Example sentences of "are more [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be that tougher-looking delinquents are more liable to be put away than fragile looking ones . |
| 2 | 5 Australians are more fun to be with than Canadians . |
| 3 | Yet older people tend to occupy the oldest , poorest housing and are more likely to be private tenants than other groups . |
| 4 | Workers under 35 years are the worst oversleepers , but overall women are more likely to be late than men , the survey found . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | Luckily they are more likely to be used to collect the used parachutes scattered across the DZ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Horses of the same family or the same breed are more likely to be empathic , and so to get on together the best . |
| 14 | The horse 's reactions to its environment are more likely to be consistent , reasonable , judicious , moderate , and practical . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Newspapers do develop the discussion in much more detail , but people are more likely to be turned off by newspapers than |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In countries where the non-metropolitan population is farm-based , such as Bolivia , migrants to the capital city are more likely to be rural ( Simmons , Diaz-Briquets and Laquia 1977 ) . |
| 21 | Lone parent families are more likely to be living in poverty than two parent families . |
| 22 | Older children are more likely to be living with step-parents ; 5% of under fives lived with step-parents in 1985 , compared with 12% of those aged 10–15 . |
| 23 | The 1988 British Social Attitudes Survey found that traditional female tasks such as cooking and cleaning are more likely to be shared equally when the woman works full-time . |
| 24 | Men are less likely in future to spend old age with their spouse , while women are more likely to be married . |
| 25 | Dirty conditions are more likely to be the result of management activities , or the lack of them , and the emphasis on ‘ trouble shooting ’ should reflect this . |
| 26 | Both women and men have a surge of testosterone in the early morning , but as women have a lower level to surge to , they are more likely to be overwhelmed by thoughts like ‘ What 's for breakfast ? ’ or ‘ Did I ring the plumber ? ’ than by passion . |
| 27 | They are more likely to be stopped and searched , and to be the victim of mistaken arrest or conviction . |
| 28 | Many of the indicators chosen are suspect , as Macnicol has shown for earlier periods , in that they simply count contact with state agencies , and it is a commonplace observation that the poor are more likely to be in contact with social workers because they are poor ( Becker , 1988 ) ; young drug-takers in inner cities are more visible than wealthy socialites but drug-taking and drinking stretch across social groups ( O'Bryan , 1989 ; Plant , 1989 ) ; desertion of women by husbands and the choice to remain unmarried are not restricted to the poor ; and so on and so on . |
| 29 | After all , if you have begun addressing yourself for the first time to such an issue you are more likely to be able to have the courage of your convictions at work in trying to tackle , for example , management by inertia . |
| 30 | Pocket-sized books are more likely to be stolen . |