Example sentences of "and less [adj] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a start , opponents he had skinned last season were wiser men second time around and less prone to be dismantled by the quickest feet in the Premier League . |
| 2 | Women could reveal the laws of nature , if ( male ) science developed the tools to understand her ; women , being natural , were the source of terrible passions , and less able to be tempered by reason . |
| 3 | I would prefer an analogue contents display because it is more eye-catching and less likely to be misread . |
| 4 | Although modern research has pointed out that women 's paid employment is underestimated by the available records ( in particular the census ) , since it was more irregular and less likely to be recorded than that of men , women 's choice of work was certainly in practice severely restricted , first and most crucially by what was effectively segregation by sex , secondly by local opportunities . |
| 5 | That is to say , it still remains the case that men of all social origins have become more likely to be found in service-class positions and less likely to be found in working-class ones . |
| 6 | Black juveniles are more likely to be prosecuted and less likely to be cautioned than white juveniles . |
| 7 | Black youth were more likely to be prosecuted and less likely to be cautioned than white youth . |
| 8 | Such families are also more likely to have dangerous forms of heating , and less likely to be insured against damage by fire . |
| 9 | Finally , the gas cylinder , designed to withstand extreme pressure , is much stronger and less likely to be ruptured in an accident than conventional fuel tanks . |
| 10 | If they could be spaced out a bit , then it would probably be easier and less likely to be trouble . |
| 11 | It is more likely that the types of crime committed by older people will be less noticed and less liable to be recorded in the criminal statistics . |