Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [adv] [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are very fine , with a reasonably large field and a good light-grasp , though they are rather too heavy to be properly hand-held . |
| 2 | Temporary workers are rather more likely to be self-employed than is the generality of the labour force . |
| 3 | In the supermarket packs of food are seldom in single-portion size but are much more likely to be in family economy packs . |
| 4 | Those with orange eyes are much more likely to be able to hear . |
| 5 | The rabbits are much more likely to be below ground after a snowfall , since they become very much more vulnerable on the surface with their cover blotted out and their feeding areas restricted . |
| 6 | You will also have to be prepared to overlook sudden flashes of anger or periods of irritability which may seem to be aimed at you but which are much more likely to be an expression of her natural resentment of the disaster that has befallen her . |
| 7 | However , single-person households with , for example , an income consisting only of a single person 's state pension are much more likely to be found in the older age groups than in the younger ones . |
| 8 | She is able to show that both women and men are much more likely to be living with relatives after a marriage has ended than during it . |
| 9 | Even where there is an apparent choice between a male and female relative , women are much more likely to be carers — daughters and even daughters-in-law rather than sons ( Henwood and Wicks , 1985 ; Parker , 1985 ; Ungerson , 1987 ) . |
| 10 | Management is on much stronger ground in doing so , and the results are much more likely to be fair . |
| 11 | As we shall see in Chapter 11 on deviance , the activities of groups with fewer power resources are much more likely to be labelled as ‘ social problems ’ and be given greater publicity than are those of the more dominant social groups in society . |
| 12 | Further , they are much more likely to be engaged in part-time work , or homeworking . |
| 13 | But those who stay only for short periods of weeks or months are much more likely to be suffering from serious mental disorder than long term residents . |
| 14 | Women , because of the nurturing and caring roles allocated to them , the responsibility they are given for the well-being and happiness of children and of men , are much more likely to be taught the value of submitting to one 's fate and considering the needs of others before their own . |
| 15 | At 16 they are more likely to be studying at school ; by 18 they are much more likely to be studying at an establishment of further or higher education . |
| 16 | Of course , these are not the abilities which we pride ourselves upon , and we are much more likely to be impressed by the few things which computers do well which we do badly . |
| 17 | By contrast , plosives are much more likely to be found in male endings ( David , Dick , Jock ) . |
| 18 | Well the evidence is that they will erm much more likely to be in poverty , much more likely to suffer ill-health , their children are much more likely to be erm to have childhood diseases . |
| 19 | ‘ You are much too nice to be a politician . ’ |
| 20 | When your notes are growing in volume they are much too valuable to be carried around and perhaps lost . |
| 21 | Whatever we may think of their evocative names , ‘ Queen Elizabeth ’ and ‘ Peace ’ are much too boisterous to be given room in genteel society . |
| 22 | They are much less likely to be using mail order . |
| 23 | Because they live longer , women over 65 are much less likely to be living with their spouse than men of a similar age . |
| 24 | Semi-skilled and unskilled workers are much less likely to be able to buy their own house ( 26 per cent of unskilled workers are owner-occupiers , compared with 87 per cent of professional workers ) . |
| 25 | Non-words can not be read aloud at all ; abstract words like truth or equality are much less likely to be read aloud correctly than concrete words like blood or cathedral ; visual errors such as reading bush as ‘ brush ’ or forge as ‘ ford ’ occur ; function words , and the prefixes and suffixes on affixed words , cause particular difficulties . |
| 26 | Problems with planning and programming , delays in delivery of materials or plant , and double handling , are all less likely to be identified . |
| 27 | The scenes of hooliganism that ended the football season are all too likely to be repeated as England 's most notorious export reaches the shores of Italy . |
| 28 | Goosanders are found on both fresh and salt water , near the coast and well inland , but they are rather rare on the open sea and are perhaps more likely to be seen c-n salt water in very cold weather . |
| 29 | If the Security Council excludes from the new tribunal 's jurisdiction such larger crimes , which are perhaps more likely to be committed by higher state officials , the resulting trials may end up dealing only with the small fry while the big fish get away . |
| 30 | Many of the colour differences among papers are very subtle ; although you can detect them with your eye , they are perhaps too subtle to be translated into the four colour printing process used in magazine productions . |