Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] 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 | The Zoology here , from what I have already seen , is likely to be of a most interesting description , totally different in its nature from that of Sydney , but probably approaching nearer in its character to the productions found beyond the Liverpool range , or what is more properly called the interior of New South Wales . ’ |
| 5 | If Wordsworth had been a simple country boy , they could have patronized him ; the Johnsonian style of the Preface to Lyrical Ballads showed that he could write like the gentlemanly reviewers if he wanted to , and nothing is more infuriating than one of our own sort who ‘ lets the side down ’ . |
| 6 | And no-one is more aware of the side 's shortcomings than Coyle . |
| 7 | The policies of international aid , which defy rational justification on either economic or strategic grounds , are at once intelligible when viewed as a collective purgation of the fear of envy , to which the ‘ affluent society ’ — itself an envy-guilt coinage — is especially prone and which is more vivid to the donors than the imagined envy is to the recipients . |
| 8 | Second , is the slow , close in , type of circuit which is much more characteristic of a helicopter and which is more accurately described as a ‘ hovering manoeuvre ’ . |
| 9 | So while we may now know something about who is more likely to abuse and who is more likely to be a victim , we do not know why , when , how often and with what degree of certainty , abuse will take place , nor what the consequences will be for the child . |
| 10 | Several studies have characterised the young social drug user as an adolescent who is alienated from school and who is more involved with peer group activities than activities centred around the home . |
| 11 | Names on the map tell us a great deal about the ancient undrained landscape , and none is more telling than the presence on the Ordnance Survey Map of the lowlands of the word ‘ moor ’ : Morton or Moortown ; Sedgemoor ; Otmoor ; Moorgate , the gate in London 's city wall which opened on to Moorfields , the marsh which William Dugdale , in his seventeenth-century classic on drainage , describes as a favourite resort of Londoners for skating . |
| 12 | It is simply that one is a more likely response for the middle-class housewife and one is more likely for her working-class sister . |
| 13 | And there is more to politics than economics . |
| 14 | But strip away the hype and there is more original thought , substance and strength than on any of the pre-Tabor offerings . |
| 15 | For a growing number of older women , a great support in building up a sense of independence and self-esteem has been the a growth of the feminist movement , and there is more on this in the chapter ‘ Feeling good , looking good ’ . |
| 16 | Not every physical attraction is sexual and there is more to eros than sex . |
| 17 | The fourth principle is that ‘ personal data held for any purpose or purposes shall be adequate , relevant and not excessive in relation to that purpose or those purposes ’ — and there is more to this than at first meets the eye . |
| 18 | You do not have to immediately join a group — it may not be what you want anyway and there is more about different options later . |
| 19 | The goat 's horns are extremely sharp and potentially lethal , and there is more than one record of a grizzly bear being fatally wounded by a goat . |
| 20 | People are people and there is more in common than there is to separate them . |
| 21 | Leave the beaches and there is more beyond . |
| 22 | ‘ Cotton Pickers ’ and ‘ How Strong Is Love ’ are singalong jewels , ‘ Blind Faith ’ is savage and incisive , and there is more , much more , just waiting to be discovered , immediately loved and forever treasured by you . |
| 23 | And there is more . |
| 24 | In many cases the issues raised are contentious and there is more than one answer possible . |
| 25 | And there is more . |
| 26 | But the law does contain such offences , and it is more a matter of prosecutors making little use of them . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | Terminology in this field tends to be somewhat confused and it is more helpful to regard the assessment of training as one integrated process , while recognising that the facets described as evaluation and validation are contained within the general concept . ’ |