Example sentences of "likely to be [noun] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Declining markets are therefore not likely to be receivers of major investment even if current returns are high . |
| 2 | As to schools , a DES spokesperson let it be known that such concerns are left to the LEAs and that studies of this kind are likely to be part of religious education . |
| 3 | Since women are much less likely than men to be employed full-time , to be in highly paid secure jobs or to hold managerial or professional posts , they are less likely to be members of occupational pension schemes . |
| 4 | In a similar fashion , and as Tables 3.6 and 3.7 show , establishments where the workforce is declining , both in the long-term and the short-term , are less likely to be users of fixed-term contract workers . |
| 5 | Why are the 1990s likely to be years of expanding use of interactive multimedia ? |
| 6 | The stress on Levi 's insensitivity to religion is allowed to suggest that all Jews are religious , and there are readers for whom this might signal the corollary that all Jews are Zionists , and are likely to be supporters of Israeli government policy . |
| 7 | Idiosyncratic gestures , such as an individual 's habit of tossing back a strand of hair , are more likely to be signals of personal character or state of mind which are transmitted unintentionally and unconsciously . |
| 8 | ‘ Young men are far more likely to be victims of violent crime than women and the risks of being raped by a stranger are very small indeed ( approximately one in 25,000 ) but most women would put the risk at a lot higher . |
| 9 | Women were more likely to be consumers of healthy alternatives . |