Example sentences of "and the [adv] likely " in BNC.
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| 1 | This procedure is akin to the methods now being used for computerised medical diagnosis , where the symptoms are fed in to the computer and the most likely illness is predicted . |
| 2 | However , the third main contender for the lady of the mask , and the most likely , is Darrel 's sister Ada , for several reasons . |
| 3 | Time magazine , as always reflecting the indoctrines of the Luce family and assuming the mantle of the responsible voice of America , recorded that : ‘ it was a scene as grisly as anything depicted in Polanski 's film explorations of the dark and melancholy corners of human character … and the most likely theory is that the slayings were related to narcotics . ’ |
| 4 | They are the least likely to have had between 1 and 4 partners and the most likely to have had more than 30 . |
| 5 | And finally , and the most likely , that a mixture and muddle of all these considerations — political opportunism or opportunity , naive expectation , and well-meant but ill-judged intention — entered in central government 's motive . |
| 6 | The great rectangular block on which are inscribed the one-sixtieth fractions of the allied tribute which were ‘ paid ’ to the goddess Athena has room for one fewer annual list than the available years , and the most likely solution from a technical point of view is that no one-sixtieth was paid to Athena in 449 . |
| 7 | It would be too much to expect convergent evolution to have produced a single thrifty genotype in all populations by chance , and the most likely situation is that several genes have been selected in different combinations , in different populations , to produce a phenotypically similar syndrome . |
| 8 | The ratios of the total number of mice exhibiting recombinant to the total number of mice analysed for each pair of loci and the most likely order are : centromere — Acrg — 1/77 — Oct-11b — 0/59 — Bcl-2 — 4/127 — En-1 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The deeper down a tunnel goes the more dangerous it is and the more likely it is to be inhabited by some terrible monster . |
| 11 | The more organized the body of knowledge appears to be , the more distinct its academic identity , and the more likely it is to be called a ‘ discipline ’ . |
| 12 | Confirming instances are such if they give inductive support to a theory , and the greater the number of confirming instances established , the greater the support for the theory and the more likely it is to be true . |
| 13 | c ) The importance of the forecast : the more important the forecast , the more informed must be the choice of method , and the more likely will be the need to use several forecasting methods . |
| 14 | Does the case suggest that the worse the plight of the promisor ( for example , the bigger the penalty clause ) the greater the benefit to him and the more likely it is that performance of the contract will be held to be consideration ? |
| 15 | When in doubt , beef it up — the more powerful the force , the less likely that it will have to fight and the more likely that it will succeed in its mission . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But the smaller the jump the less likely death is , and the more likely is it that the jump will result in improvement . |
| 18 | In general , the lower an individual 's class position , the more likely he or she is to leave school at the minimum leaving age and the less likely to aspire and strive for a highly rewarded position . |
| 19 | There is little variation by sex or social class in these attitudes , and little consistent variation with age except that the older the respondents , the more likely they are to consider Respect for authority and Discipline and orderliness essential , and the less likely to consider Sex education essential . |
| 20 | According to Craik and Lockhart , the deeper the level of processing , the stronger will be the memory trace , and the less likely that forgetting will occur . |
| 21 | When all is said , this is why the alternative we think most rational for the USSR is the least rational and the least likely to emerge . |