Example sentences of "[noun pl] more [adj] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A comfortable position for writing when work needs to be undertaken at close range is in some respects more difficult to achieve than it is for reading . |
| 2 | Fundamental ergonomics reveal that this makes the keys more comfortable to operate and their printed surfaces easier to identify . |
| 3 | As a general rule , it can be said that those who have experience of flying fixed-wing models will find helicopters more difficult to fly than those who are starting from scratch . |
| 4 | The toxic protection mechanism dovetails with the fact that the pregnancy is three times more likely to miscarry if the mother does not feel sick , an observation supported by the second theory . |
| 5 | SMOKERS using a new daytime nicotine patch to give up the habit are four times more likely to succeed than those who rely on willpower , according to a Gallup survey . |
| 6 | The sequence very steep is ( syntactically ) 1,500 times more likely to occur than very sleep ( from transition frequency counts of the LOB corpus ) . |
| 7 | Example 4 still remains a problem , but it may be that books could be suggested as more likely than boots from semantic co-occurrence information , or from frequency of use from a corpus ( books is five times more likely to occur than boots ) , especially if weighted from a count of occurrence in the script recognised so far . |
| 8 | As shown in table II , seronegative children who had received IPV were 2 to 14 times more likely to seroconvert than those who had received OPV ; seroconversion rates in the IPV group were from 67% to 100% , compared with only 5% to 53% in the OPV group ( p < 0.001 ) . |
| 9 | Its eyes are ten times more sensitive to light than our own and , as they are tuned to the colour of the undersea world , they see a very different view from the one familiar to divers . |
| 10 | The eyes of a toad are eight times more sensitive to light than our own . |
| 11 | Accordingly workers striking on an economic upswing often found employers more ready to negotiate than to prosecute , although if masters decided to combine to take on the union by resisting a wage demand or even enforcing a cut and bound themselves not to employ each other 's dismissed workmen , the law might be a more ready resort . |
| 12 | For one thing , illness renders workers more likely to become and stay unemployed : health problems may be the cause of unemployment rather than vice versa . |
| 13 | This makes bonds more difficult to price than money market instruments . |
| 14 | Everyone in the room seemed to be engaged ; I have seldom seen children more eager to talk and learn and think … . |
| 15 | Are some spouses more likely to stray than others ? |