Example sentences of "less [adj] to [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean probably women are more daring you know because they 've got less to lose in a way I suppose if you if you 're not a councillor you can be more er you know or if you 're not worried for your job or you know or if there is n't a definite structure I suppose in the lodge there 's the definite people that always say the same things you know what I mean and it 's it 's less easy to be spontaneous in that situation I would think you know . |
| 2 | Pre-school children are less likely to be dry by 3 years if they are anxious or depressed . |
| 3 | This policing function is less likely to be present in the case of a monopolist , which does not face direct product market pressure . |
| 4 | In general , the dirtier the receiving watercourse the less likely a discharge is to be defined as polluting , since the pollutant is less likely to have any measurable impact on the stream , less likely to be visible in already dirty water , and less likely to produce any noticeable ill-effects upon already scarce fish , plant , or animal life . |
| 5 | The National Child Development Study report on disadvantaged children identified children from one-parent families with low incomes and poor housing as less likely to be successful at school than other children ( Wedge and Prosser , 1973 ) . |
| 6 | Those young people undertaking YTS at colleges , or on community-based schemes , which were called mode B schemes , were less likely to be successful in entering the labour market when they graduated from their courses ( see the transcript of the BBC TV Panorama programme ‘ Fair play for Britain 's Blacks ’ , 6 July 1987 , p. 3 ) . |
| 7 | The House of Lords is less central to the nation 's affairs , less likely to be controversial in its activities and more courteous in the conduct of its proceedings . |
| 8 | The leadership also has a new control , which makes it less likely to be unhorsed by its own interest-groups than the Callaghan Government was in the late 1970s . |
| 9 | These firms will offer personal services : services that are less likely to be subject to automation . |
| 10 | Families are growing smaller and greater geographical mobility means that relatives are less likely to be close at hand in times of need . |
| 11 | In addition , Stemberger notes that lexical items from the closed class are less likely to be involved in sequencing errors ( in which lexical items occur in the wrong order in an utterance ) and in shift errors ( in which an item appears either too early or too late in an utterance ) . |
| 12 | This project aims to examine whether certain categories of statemented special needs children are more , or less likely to be involved in bully/victim problems within 8 mainstream schools in Sheffield ( 3 junior/middle and 5 secondary ) . |
| 13 | The IS902-PCR results may suggest that M avium subsp silvaticum is less likely to be involved in the pathogenesis of Crohn 's disease but may add to the significance of the IS900-PCR results . |
| 14 | Graduate husbands are less likely to be childless in their marriages than are graduate wives . |
| 15 | With the others not around , she will be less likely to be assertive to strange dogs . |
| 16 | A hostile article is even less likely to be satisfactory to a reader . |
| 17 | We have talked in this book about the bereaved person 's need to talk and be recognized as someone having a mourning role , but if few people know us anyway , they are less likely to be aware of the major change in our life and we are less likely to feel able to talk to them about it . |
| 18 | In fact , language , through abstraction , is a much more efficient form or communication and possesses much more control over its interpretation , and it is rather that this difference in evocation is less likely to be evident in artefactual symbolism than in linguistic symbolism . |
| 19 | The typical visitor ( paying an adult admission charge of £23 ) is probably less likely to be interested in the architecture of the pavilions than in their contents . |
| 20 | Involuntary discharges through bankruptcy are though much less likely to be significant in larger firms where labour turnover is much more related to age . |
| 21 | They will be less inclined to be loyal to Delhi . |