Example sentences of "be more [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If your fill is also a bit dodgy you 're more susceptible to CO poisoning , with the risk of blacking out underwater . |
| 2 | She said , ‘ Oliver loves his tortoises , Like I love Mo , only they 're more real to him than Mo is to me . |
| 3 | Fortunately , we 're more alive to the dangers inherent in the bruising of delicate psyches . |
| 4 | NB If you 're more used to working with computers , you 'll find that there 's a wide choice of basic payroll software available . |
| 5 | The best thing to do with that are you you 're more used to erm You 're more used to opposite over adjacent and things like that are n't you . |
| 6 | The best thing to do with that are you you 're more used to erm You 're more used to opposite over adjacent and things like that are n't you . |
| 7 | I only meant you 're more used to it . ’ |
| 8 | You do n't have anywhere to wash your clothes or even yourself sometimes , so you 're dirty and your clothes are dirty and you 're not eating properly so you 're more liable to illness and this sort of thing , so that you 're not likely to keep a job even if you get it , and you ca n't get accommodation without a deposit , and so you need several hundred pounds in order to get accommodation . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | If you are very close and the danger shows in your photos they 're more likely to be used . |
| 11 | And you 're more likely to be accepted by your peers . |
| 12 | ‘ I was discussing a statistic I 'd heard that you 're more likely to be killed by a donkey than in an aeroplane disaster . |
| 13 | I reckon they 're more likely to be friendly than otherwise . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The chances are you 're more likely to be involved in something . |
| 16 | They 're more likely to be found at Lansdowne Road ( another recent issue in your letters page ) . |
| 17 | Erm , if all your friends take drugs then you 're more likely to erm , take them and it 's harder |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | you 're more likely to be |
| 20 | The only thing is in a place like that they 're more likely to be Tory . |
| 21 | THE DOCTOR : We 're more accustomed to Arabs and Jews , or whites and blacks , as being enemies . |
| 22 | ‘ Adam , if you 'd be good enough to finish what you 're doing , perhaps you could take this weapon from me , since I 'm sure you 're more accustomed to guns than I am . ’ |
| 23 | It is likely that Pak would have been more amenable to the Russians than Kim but Kim was the tougher of the two and had the opportunities , which he fully exploited . |
| 24 | Soviet leaders may have been more amenable to a plan for negotiations on Afghanistan developed in France , which did not incorporate the neutralisation element of the EEC scheme . |
| 25 | ‘ Suzie 's always been more amenable to advice from men than she has from her own sex . |
| 26 | Feminist issues , in particular sexual harrassment , abortion and the role of women in politics , have been more central to this election campaign than in any previous one . |
| 27 | I could n't have been more grateful to our Zanskari friends that day for guiding us safely out of a rock and ice-water trap . |
| 28 | The illusion persisted that the British might have succeeded if their diplomacy had been more sensitive and subtle , and if Macmillan himself had been more alive to the timing of the presidential election . |
| 29 | On the whole she has been more attentive to the requirements of the arts of self-presentation and the requirements of the mass media and public relations than other leaders like Heath , Callaghan , and Foot . |
| 30 | This short book might have been more accessible to the lay reader and perhaps generally clearer had it included some extra detail or more specific examples . |