Example sentences of "[was/were] more [adj] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were more likely to have been bell towers , although Neeld was very much of the feudal landlord ilk and everything was designed to give an impression of vast wealth and efficiency , ’ he says . |
| 2 | When the type of home was taken into account , those dying of respiratory disease were more likely to have been in nursing homes — 14 per cent compared with 6 per cent for those dying of other conditions — whereas those dying of stroke were more likely to have been in old people 's homes : 27 per cent against 12 per cent . |
| 3 | When the type of home was taken into account , those dying of respiratory disease were more likely to have been in nursing homes — 14 per cent compared with 6 per cent for those dying of other conditions — whereas those dying of stroke were more likely to have been in old people 's homes : 27 per cent against 12 per cent . |
| 4 | These then are the main characteristics which distinguish the early retired from other older workers who remained actually or potentially in the labour market : the former were more likely to have been close to pension age , to report ill health , to be better off financially and to have non-manual occupations . |
| 5 | In the magnetic resonance imaging studies subjects who showed the more severe white matter changes had worse recent phenylalanine control and were more likely to have been on a normal diet without protein substitute for longer ( A J Thompson , I Smith , D P Brenton , personal communication ) . |
| 6 | The work characteristics and social support were more likely to have been misclassified than some of the other explanatory variables . |
| 7 | Lawyers for whom ducal service constituted a major part of their career were more likely to have been drawn from outside the duke 's regional orbit . |
| 8 | The farm workers were far more village orientated , were more likely to have been born and bred locally , and had lower incomes and poorer access to housing . |
| 9 | Our adjustment for these confounding factors meant that any remaining differences in perinatal mortality rates were more likely to have been due to differences in the care received by patients . |
| 10 | Lawyers for whom ducal service constituted a major part of their career were more likely to have been drawn from outside the duke 's regional orbit . |
| 11 | you perhaps have n't got the same degree of landlord exploitation , you might , I think one might argue from , from what we said earlier that in the north you 've got a s a slightly more paternalistic landlord , it 's , it , there 's less , less absentee landlordism landlords were more likely to have been behaving within the confines of moral economy would n't , would n't have been tt erm reducing rents , it was done on a much more , more personal sort of scale . |
| 12 | It was difficult to ask some months later about the events and personnel : most Zuwaya were understandably reticent and those who were more ready to talk were not always obviously reliable . |
| 13 | However , it does suggest that the patient 's distress beforehand was more likely to have been related to environmental stresses than an endogenous illness . |
| 14 | The laboratory 's opinion , though , is that the incident was more likely to have been an attempt to make the researchers there look a bit silly . |
| 15 | The imperial presence was manifest : those who attended had the advantage of travelling on the imperial transport system ; the structure of the Council mirrored that of senatorial procedure , the 318 fathers ( a traditional number — actual attendance was more likely to have been about 250 ) gathered in a hall of the imperial palace ; Constantine spoke asking them to restore concord , and then left them to themselves . |