Example sentences of "likely [pers pn] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Most likely she 's hiding ! ’ put in Admiral King-Fisher . |
| 4 | Edouard knew that the more rational his arguments were , the more likely she was to resist them . |
| 5 | The more you manage to re-educate your eating habits , stretch and tone your body , the more likely you are to continue in the long term . |
| 6 | There is a great deal of prejudice about age , with the result that the older you are the more likely you are to remain unemployed for more than a year . |
| 7 | The more efficient you become the more likely you are to retain the rabbiting rights for the future . |
| 8 | The longer you leave it the more likely you are to profit from the upward trend in equities established now for nearly a century . |
| 9 | The better a salesman you are the more likely you are to succeed . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | The better your plan , the more likely you are to end up in the right place . |
| 12 | The further away the pickups are from the strings the less likely you are to experience wolf notes . |
| 13 | The more overweight you are the more likely you are to get high blood pressure and diabetes . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | the clearer you are about what you want er the better , you know , the more likely you are to get w er you know what 's appropriate for you really . |
| 16 | Yes I I I would accept that as a general point yes that that that that that that the greater number of years , the more likely you are to get a long term trend . |
| 17 | The younger you are , the more likely you are to tell the truth . |
| 18 | As a general rule , the younger you are , the more likely you are to benefit from changing over to the full rate . |
| 19 | The only words of comfort I can give are that the more emotional freedom you give your children , the more likely you are to keep their love and affection . |
| 20 | The larger the filing system , the less likely you are to find that nugget of hidden gold when you want it . |
| 21 | In short the healthier you become — by eating healthily , and choosing the foods that suit you — the more likely you are to eat healthily and maintain your correct weight in the long term . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | After all that , remember one thing : the faster you can run , the more likely you are to escape . |
| 24 | Being a combat sport karate carries with it the risk of injury and the more you compete , the more likely you are to suffer injury . |
| 25 | Note also that the fewer units you have the less likely you are to suffer from animosity . |
| 26 | The more these systems are developed in concert and in a logical sequence , the more likely you are to have a successful implementation , and therefore reap the considerable benefits possible . |
| 27 | The figures for the deaths in Britain also produced predictable but depressing evidence that the poorer you were the more likely you were to become one of winter 's grimmer statistics . |
| 28 | Therefore tournaments were mock-battles contested by teams of knights and , as in war , the more knights in your team the more likely you were to win . |
| 29 | It has n't been raining very long , and the quicker we can move , the more likely we are to get them out before conditions deteriorate to the extent that the passages become impassable . ’ |
| 30 | It would have gone on to say , , that cases of food poisoning had risen by fifty percent , and then Mr Chadwick saying , ‘ It 's likely we 're receiving more notifications . ’ |