Example sentences of "is less likely to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if unemployment is only part of the problem , it seems to me that the man who can busy himself cutting peats , or growing crops , or handling stock , is less likely to be depressed , less likely to feel that his life has no meaning , than a man who has empty days to fill in the back streets of an industrial town |
| 2 | One interpretation must be that voluntary work is viewed as rather less significant , in the sense that some old person doing a little forest conservation is less likely to be as dangerous as the ancient quack prescribing cupping or the antiquated magistrate consigning culprits to the stocks . |
| 3 | A well-adjusted , happy child is less likely to be physically ill ( see Chapter Eight ) so it is important to get the balance right . |
| 4 | You can use a stronger line which is less likely to be cut ; but , inevitably its extra weight and drag will put you at a disadvantage in terms of manoeuvrability . |
| 5 | The amount of time the property is left unoccupied : Insurance companies recognise that if you are retired , the house is less likely to be burgled than one where the occupants are out at work all day . |
| 6 | Roller-hockey is less likely to be there , being a rather namby-pamby non-contact sport played by white men in tight shorts and elasticated socks ( left and below right ) . |
| 7 | If anxieties are ironed out before a transfer takes place , the employee is less likely to be under the pressure of family concerns when taking up the new appointment . |
| 8 | Choose a heavy feeding bowl which is less likely to be knocked over than a stainless steel container . |
| 9 | But Mr Premadasa 's approach to the Tamil question is less likely to be followed . |
| 10 | This policing function is less likely to be present in the case of a monopolist , which does not face direct product market pressure . |
| 11 | Hence in such firms this particular problem is less likely to be relevant . |
| 12 | The normal expectation of the officer in very wet weather , then , is that all watercourses will be swollen , turbid , and discoloured ; any further pollution is less likely to be noticeable or do any particular damage . |
| 13 | In fact , language , through abstraction , is a much more efficient form or communication and possesses much more control over its interpretation , and it is rather that this difference in evocation is less likely to be evident in artefactual symbolism than in linguistic symbolism . |
| 14 | ( S. ) 65 ) that the Court of Appeal is less likely to be persuaded to quash the compensation order in such cases , where the offender in the Crown Court has caused specific information relating to his finances to be put before the court . |
| 15 | With agency workers the only clear relationship is for the service sector , and again the suggestion is that in establishments where a large proportion of the labour force is unskilled this form of labour is less likely to be found . |
| 16 | As a consequence , although a company might have more or less orders at any one time , it is less likely to be without any orders than the one-man operation which can contract to only one customer at any one time . |
| 17 | The Boltzmann machine may miss the best solution and climb a foothill , or be stuck on a knife edge ; but the genetic learner has a broader view of many possible states , and is less likely to be so caught . |
| 18 | She is particularly interested in a possible relationship between choice of variant and communicative function , hypothesizing that the plural morpheme is less likely to be realized as [ ? ] when ambiguity results ; compare for example 31 and 32 : |
| 19 | With procedures that are only used occasionally it is less likely to be successful and the trained group may even forget their training . |
| 20 | It is appropriate to reiterate that where economic and social conditions are favourable and medical care available and sufficiently advanced , child health is less likely to be impaired by improper spacing . |
| 21 | The question of whether warranties should be given on a joint and/or several basis is less likely to be relevant when dealing with an asset sale ( where the contracting vendor will usually be a company ) as opposed to a share sale ( when individual shareholders will often be asked to give warranties ) . |
| 22 | There is less likely to be a misunderstanding by the analyst which causes a poorly designed system . |
| 23 | The IS902-PCR results may suggest that M avium subsp silvaticum is less likely to be involved in the pathogenesis of Crohn 's disease but may add to the significance of the IS900-PCR results . |
| 24 | Since money is less likely to be withdrawn quickly from time accounts , banks may feel the need to hold less liquidity , and therefore may decide to increase credit , thus expanding the money supply . |
| 25 | The hemi-epiphytic Ficus microcarpa of Malesia has a caruncle around the fruit inside the syconium ; when it is removed , the fruit is less likely to be ant-transported and those with it removed had a higher germination rate . |
| 26 | Such an order has inheritance tax advantages ( if dissolution of the marriage has taken place ) , a saving in the HM Land Registry fees is available ( see Chapter 3 and generally ) and , as any financial provision can be expressed in the order to be in full and final settlement of the wife 's claims ( see Chapter 11 ) , it is less likely to be upset than an agreement between the parties not carried into a " consent order " ( see for instance Dinch v Dinch [ 1987 ] 1 WLR 252 where the court refused to make a further order on the grounds that the consent order had conclusively determined the rights of the parties in the matrimonial home ) . |