Example sentences of "[adv] likely [pron] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed the closer one focuses attention on the words and how they are made up , the less likely one is to understand what the passage is about . |
| 2 | The more adequate a man feels , the less likely he is to seek an outside sex partner in order to prove something to himself . |
| 3 | less likely he is to pay . |
| 4 | The more people get used to prodding , weighing and evaluating new planning proposals , the less likely it is that the Hammersmith effect will spread further . |
| 5 | ( 5 ) The more ducks a cat has to choose from the less likely it is to take one duck in particular . |
| 6 | So the more conscious we are the less likely it is that our activities become habitual . |
| 7 | They seem to have happened periodically over the last 900 million years , and may have been doing so since the early days of Earth ( the longer ago something happened , the less likely it is that we will have tripped over the evidence ) . |
| 8 | The more complex professional action becomes , the less likely it is to have any effect . |
| 9 | The more children there are in a family the less likely it is that the younger child will have eating difficulties . |
| 10 | For instance one can readily see how insects adapt themselves to many environments but the larger the animal the less likely it is to survive if the environment drastically changes . |
| 11 | Defence ( 10 credits ) : This protects the player against attackers ; the higher the defence rating the less likely it is your guy will be tackled . |
| 12 | No clear principles determine the allocation of disputes to these bodies although the greater the element of discretion and the more important the policy considerations , the less likely it is for the courts to take on the new area of responsibility . |
| 13 | But the more people who obtain post-school education , the less likely it is to provide them with entry to a career . |
| 14 | The more comparable writers we study , the less likely it is that they are out of step with the norm of the language rather than Swift . |
| 15 | The larger the employer , the less likely it is that there will be an unfair dismissal claim . |
| 16 | The less constrained the genre , primarily interactional ‘ chat ’ , for example , the less likely it is that we can confidently state norms of expectation which will generalise even over the experience of the English-speaking population . |
| 17 | And the more unstable a relationship is , the less likely it is that contraception will be used . |
| 18 | The further in-service training occurs , literally and metaphorically , from their school base the less likely it is that teachers will be able to sustain personal changes and motivation for innovation . |
| 19 | I think it is erm Greater York that has been seen as an area with special problems because of its er historic character , erm which we spent many hours debating at the York greenbelt local plan inquiry , and I think most participants there accepted that the er what was being protected was not just the historic core , but also the setting of York and its surrounding ring of villages , and the way which it is proposed to protect that setting and character is by a greenbelt , now it follows that if you are imposing extremely severe restrictions on new development in an area around a settlement , then you have to meet the legitimate development needs for that settlement in another location , the further away that new settlement or other policy response is located it seems to me the less likely it is to meet the er needs of that settlement , and that will give rise to erm , you know , additional pressures on the settlement you are proposing to protect and maybe those pressures could not be resisted , and I think that 's why there is this requirement that erm the development which might otherwise be built on the edge of York , but which is not proposed to be so built because of the greenbelt needs to be located close , as close to York as is consistent with the original environmental objectives greenbelt objectives for the greenbelt . |
| 20 | Where the breach is caused by inadvertent default the more serious the type of breach covered by the clause , the less likely it is to be reasonable . |
| 21 | In these regions , early marriage is clearly incompatible with the formal schooling of women ; the more educated the woman , the less likely she is to have ever married . |
| 22 | The QT interval beyond which the risk of torsades de pointes increases abruptly has not yet been defined and most likely there is a continuum . |
| 23 | The failure of a chromosome to split properly is much more common in women over the age of about 35 — the older the woman is the more likely she is to have a baby with Down 's . |
| 24 | So the idea is that the more difficult the the situation the mother finds herself is in the more likely she is to spontaneously abort and the more likely any retained er foetus is to be normal an and , and to , and not to have any defects . |
| 25 | Ca , can I just do that then , with , with , yes , excuse me Kevin , I think we we voiced that one , we can see there 's , there a lot , will obviously be increased er er traffic , er from the site , er and it it 's clear that that the bigger the houses the more likely there is we 'd have increased traffic . |
| 26 | The enemy is wily and therefore the more unlikely a person looks , the more likely he is to be the secret enemy . |
| 27 | More likely he is using it in the more everyday usage of ‘ not sent or guided in any special direction ; having no definite aim or purpose ’ ( OED ) , which suggests that any such view of history must have no end , and therefore no teleology . |
| 28 | It is too cautious a view , and the evidence is clear from many studies that the earlier the individual is seen the more likely he is to end up with a patent vessel following thrombolysis . |
| 29 | The more the analyst knows about the features of context , the more likely he is to be able to predict what is likely to be said ( see 2.4 ) . |
| 30 | They are also associated generally with outer-city speech , and data collected by survey methods confirm that the higher the status of the speaker , the more likely he is to use raised variants ( see J. Milroy et al. , 1983 ) . |