heavy cigarette smokers ( up to 50 pack-years ) were 4.7 times more likely to be wrinkled than nonsmokers . |
| 9 | Even in the professional/vocational group , librarians were four times more likely to be unemployed than architects . |
| 10 | In 1983 , for example , men working full time were three times more likely to be covered than were men working part time . |
| 11 | As a result , an accused person in Dorset ( for example ) is 10 times more likely to be remanded in custody than a similar person in Bedfordshire . |
| 12 | Conversely , the reverse pattern was found for single women who had given birth who were five times more likely to be local authority tenants rather than owner-occupiers . |
| 13 | Young females are 18 times more likely to be sexually assaulted than those over 45 . |
| 14 | Class shows itself in the fact that women who are council tenants are three times more likely to be sexually assaulted , than those who are owner-occupiers . |
| 15 | Here , motorists are now three times more likely to be breathalysed than in 1978 , and around 2,000 drivers are prosecuted every week . |
| 16 | Specialists were three times more likely to be continuing their studies , mainly registering for PhD higher degrees . |
| 17 | As a result in some parts of the country you 're three times more likely to be cautioned than in others . |
| 18 | A few years ago , a Government publication entitled ’ Practical Ways to Crack Crime ’ stated : ’ A stolen car is about 200 times more likely to be involved in an accident than the same car driven by its owner . ’ |
| 19 | A stolen car is 200 times more likely to be involved in an accident than one driven by its owner . |
| 20 | So we are 60 times more likely to be struck by lightning than to die from salmonella ! |
| 21 | A report prepared by the Australian Institute of Criminology published on Oct. 23 , 1989 , showed that an Aboriginal was 28 times more likely to be sent to prison than a white person . |
| 22 | The last similar study , published in 1982 , had indicated that Aboriginals were 14 times more likely to be imprisoned than non-Aboriginals . |
| 23 | Following the loss of their mother by separation or death , those children who experienced either marked indifference or markedly low control from their fathers or substitute parents were three times more likely to be depressed when interviewed in adulthood than women with no such experiences ( Brown et al. , 1986b ) . |
| 24 | MERSEYSIDE youngsters are 100 times more likely to be injured by fireworks than the government admits , according to a report published today . |
| 25 | Figures alone colleagues can not show the misery of redundancy and unemployment , people who have been made redundant are thirty times to , more likely to commit suicide than those in work and time ten times more likely to be seriously ill . |
| 26 | Their range of social contacts was wider , friends and relatives more likely to be geographically distant . |
| 27 | Not only is the purpose for which the consumer buys consumer goods more likely to be known to the seller ( particularly by implication ) but it is far more likely that the consumer will rely on the seller 's judgment and skill . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , Sir , there are some things more fit to be looked at than others ; for instance , there is nothing more fit to be looked at than the outside of a book … |
| 29 | render underprivileged and powerless people more likely to be arrested , convicted , and sentenced to prison , even though the amount of personal damage and injury they cause may be less than the more powerful and privileged cause ; |
| 30 | The point of strengthening the UN forces would be to make them more likely to frustrate the aims of the besiegers ; more likely to frustrate means more likely to be shot at . |