Example sentences of "less likely [pron] [be] [to-vb] " 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 | That will depend on their view of the liquidity of both debt and equity markets : the more liquid they think these are , the less likely they are to sit on cash or to refrain from borrowing , and the more likely they are to pay large dividends . |
| 3 | The tax signalled that he was both tough on the deficit ( it will raise , he hopes , $12 billion over the next five years , and $12 billion a year thereafter ) and serious about the environment ( the more people have to pay for energy , the less likely they are to squander it . ) |
| 4 | And partly this is because the closer you get to concrete ‘ race relations ’ the less likely they are to conform to the models which have informed policy making . |
| 5 | Larger samples will increase precision , the less likely they are to vary from the population value , and the more confident we can be that our sample estimate of the population value is within a given range of accuracy . |
| 6 | The basic argument is that the more adolescents are supervised by their parents and , perhaps , their teachers , the less likely they are to become involved with or influenced by delinquent contemporaries and delinquent values . |
| 7 | This can be seen from the figures in Table 5 which also suggest that the longer the time they had lived in an old people 's home the less likely they were to go into hospital . |
| 8 | In any case the richer you are the less likely you are to realize how cold-hearted the world can be when you are old and penniless — even one 's own relations . ’ |
| 9 | Note also that the fewer units you have the less likely you are to suffer from animosity . |
| 10 | The more you learn about it , the more you understand how to use it , the less likely you are to subject your raw materials to absurd or unharmonious treatments . |
| 11 | The larger the filing system , the less likely you are to find that nugget of hidden gold when you want it . |
| 12 | YOU are not the most mercenary sign of the zodiac , which is probably a good thing considering that the more you chase after your pound of flesh this coming year , the less likely you are to get it . |
| 13 | The further away the pickups are from the strings the less likely you are to experience wolf notes . |
| 14 | The more adequate a man feels , the less likely he is to seek an outside sex partner in order to prove something to himself . |
| 15 | less likely he is to pay . |
| 16 | The more he had to think about , the less likely he was to bother her . |
| 17 | ( 5 ) The more ducks a cat has to choose from the less likely it is to take one duck in particular . |
| 18 | But the more people who obtain post-school education , the less likely it is to provide them with entry to a career . |
| 19 | The more complex professional action becomes , the less likely it is to have any effect . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | And the larger a parrot 's bill , the less likely it was to attack a mirror reflecting its own image ( a standard ploy which convinces most birds that they are confronted by a particularly nasty-looking aggressor ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |