Example sentences of "more [adj] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The façade is more classical than is usual in Prague , but it is nevertheless true Baroque — a Baroque that is more used to being displayed in the wider streets of Vienna . |
| 2 | We were more used to being given a few cans of lager and that was it , ’ says Solowka . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | Similarly farmers are more prepared to be indulgent about their employees ' working hours as long as the necessary tasks are carried out efficiently . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Some designs allow more light to be gathered than in camera eyes . |
| 8 | Much more interesting to be a part of the making of it . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Sometimes they 'd seen her , other times not , but it was always more exciting to be that close . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But whether the French will be any more amenable to being ganged up on in this fashion remains to be seen . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He seemed to be more content to be just a consultant to everyone in the music business than actually being a pioneer . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Giving up smoking together too is much more likely to be successful than if you have to struggle alone . |
| 21 | If internal criticism is unwelcome , the views of outsiders are even more likely to be seen as hostile and derogatory . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Yet older people tend to occupy the oldest , poorest housing and are more likely to be private tenants than other groups . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 ’ . |
| 28 | Workers under 35 years are the worst oversleepers , but overall women are more likely to be late than men , the survey found . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |