Example sentences of "woman be [adv] likely to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A woman is more likely to be put off by a polished performer , if that is all he has to offer . |
| 2 | Workers under 35 years are the worst oversleepers , but overall women are more likely to be late than men , the survey found . |
| 3 | Men are less likely in future to spend old age with their spouse , while women are more likely to be married . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | There is also another way in which being female has an effect ; women are more likely to be in the kind of low status , perhaps unpleasant , jobs where absenteeism is more likely irrespective of sex . |
| 6 | If present at all , women are more likely to be found in less important and less influential bodies , at local or regional level rather than national levels , and on advisory rather than decision-making bodies . |
| 7 | Middle-class women are more likely to be studied with individual-oriented methods . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | At all ages above 75 years women are more likely to be living in an institution than their male contemporaries . |
| 10 | At all ages older women are more likely to be living alone than their male contemporaries ( Figure 2.10 ) . |
| 11 | Furthermore , cohort studies in Britain show that the relation between a woman 's family size and the family size in which she is brought up is positive , although not very strong : childless women are more likely to be single children themselves , mothers of large families tend to come from larger than average families themselves , even when other influences are controlled for statistically ( Kiernan 1989a ) . |
| 12 | Elderly women are more likely to be affected with leg ulcers , especially if they are moderately disabled , have suffered from ulceration in the past , and lead restricted social lives . |
| 13 | Moreover , among those who are involved in caring , women are more likely to be heavily involved and to undertake activities which are arguably more demanding and unremitting . |
| 14 | Women are still likely to be excluded precisely because they so rarely exercise public power . |
| 15 | Women are less likely to be in paid employment than men . |
| 16 | At all ages over 65 women are less likely to be married than men ; 78 per cent of all males aged 65 + were still married compared with 46 per cent of females . |
| 17 | Older women were least likely to be eligible because they had started working at the factory when the married women 's option ( i.e. to pay reduced NI contributions ) was in full operation and the majority had not considered it financially worthwhile to pay full contributions . |
| 18 | The work had changed in the post-war period , and women were less likely to be employed now at setting pages of books . |
| 19 | Women were more likely to be consumers of healthy alternatives . |
| 20 | Without the option of textiles , the only other really large-scale employer of women in the city was the clothing trade , where women were more likely to be classified as milliner/dressmaker or seamstress than as tailor . |
| 21 | Thirdly , although some data is collected in relation to gender , it would be helpful to see some interpretation of statements like these : Although ‘ women were more likely to be living alone than men , there were a number of very elderly men living on their own and some of them caused their carers great concern ’ . |
| 22 | In both primary and secondary schools , women were more likely to be found at the bottom of the hierarchy of teaching posts . |
| 23 | These women were more likely to be younger , of higher social class , and low parity than those still in the study , but their smoking habits ar recruitment were no different . |