Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [is] 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 | 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 |
| 5 | ‘ I 've grown up , and he 's more helpless , he 's not so powerful and bossy . ’ |
| 6 | Macho man usually prefers talking to his own sex because it 's safer , and he 's more interested in proving he 's as ‘ male ’ as his peer group than in entering a relationship which requires an ability to give , to love , to be tender . |
| 7 | He 's now taken a step upwards or sideways or whatever it is , he 's gone to the Met Office Headquarters , and he 's more concerned with other matters . |
| 8 | And it 's more fun now than when we were consumed by white-hot passion . |
| 9 | you may find that sniffing is n't the main problem , and it 's more urgent to tackle other problems |
| 10 | It 's not cheap but the dispenser means a little goes a long way and it 's more hygienic than a pot . |
| 11 | I get a bit of paper and it 's more official but I still do n't get anywhere . ’ |
| 12 | it prevents the group from becoming bored and frustrated ; 2. it trains you to identify essentials and to avoid waffle ; 3. it gives you practice in handling intellectual exchanges ; 4. it increases your sensitivity to the feelings of others ; 5. it helps you to " think on your feet " and gain self-confidence ; 6. it assists you with later revision and exam techniques ; and 7. it makes for better learning and it 's more fun . |
| 13 | is a foot deformity , present at birth right , present at birth , it does n't happen afterwards , it happens , it 's caused before the baby 's born and it 's more common in boys can be one or both foot , feet . |
| 14 | I 've been meaning to do it , he does n't seem to have the will , and it 's more my job , I think . |
| 15 | kind of carpets all the time , just an odd contract stuff , now it 's nearly all contract , so you 're seeing a lot of different carpets and it 's more interesting wondering where they 're going to , like America and |
| 16 | And it 's more or less on the way to your place at Kew . " |
| 17 | Yeah and it 's more the job-seeker side |
| 18 | Because there are more people there on Saturday and all the people we know will be there and it 's more fun when there 's a crowd . |
| 19 | And it 's more likely that the cloudier west coast will only struggle to ten celcius , that 's fifty farenheit . |
| 20 | I do n't know that the school 's is the right vehicle for this because in many ways , the children who are getting into these things pay more attention to the peer group , and it 's more important to have community groups , community cafes , things which are not seen as authority getting at them . |
| 21 | And it 's more than one teacher , because it 's |
| 22 | Well , it 's growing and it 's more like a small town now and — hey ! |
| 23 | And it 's more than doubled in Swindon and Gloucester . |
| 24 | Er of course it 's , it 's , it 's I think it 's more longwinded than er I mean it 's the first time you 've fully got into it , and it 's more longwinded than the fifteen minutes allows you erm but I , I thought you were doing quite well to be honest . |
| 25 | Because if they 're flat , all the water collects on them and it 's more likely to like , something 's more likely to happen to it . |
| 26 | Other news now , and it 's more than a thousand days since Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza strip began the Intifada or uprising which has cost hundreds of Arab lives . |
| 27 | But the law does contain such offences , and it is more a matter of prosecutors making little use of them . |
| 28 | There was , however , a senior general , Catroux , representing the Free French in Egypt at the time , and it is more probable that it was he who interviewed Stirling . |
| 29 | Although the itching may be due to the movement of the louse over the skin , it only moves a maximum of six inches per day , and it is more likely that an allergic reaction is set up to the lice themselves or to their faeces . |
| 30 | In the Tønder example , however , the vugs occur in the subsurface on top of a salt dome , with thick units of halite above and below , and it is more probable that they were formed by the same late-leaching process that was responsible for the intercrystalline porosity ( Clark 1980a ) . |