Example sentences of "[be] at greater risk " in BNC.
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| 1 | The brightly-coloured males may be at greater risk than the dowdy females . |
| 2 | Typically , these are long-term , follow-up investigations of the children of known schizophrenics — and therefore chosen because , on purely genetic grounds , they should be at greater risk . |
| 3 | If tamoxifen exerts antioestrogenic effects on bone women receiving long term treatment may be at greater risk of osteoporotic fracture . |
| 4 | Women were at greater risk with incidence rates for probable Alzheimer 's disease of 28.2 ( 24.5 to 32.4 ) per 100 000 compared with 16.5 ( 13.8 to 19.8 ) per 100 000 for men . |
| 5 | There was evidence , he added , that some children from one-parent families , those exposed to heavy use of alcohol and those who began smoking early were at greater risk from drugs misuse . |
| 6 | If you are one of those patients who are at greater risk from flu , you should try to avoid catching it . |
| 7 | If you are one of those patients who are at greater risk from flu , you should try to avoid catching it . |
| 8 | Wahler has tried to identify in which families these problems are more likely to occur and has suggested that ‘ insular ’ families are at greater risk for producing non-compliant and aggressive children . |
| 9 | Larger families , families with closely spaced children , families with young children , and single-parent families are at greater risk . |
| 10 | Patients requiring intensive care are at greater risk of nosocomial infection not only because their illness is severe but also because many therapeutic interventions actively promote colonisation or disable host defences . |
| 11 | We have already seen in section 5.3 that the employment situation of black people is not nearly as good as that of whites ; they are concentrated in declining and low-wage industries , work unsocial hours for low wages , have poor promotion prospects and are at greater risk of unemployment . |
| 12 | Does he agree that they are at greater risk not from imports but from the minimum wage , which would devastate the knitwear industry ? |
| 13 | Rutter ( 1977 ) has shown that brain-damaged children are at greater risk of psychiatric disorder than undamaged children , possibly due more to abnormal brain activity rather than to a straightforward loss of brain function . |
| 14 | An office worker who has two weeks of intense sunbathing is at greater risk of developing skin cancer than a construction worker labouring outdoors and subjected to longer , but less intense doses of sunlight . |