The phrase "are more given" is not correct in standard written English.
It may be an attempt to express a tendency or inclination, but it is not a commonly used construction.
Example: "People in this region are more given to hospitality than in other areas."
Alternatives: "are more inclined" or "tend to be more".
Blackbirds are more given to this irregular variation than any other common species.
Not everyone is content with quiet epiphanies, though: a section that Van Dyck has labelled "Unjust Punishment" focusses on poets who mostly publish online — peripheral voices that are more given to criticizing establishments both political and literary.
But it will also mark the next stage of a commercial saga in which fortunes are wagered on the way the world will fly.Few industries are more given to self-dramatisation than the aviation business.
Dr. Pinker believes, to the contrary, that dominance and violence are universal; that human societies are more given to an ethos of reciprocity than to communal sharing; that intelligence and character are in part inherited, meaning that "some degree of inequality will arise even in perfectly fair economic systems," and that all societies are ethnocentric and easily roused to racial hatred.
Judging from a society devoted to their jottings, they are more given to such observations as (in Basil L. Gildersleeve's "Pindar: The Olympian and Pythian Odes") "This very sound edition is marred by the metrical analysis, which by modern standards is moonshine start to finish," and (with regard to "Flaubert's Straight and Suspect Saints," by Aimée Israel-Pelletier) "Do not use this book.
Yet, at those moments we come upon the signed question posed without a question mark, "were you forced to walk," even the historically uninformed (and perhaps the uninformed in particular) are more given to being stirred by the mysterious inquiry, enough to pay attention to the accompanying signs that we then find encircling a bronze sculptural figure of a man slumped over from exhaustion.
What is more, given the forces involved, even advances in technology are not always sufficient.
The finance industry is more given to herd-like behaviour than any other.
This president is more given to dead-or-alive, axis-of-evil sloganeering than persuasion.
By contrast, he added, the Western approach is more given to mergers and acquisitions.
Whereas Italians today drink moderately with meals, their ancestors were more given to drunken carousing.
