Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adv] [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | polytechnic students were rather more likely to be seeking employment than those studying IT at university ; |
| 2 | CASE students were rather more likely to be in employment than those with ordinary studentships ; |
| 3 | Students who had been in receipt of a CASE award from SERC were rather more likely to be in employment or waiting to start work than those with regular studentships . |
| 4 | In line with what we had expected was the finding that establishments where the level of output , the amount of overtime being worked and the number of persons employed was falling were rather less likely to be using fixed-term contract workers . |
| 5 | Students who had studied IT at a polytechnic were rather less likely to be In employment or to be continuing their studies than their university peers , and more likely to be looking for employment ( Table 4.2 ) . |
| 6 | On the other hand , there were much more likely to be single children still living at home . |
| 7 | Several studies have shown that crabs in shells which were too small for them were much more likely to be eaten by predators . |
| 8 | He was slightly built and liked to joke in public about his prominent ears and simian features , though contemporaries were much more likely to be arrested by the large and melancholy brown eyes . |
| 9 | SERC students were much more likely to be working in the electronic information systems industry ( eg mainframe or micro-computers , word processors etc ) and In software services than were non-SERC students . |
| 10 | Drug agencies and family planning specialists were much more likely to be contacted by secondary than primary schools . |
| 11 | In particular they had considerably more marital difficulties , and were much more likely to be currently suffering from psychiatric disorder . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , ex-care women were much less likely to experience the protective effect of a non-deviant supportive spouse , firstly because they were more likely than comparison women to marry men with problems , and secondly because they were much more likely to be without any kind of spouse . |
| 13 | Girls who reported positive experiences at school were much more likely to be ‘ planners ’ . |
| 14 | And er what they found was that the media sensitive managers were much more likely to be regarded as highly successful and sensitivity in selection of media by relating the medium to the message would seem to relate quite closely to erm y'know high performance as a manager Let's have a look at |
| 15 | But we were all too polite to be honest . |
| 16 | Tonight , though , they were all too excited to be read to . |
| 17 | He tried to keep it quiet , but there were people in the neighbourhood who were all too eager to be a part of the excitement . |
| 18 | Time and history , and above all the revelation in ( and not merely through ) Jesus Christ , were all too likely to be sold short by this . |
| 19 | At Oxford I discovered that most people were only too willing to be friendly if I gave them a chance . |
| 20 | Her very good degree and her dedication had earned her a place here the year before and now she taught English to girls who were only too willing to be taught . |
| 21 | We may have had gangrene , amputations , even paralysis but , too young to see any futility , we were only too glad to be alive . |
| 22 | The fingers on her shoulder did n't move , but his voice thickened as if his emotions were suddenly too strong to be concealed . |
| 23 | In line with other studies , we found that larger establishments were more likely to use temporary workers but , and more important , we also found that they were not more likely to be " high users " of temporary workers . |
| 24 | Another revelation : enthusiastic volunteers were not necessarily best-suited to be foster parents , either by temperament or circumstances . |
| 25 | Older people were not necessarily unwilling to be excluded , as the existence of ‘ retirement movements ’ in various industrialized countries demonstrates ( Guillemaud , 1983 ) . |
| 26 | He found in his research on Mexican unions that there was no direct link between union affiliation and militancy , in other words the unions that were controlled from above were not less likely to be militant . |
| 27 | As far as the tabloid music press were concerned , Nirvana were just too good to be true . |
| 28 | This may be done for a variety of reasons including someone 's anxiety that the original figures were just too unlikely to be reliable . |
| 29 | When they were not fighting each other , the kings and caliphs were just as likely to be seeking each other 's protection or vassalage . |
| 30 | Furthermore , it suggest that those people who had become unemployed because of a temporary job coming to an end were just as likely to be unemployed for only a short spell and then to go back to work , and that they were less likely to have been continuously unemployed throughout the following year ( Moylan/Millar/Davies , 1984 ) . |