Example sentences of "[was/were] more [adj] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Authority were more likely to listen to them than to the DoH . ’ |
| 2 | I said that asymmetric arms races were more likely to lead to interesting progressive improvements than symmetric ones , and we can now see why this is , using human weapons to illustrate the point . |
| 3 | Although kin might be an important source of practical help once the marriage had actually ended , people who were undergoing marital difficulties were more likely to turn to someone they considered an ‘ outsider ’ for emotional support or guidance . |
| 4 | Louis , count of Flanders , was pro-French ; his subjects , however , dominated by the great cloth-weaving towns of Bruges , Ghent , and Ypres were more likely to turn to England , the source of the wool upon which their industry and wealth depended . |
| 5 | Similarly , he felt that part-time tutors were more likely to respond to advice from a professional tutor than from someone not involved on the teaching side . |
| 6 | We suspect that temporary worker users were more likely to respond to such a survey and that its findings might be an over-estimate [ see Chapter 1 ] . |
| 7 | Showmen knew that middle-class critics had to be bought off and that topicality could sell films to certain audiences but they also appreciated that audiences were more likely to go to the movies for spectacle , for adventure , for comedy , for sex , to see particular stars , and to be entertained in the widest sense . |
| 8 | Their children were more likely to refer to rules . |
| 9 | The training officer group were more likely to refer to joint or group decisions , none of them specifically mentioned the need for central approval , few mentioned relevancy to post as being essential ( or if they did it was within a wider framework of reference than relevance to post alone ) , and they were more likely to specify that the needs of the service and the needs of the individual were both taken into account . |
| 10 | At the same time I thought how few people , apart from Eliot , could have sat and telephoned from that desk : meanwhile , reflecting that it were more proper to appear to be contemplating the exterior than to be glancing at Eliot 's papers scattered in front of me . |
| 11 | The British hoped that the Turks would restore order and break the nationalist movement ; the French were more ready to come to terms with its leaders . |
| 12 | It had been recognized that Liberals had been more adept at handling the press because they were more ready to stoop to newspaper practices , as Sandars had reported in 1909 : |
| 13 | Clergy who remained untouched by the ‘ enthusiasm ’ of the Evangelicals were more inclined to adhere to the authoritative opinion of another Irish Bishop , Jeremy Taylor , the seventeenth century Bishop of Down , who had written : |
| 14 | We were married at home , and one of the reasons why is because we bought a very old house about three years ago and on the top floor it has a , a large room which used to be the ballroom , and we did a little research and we found that the last wedding that we know of in the house took place in seventeen fifty eight , when apparently it was very common in Scotland to get married at home , it was more uncommon to go to church . |
| 15 | On African issues he was more willing to listen to British views , helped by the fact that there was not the same fear of imminent communist penetration , nor were American interests so pressing . |
| 16 | I thought it was more sensible to walk to the library rather than go in the car cos |
| 17 | Although very pale on the Monday , like many of your sons and daughters now , she decided it was more important to go to school to sit her mock G C S Es . |
| 18 | It seems clear that the Crown had greater powers of nomination in the more newly established institutions , that within all departments it was more likely to nominate to the most recently created offices , and that it was trying , with some measure of success , to extend its powers . |