Example sentences of "[am/are] more [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were an awful lot of nice people working in the building , but there is sometimes a certain tone in your voice , a clouded look in your eye , which gives the impression that you 're more likely to be a client than a colleague . |
| 2 | If you are very close and the danger shows in your photos they 're more likely to be used . |
| 3 | And you 're more likely to be accepted by your peers . |
| 4 | ‘ I was discussing a statistic I 'd heard that you 're more likely to be killed by a donkey than in an aeroplane disaster . |
| 5 | I reckon they 're more likely to be friendly than otherwise . |
| 6 | And , we 've seen through their advertising in targeting women that they 've tried to post the image if you smoke , you 're more likely to be slim and slender . |
| 7 | The chances are you 're more likely to be involved in something . |
| 8 | They 're more likely to be found at Lansdowne Road ( another recent issue in your letters page ) . |
| 9 | So we 've tried to set the duty at a level which makes it clear to those who seek to commit financial crime that they 're more likely to be caught but which does not impose additional reporting burdens or costs on those who conduct their business honestly and that is a most important balance to strike . |
| 10 | you 're more likely to be |
| 11 | The only thing is in a place like that they 're more likely to be Tory . |
| 12 | It may be that tougher-looking delinquents are more liable to be put away than fragile looking ones . |
| 13 | 5 Australians are more fun to be with than Canadians . |
| 14 | Yet older people tend to occupy the oldest , poorest housing and are more likely to be private tenants than other groups . |
| 15 | Workers under 35 years are the worst oversleepers , but overall women are more likely to be late than men , the survey found . |
| 16 | Businessmen and women in the North-west and Midlands are more likely to be early than their counterparts in London despite the fact that traffic is apparently not a significantly bigger problem . |
| 17 | In 19 out of the 24 subjects in the table ( right ) , their graduates are more likely to be unemployed or to be in short-term employment only . |
| 18 | The distinction is useful because companies that seize an opportunity in markets outside their domestic base are more likely to be successful than those that react in response to an external factor . |
| 19 | How could you show that this was not because chocolate bars , sweets , etc. , are more likely to be eaten since your depression means that you can not be bothered to cook a proper meal ? |
| 20 | Luckily they are more likely to be used to collect the used parachutes scattered across the DZ . |
| 21 | The advantage of employing a specialist firm is that its tradesmen are more likely to be well trained and experienced in this field of building preservation , with a thorough and successful job being a more certain result . |
| 22 | Should England come second they would then go to Genoa to play the runners-up from Group B , who are more likely to be Argentina or the Soviet Union than Romania or Cameroun , although this does look the toughest , tightest group of all . |
| 23 | He meant by this that people are more likely to be convinced of the reality of the faith if our expression of it is coherent , sensible and entire . |
| 24 | Horses of the same family or the same breed are more likely to be empathic , and so to get on together the best . |
| 25 | The horse 's reactions to its environment are more likely to be consistent , reasonable , judicious , moderate , and practical . |
| 26 | For instance , some sites in Roman Britain have a much greater proportion of third-than of fourth-century coins compared to other sites , and it has been observed that the former tend to be the prestigious settlements of old Roman veteran colonies or tribal capitals , whereas the latter are more likely to be smaller rural sites such as farms , forts or villages . |
| 27 | Newspapers do develop the discussion in much more detail , but people are more likely to be turned off by newspapers than |
| 28 | The received wisdom is that such people are more likely to be Labour supporters , but their ‘ disappearance ’ also makes it harder to lend them money . |
| 29 | Another is that if resident farmers are to undertake the planting , management and felling of forests , surpluses accrue and are more likely to be reinvested locally . |
| 30 | Not only is the social distance between service providers and clients reduced but service practices are more likely to be adapted to local needs when paraprofessionals are employed in front-line service roles . |