Example sentences of "more [adj] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly farmers are more prepared to be indulgent about their employees ' working hours as long as the necessary tasks are carried out efficiently . |
| 2 | Sentencing policies , as a result of law and order campaigns mean the prisoners are younger and more likely to be black . |
| 3 | Secret eaters were more likely to be dissatisfied with their bodies , have severe eating disorders and be more concerned about their addiction . |
| 4 | One major reason why it is important to provide an explanation hinges on the discrepancy between the present finding of no social class difference in housework satisfaction and the widespread notion that middle-class women are more likely to be dissatisfied . |
| 5 | Giving up smoking together too is much more likely to be successful than if you have to struggle alone . |
| 6 | The distinction is useful because companies that seize an opportunity in markets outside their domestic base are more likely to be successful than those that react in response to an external factor . |
| 7 | Experiments have shown that males which perform the zigzag display at a higher rate ( more swims back and forth per minute ) are more likely to be successful at courtship : a female is more likely to mate with a male whose zigzagging is more energetic . |
| 8 | As noted earlier in this chapter , and by many authors , including Kanter ( 1983 ) , an attempt to change basic ideologies/schemas of multiple parties is more likely to be successful in times of crisis when it becomes obvious that traditional modes of operation are no longer achieving success . |
| 9 | While even the richest states are anxious to attract or retain TNC investment , they are more likely to be successful in imposing conditions on their operations than less developed states . |
| 10 | Of particular interest , is the finding that , proportionately , women were less likely to seek damages , although , if they did , they were more likely to be successful . |
| 11 | Businesses founded on information of this sort are more likely to be successful than those founded on innovation of a more spectacular sort . |
| 12 | The belief here is that people have a basic right to control their own destinies and that , if they are allowed to participate in the analysis and design of the system that they will be using , then the implementation , acceptance and operation of the systems are more likely to be successful . |
| 13 | A more considered approach which involves the salesperson identifying the needs of his or her individual customers and then selling the benefits of the product in order to satisfy those needs is more likely to be successful . |
| 14 | He meant by this that people are more likely to be convinced of the reality of the faith if our expression of it is coherent , sensible and entire . |
| 15 | This is more likely to be feasible in relation to questions relating to demographic and other background characteristics , than for behavioural or product market data . |
| 16 | A company which has to satisfy its customers and compete to survive is more likely to be efficient , alert to innovation , and genuinely accountable to the public ( 1983 Conservative Election Manifesto ) . |
| 17 | A national survey of teachers ' attitudes to equal opportunities found that men were more likely to be opposed to promoting equal opportunities than women , but that differences in subject taught were more important than the sex of the teacher in determining his or her attitude . |
| 18 | The horse 's reactions to its environment are more likely to be consistent , reasonable , judicious , moderate , and practical . |
| 19 | ALTHOUGH any couple can try , people who live together are more likely to be familiar with each other 's body odour . |
| 20 | This has the advantage that , as the level of prices alters over time , the variance of the logarithm of the price relatives is more likely to be stationary than is the variance of the alternatives . |
| 21 | Happily these days , when the system falls down , hari-kari is far more likely to be symbolic , in the form of bankruptcy , reorganisation , or composition , than physical . |
| 22 | Contented workers are more likely to be profitable . |
| 23 | Horses of the same family or the same breed are more likely to be empathic , and so to get on together the best . |
| 24 | Often we prefer our figures to come from other sources if we feel these are more likely to be unbiased . |
| 25 | Consequently , rises in the level of unemployment are likely to be a source of deep anxiety to them since they believe that the unemployed are weak and amoral and therefore more likely to be criminal . |
| 26 | The management will also be asked to give certain non-competition undertakings , of a type often found in service agreements , but which are more likely to be enforceable if incorporated in an investment agreement . |
| 27 | A study , also in the BNJ , says old people are less mobile , less able to wash , dress and feed themselves and more likely to be incontinent than they were in 1979 . |
| 28 | There is an arrow straight to absentee behaviour ; this says that women are more likely to be absent from work than men , regardless of the kind of job they are in . |
| 29 | A causal interpretation of the bivariate effect would have been entirely faulty : it was purely a product of women being both more likely to be in low status jobs and more likely to be absent . |
| 30 | Anecdotal evidence suggests that managers and professional employees are more likely to be absent from work without record than employees with lower status . |