Example sentences of "more [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In spite of your intuition , my dear Shiona , Janice is a much nicer person than you , and far more suited to be Kirsty 's mother . ’ |
| 2 | Similarly farmers are more prepared to be indulgent about their employees ' working hours as long as the necessary tasks are carried out efficiently . |
| 3 | He was representative of the German bench of bishops as a whole , who were more prepared to be the servants of the emperor than of a distant pope . |
| 4 | In this situation , it is much more sensible to be in the second or even third row from the start line , but you should be right at the starboard end . |
| 5 | Some designs allow more light to be gathered than in camera eyes . |
| 6 | Much more interesting to be a part of the making of it . ’ |
| 7 | There was nothing more interesting to be seen than if this had been the entrance to a rabbit warren , nothing but a tunnel that led down into darkness . |
| 8 | If there are problems , le we could work them through together , but I think this is much more interesting to be , sort o I think to be linked in with an outside project like this , and just to be working away in isolation , and so we 'll feel our way experimentally . |
| 9 | Sometimes they 'd seen her , other times not , but it was always more exciting to be that close . |
| 10 | I can imagine it would be , because perhaps , erm , the higher you are , not only is it more easy to fall , but it 's more easy to be tempted . |
| 11 | Thank you Chairman I , I actually agreed with those not so much that erm I , I have problems with erm other matters , it is more extra to be examined and because it actually says that it has to be examined once , and will therefore be re-examined erm , erm I am sure if it should be examined they have to put exact what it means examine in and before and as you say er you will be the first to say . |
| 12 | He seemed to be more content to be just a consultant to everyone in the music business than actually being a pioneer . |
| 13 | The locale is described as a university in the north of England , it could be anywhere from Nottingham to Newcastle , but seems more likely to be Lancashire or Merseyside . |
| 14 | There were an awful lot of nice people working in the building , but there is sometimes a certain tone in your voice , a clouded look in your eye , which gives the impression that you 're more likely to be a client than a colleague . |
| 15 | While other chaps sing the praises of Meryl Streep , Joely Richardson or Gabriela Sabatini , I 'm much more likely to be found getting worked up over worms . |
| 16 | This means that in most cases it is more likely to be a matter of relaxing the forward pressure to allow the aircraft to level out rather than pulling it out with a positive backward pressure on the stick . |
| 17 | Giving up smoking together too is much more likely to be successful than if you have to struggle alone . |
| 18 | If internal criticism is unwelcome , the views of outsiders are even more likely to be seen as hostile and derogatory . |
| 19 | The infant retrieves , or witnesses the retrieval of an object from behind A ( say ) three times , after which he watches as the experimenter moves it to place B. On seeing it vanish at B he will go straight back to A. Although the back-to-A error is more likely to be made the longer the delay between hiding at B and allowing search , this is not a memory problem in any simple sense because the infant will return to A even if the object remains visible at B. We find a particularly clear demonstration of this kind of ‘ perseveration ’ in an experiment by Paul Harris in which there were two transparent , lockable boxes as the A and the B location . |
| 20 | Although working people are now more likely to be contributing to an occupational or personal pension , even in future years not all people will have been able to accumulate sufficient provision to support themselves in retirement — for example those people who have not worked for many years because they were unemployed or disabled or caring for relatives . |
| 21 | Yet older people tend to occupy the oldest , poorest housing and are more likely to be private tenants than other groups . |
| 22 | The assumption that the cultural achievements of the past are actually obsolete is more likely to be implied than so explicitly stated , but it is a logical implication of a progressivist concept of knowledge . |
| 23 | By the age of seven , differences between boys and girls have emerged , with boys being more likely to be smacked once a week than girls . |
| 24 | But , according to Peter Sommer , a computer forensics expert , a hard disc ‘ is more likely to be wiped out by glitches in the electricity supply ’ . |
| 25 | Workers under 35 years are the worst oversleepers , but overall women are more likely to be late than men , the survey found . |
| 26 | Businessmen and women in the North-west and Midlands are more likely to be early than their counterparts in London despite the fact that traffic is apparently not a significantly bigger problem . |
| 27 | In 19 out of the 24 subjects in the table ( right ) , their graduates are more likely to be unemployed or to be in short-term employment only . |
| 28 | A sociology graduate , whether from a university or polytechnic , is 10 times more likely to be unemployed or in short-term employment than a building , pharmacy or civil engineering graduate . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |