Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [be] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strike up some personal rapport with the person in charge Of the centre so that he or she is more likely to go that extra mile for you . |
| 2 | A great many assessment systems are competitive in that the extrinsic rewards they offer are in short supply and each student who wants them is asked to demonstrate that he or she is more deserving than others , or others are less deserving . |
| 3 | If we want to influence another person and that person is working under enormous stress and is irritated by our request , we can stand back and wait until she or he is more relaxed . |
| 4 | And I am more worried about what he thinks of me than of what he might do to Havvie . ’ |
| 5 | Between the noise of the bloody guns and clouds of bloody mosquitoes buzzing around my head , all I 've had for my two hours is more mosquito lumps on my face , and I 'm more tired than ever. , Taff and I chatted while he sat on the floor of the trench smoking his cigarette . |
| 6 | Give me a six foot tank and I 'm more likely to put a shoal of small 25mm Tetras into it , along with a few Dwarf Cichlids and Corydoras , than use it for one or two larger fish . |
| 7 | I 've become close to Lesley , closer to the baby , and I 'm more careful with money . |
| 8 | The messages passing between Karen and I were more complex . |
| 9 | Besides myself there were three other passengers , but they all disembarked at Rarotonga , and after that , for the three days at sea before we reached Koraloona , Robins and I were more or less on our own . |
| 10 | My practical mastery had made me acutely aware of the boundaries which separate those inside the institution from those excluded from the specialist knowledge of ‘ doing the business ’ and I was more than ever aware of the suspicions which would have been aroused if I had introduced questions of an academic nature , or had distributed questionnaires . |
| 11 | I gave her the carrier and watched her jaunty backview disappear with it into the crowds , and I was more and more sure that what she was carrying was harmless . |
| 12 | I did n't eat meat and I was more interested in ornithology than football . ’ |
| 13 | Normandin was a precious link to that other world that held John and I was more excited than nervous as we walked to his apartment near the Champs-Elysées . |
| 14 | I had never seen a man deliberately killed before and I was more scared even than I had been before . |
| 15 | He asked me out , and I was more than pleased to accept . |
| 16 | Reflecting on that marvellous performance Jim Nelson said : ‘ With five minutes to go we were trailing by four points and I was more than happy to get a share of the points . |
| 17 | It is much worse than a judge at Cruft 's checking over the points of a Pomeranian or Pekinese , and you are more likely to be bitten . |
| 18 | IT 'S Friday the 13th tomorrow — and you are more likely to have car problems than on any other day . |
| 19 | And you 're more likely to be accepted by your peers . |
| 20 | THE Chippendales might be great movers on stage but follow their fitness video and you 're more likely to feel the pain than the burn . |
| 21 | To check the registration , look closely at the horizontal lines on the screen , preferably against a white background ; if they have red and green edges it means that the registration is out , and you 're more likely to develop eyestrain . |
| 22 | Erm there 's no choice everybody 's got to move , and you 're more involved with the , the removal of people , sort of , the sort of problems that they encounter finding removal firms , connection of electricity at the new places , and all that sort of thing . |
| 23 | Do you feel like it 's almost like doing a different thing that you 're not , you know when you 're actually acting in the play you 're more self conscious and you 're more conscious of what you 're you 're moving and you 're speaking and whereas the likes of the panto you know you just be yourself really with a bit of fun thrown in . |
| 24 | I could have gone mad , you know , but the tragedy is that during the courses a lot of them and I expect that the best time to learn is when you 're young and you 're more receptive . |
| 25 | That 's just because she 's married to an older man basically er she 's I know it 's a sweeping generalisation but it is it is a fact that and and she 's more your type |
| 26 | She had recognised that Jack 's jail sentence would probably — with parole — be fairly short , a year or two maybe , and she was more than prepared to sit those years out , now , in return for normal family life . |
| 27 | Now the old problem arose again : she found herself in new places and she was more interested in exploring them thoroughly than she was in the chick , even though she was at flying weight . |
| 28 | However , the London season was almost upon them and she was more cheerful than she 'd been for weeks . |
| 29 | Last time she was the agent for the then-MP , Mr Ian Wrigglesworth , and she was more than willing to step into his shoes . |
| 30 | ‘ We are more mature as a team and we are more clever . |