Example sentences of "[is] more [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 31 | Babies can start at six months , but it is more likely to be 12–18 months . |
| 32 | If a lavatory seat is to be responsible then it is more likely to be the male who suffers . |
| 33 | For the same reasons that the female is more likely to acquire infection in the throat than her male sexual partner , the homosexual male who practises oral sex is more likely to be infected in the throat than his heterosexual equivalent . |
| 34 | Any librarian involved in the selection of material is also constantly in touch with readers , so that an over-theoretical approach based merely upon the bibliographical and logistic aspects of provision is more likely to be avoided . |
| 35 | how long the employment was going to last in the absence of sickness ( a short-term contract is more likely to be frustrated than a job expected to last for the foreseeable future ) ; |
| 36 | In such a setting , too , conversation is more likely to be encouraged if the furniture is so arranged that the interviewee and the interviewer are not physically separated by a desk ; that the chairs are reasonably comfortable and in a position to allow eye contact ; and that there are no unplanned interruptions . |
| 37 | For example , lower working-class people are more likely to be mesomorphic as a result of their diet and continual manual labour , and this class grouping is more likely to be found represented in the criminal statistics . |
| 38 | To take a somewhat simplistic example , stealing low-priced goods from shops is more likely to be reported than stealing goods of equal value from one 's place of work . |
| 39 | The boxer hero is more likely to be a nasty thug who glares at his opponent at the weigh-in and acts like Mr Nasty . |
| 40 | Opposition to development from lower income groups is more likely to be motivated by anger at the focus on up-market housing than by a desire to preserve a golden past which they are well aware has never existed . |
| 41 | True , the local history researcher is more likely to be pursuing investigations through source materials provided by Anglo-Saxon charters , medieval rolls , maps , land grants , muster documents and the like , but the uses of heraldry are not to be despised in the processes of rounding out historical themes . |
| 42 | The biographer , therefore , is likely to work on people of some fame , whatever their spheres of activity may be , and so the biography is more likely to be about the famous ( or notorious ) person , the outstanding success or the eye-catching , unusual personality . |
| 43 | A ten-year age-group is more likely to be useful , but the actual category limits should be carefully thought about . |
| 44 | A deficit of isolated teeth may indicate preferential loss of teeth , but in most cases it is more likely to be due to sampling error , by the failure to extract all the teeth from the pellets . |
| 45 | The latter alternative is preferable since it is more likely to be seen as constructive and thus win support ( see Building on page 25 ) . |
| 46 | If you are told that someone ‘ had seen what has happened ’ , that person is more likely to be having questions addressed to them than to be posing questions themselves . |
| 47 | If the behaviour brings about pleasant or rewarding consequences , it is more likely to be repeated . |
| 48 | There is more likely to be a gradual wearing down of viral disease , with a wide variety of drugs becoming increasingly effective against specific types of virus . |
| 49 | Used as I am , of course , to drinking from glittering crystal , I admit that for everyday use it is more likely to be the ordinary glass you buy from Woolies or Habitat — sensible , cheap , and reasonably designed . |
| 50 | Tuttle , by maintaining that the Laetoli prints are closer to Homo than the Hadar foot bones , and that different species were involved , is falling very much into the Leakey camp which believes that the earliest ’ true man ’ is more likely to be found in Tanzania than in Ethiopia , and that A afarensis is no more than a sub-branch of evolution . |
| 51 | When approached by a predator , the tail attracts all the attention and is more likely to be attacked — the vulnerable head is thus spared damage . |
| 52 | An unhappy marriage is more likely to be explained in terms of current stresses than in relation to what has gone on long before . |
| 53 | The pressure is more likely to be felt by women than men , and increases as individuals grow older . |
| 54 | This may be because low staff turnover creates less need for induction and job training and more need for development training or it may be that job training is more likely to be taken for granted . |
| 55 | Communications remain important though the talk now is more likely to be of the high speed 1990s and the proposed link between the M1 and M62 or the rail freight link from ‘ Port Wakefield , ’ via the Channel Tunnel to the continent . |
| 56 | Whilst it would be easy to exaggerate the importance of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms , its significance is more likely to be underestimated rather than overestimated . |
| 57 | The BC109C was selected as it claims to have a spread from 380 to 800 at 2mA and is more likely to be within the spec we require . |
| 58 | The famed croaking is more likely to be heard in such tanks , as it 's at its most audible when males meet and display as a threat to other intruding males — or during the mating season as the male pursues the female . |
| 59 | If it is more likely to be fourteen , ask : ‘ Did you say one-four ? ’ |
| 60 | The reason is more likely to be that they only fly in ideal wind conditions . |