Example sentences of "be [adv] as likely to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Articles on this sort of theme may appear in art periodicals , but are just as likely to be found in other journals , on literature , say , or history . |
| 2 | But they are just as likely to be white , middle-class , and middle-aged . |
| 3 | Thus , Stevie Wonder and Al Green are just as likely to be cited as influences alongside the likes of Soul II Soul or Public Enemy . |
| 4 | Moreover , while the engineers tended to work on or near the shop-floor , today 's scientific and technical professionals are just as likely to be located far from actual production . |
| 5 | Communication links between the ‘ explorers ’ and the ‘ implementers ’ need to be strong , although they are just as likely to be based on informal as distinct from formal communications patterns and networks . |
| 6 | Sometimes these triggering events are related to physical ageing , but are just as likely to be related to personal changes , such as a death in the family . |
| 7 | Experienced workers are just as likely to be killed as trainees . |
| 8 | Latterly it has become increasingly apparent that neighbouring small-scale communities , even when they are lumped together under the same " tribal " label , are just as likely to be sharply contrasted as they are to be very much the same . |
| 9 | Individual trees are just as likely to be harmfully overshadowed by members of their own species as by members of other species . |
| 10 | They 're just as likely to be used against us as they are against you . |
| 11 | When they were not fighting each other , the kings and caliphs were just as likely to be seeking each other 's protection or vassalage . |
| 12 | Furthermore , it suggest that those people who had become unemployed because of a temporary job coming to an end were just as likely to be unemployed for only a short spell and then to go back to work , and that they were less likely to have been continuously unemployed throughout the following year ( Moylan/Millar/Davies , 1984 ) . |
| 13 | Those who had never acted in Guild Mysteries were just as likely to be accepted as those who had all the verses committed to memory . |
| 14 | English applicants were twice as likely to be selected , and this difference would probably have been greater had we carried out the full study and been able to include posts in teaching hospitals . |
| 15 | Among the small minority of combatants who found it difficult to adjust to civilian life after the war , who were anti-semitic , militantly anti-communist and concerned about the continued decline of Britain , individuals were almost as likely to be anti-fascist as supporters of fascism . |
| 16 | The original juice may be from cider apples , but it is just as likely to be imported eating apple juice concentrate . |
| 17 | Cause : Irritation — but this is just as likely to be from something in the water as from flukes or protozoan parasites . |
| 18 | There is some evidence that parents of low intelligence tend to produce children of low intelligence but this is not invariably the case and , where it is , it is just as likely to be as a result of environmental deprivation as of heredity . |
| 19 | An expensive project is just as likely to be in error as a cheap one . |
| 20 | He 's just as likely to be found talking to a six-strong student society in Bangor as addressing 500 top Earth scientists in Washington ; he will have a drink with ( and on ) me just as readily ( or so he makes it appear ) as he will have lunch with ( and no doubt on ) the director of the US National Science Foundation ; if he 's not corresponding with some editor over some esoteric point of science , he 's trying to persuade the high-ups at the European Space Agency to do something adventurous in planetology for a change . |
| 21 | The figures also suggest that if you hold a qualification , you are half as likely to be unemployed as someone who has none . ’ |
| 22 | The night shift was no trouble to me if Nigel was at home , but he was just as likely to be thousands of miles away , doing something with lighthouses . |
| 23 | In the modern empirical study of politics , the emphasis upon psychological factors in explaining political behaviour is more frequently associated with Graham Walles , whose Human Nature in Politics showed that the political behaviour of individuals was just as likely to be the result of ‘ irrational ’ beliefs as of a rational' calculation of the benefits and penalties that may follow from such behaviour . |