Example sentences of "it be more [adj] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never has it been more important that News At Ten provide a big prime-time audience . |
| 2 | Remember , it 's more likely that youngsters may turn to drugs if they come from a home where the adults appear to be dependent on legal drugs like tobacco or alcohol . |
| 3 | Rumours have been circulating that they wanted to hold it to tie in with Aliens 3 , although with that still way off in the future , it 's more likely that a full-scale theatrical release of The Special Edition is planned for the distant future . |
| 4 | When parents are faithful to each other , it 's more likely that their children will grow up to be true to each other , too . |
| 5 | I 'm not sure if he went to an established rap school , although it 's more likely that he 's a self-taught man . |
| 6 | Wishful thinking apart , it 's more likely that he 's making the most of a nice soft bed and reasonable food , ’ said Marcus , trying to find a creative way out of the check Pete had put him in . |
| 7 | The decision based on a number of current offspring , larger numbers can be greater benefited with and therefore it 's more likely that if the parent had a lot of er offspring then he would continue with the investment and erm the conclusion from now is that males have a greater reproductive success , therefore they are more likely to desert because they can erm and erm this and erm the basic argument of this is one parent can get away with investing less share of erm resources they 're likely to spend more er then they 're to do it , so in other words erm if , if one of the , of the two is being to get away with having the other they can go out to er pursue their own and therefore erm each partner force the other to invest more . |
| 8 | And it 's more likely that the cloudier west coast will only struggle to ten celcius , that 's fifty farenheit . |
| 9 | So it 's more likely that they 'll make it compulsory . |
| 10 | well it 's more likely that she 's gon na see one of the relatives than him , is n't it ? |
| 11 | I think if anything it 's more likely that what we 'll have at Oxford is some extremely tough women , because these are women who have made their way through the educational system and are tough cookies . |
| 12 | There appear to be no important differences in performance on intelligence tests in the working age range and as the influence of physical effort in work becomes less important so it is more feasible that jobs can be performed equally well by either sex . |
| 13 | There was , however , a senior general , Catroux , representing the Free French in Egypt at the time , and it is more probable that it was he who interviewed Stirling . |
| 14 | In the Tønder example , however , the vugs occur in the subsurface on top of a salt dome , with thick units of halite above and below , and it is more probable that they were formed by the same late-leaching process that was responsible for the intercrystalline porosity ( Clark 1980a ) . |
| 15 | If there is enough to suggest that it is more probable that the offence took place , that is enough for the action that was taken by all the agencies involved in Orkney . |
| 16 | It is more probable that the managers will seek to pursue their own goals rather than subject their decisions to the norm of profit-maximization . |
| 17 | Thereafter he may have been engaged in wholesale dealing in corn and wool , though it is more probable that he continued to lend money under the guise of advancing money against future payment of commodities . |
| 18 | At a later time , it is more probable that the system will be in a disordered state than in an ordered one because there are more disordered states . |
| 19 | It is more probable that in most cases , the relative contributions to the final research of student and supervisor could not easily be separated . |
| 20 | It is more probable that they were cited soon after deposit , but that the coverage of SCI at this time did not extend to those journals in which the citations occurred . |
| 21 | It is more probable that the whole matter lies in the discretion of the court as to the grant of an injunction ( or damages in lieu ) . |
| 22 | Surely it is more essential that she should be well educated , as research has shown the mother 's education to be more important to the child 's own later achievement than the father 's . |
| 23 | As a strongly international business it is more appropriate that it appears beside the Big Four rather than with the British consultancies . |
| 24 | If their view of God is what they say , then it is more surprising that they did not reject it much earlier . |
| 25 | It is more surprising that Bourgchier accepted the role of go-between . |
| 26 | Both these relationships are of course what might have been predicted a priori , in fact it is more surprising that they did not appear in the Groeger and Chapman study than that they do in this one . |
| 27 | It is more surprising that Bourgchier accepted the role of go-between . |
| 28 | But on the contrary , this world of ‘ it was rumoured ’ and ‘ that may well have been so ’ followed at once by ‘ it is more likely that nothing of the sort happened ’ — again in the opening paragraphs — is as exhilarating as the challenge of life 's opacities to a healthy curiosity . |
| 29 | But it is more likely that Treasury officials are just sounding out reaction to possible measures . |
| 30 | But if the British Barlow Clowes operation had been within the licensing net , it is more likely that the Department of Trade would have found out at a much earlier stage that Mr Peter Clowes was running a parallel offshore operation — first in Jersey and then in Gibraltar . |