Example sentences of "likely [to-vb] in [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These differences are related to the wider patterns of drug use in society at large in which females are proportionately less likely to engage in recreational drug use then males , as this and a number of earlier studies show ( for example , Belle and Goldman 1980 ) . |
| 2 | As a result employers came to reappraise their previous strategy of attempting to contain unions by means of active opposition since that was more likely to result in increased government intervention to facilitate recognition . |
| 3 | Its construction would be likely to result in excessive noise emissions , vibrations and generation of dust to the detriment of amenity , and the winning and working of minerals in this location would be contrary to the Buckinghamshire replacement minerals local plan . |
| 4 | The use of such equipment for on-site data collection is likely to result in considerable efficiency savings , by eliminating unnecessary duplication of effort in writing out temporary records and re-keyboarding data . |
| 5 | Despite the relative dereliction of some parts of Kent , the image of the garden of England remains a powerful influence and is likely to figure in many planning battles to come . |
| 6 | This would seem to be more likely to occur in longer input utterances . |
| 7 | In the original sweat spot test the foot was chosen because , impairment being more likely to occur in longer nerve fibres , the lower extremities would be the first to be involved in diabetic autonomic neuropathy . |