Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] likely to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Queen would normally send for the person she deemed most likely to be able to form a government with majority support in the Commons . |
| 2 | Boys appear more likely to be accommodated in residential settings than girls , and younger children tend to be placed in foster homes ( see DHSS , 1988 ) . |
| 3 | Although those in the control sample in Ipswich appear more likely to be in receipt of home help than those in the action sample ( perhaps in compensation for their lack of Home Support Project help ) the mean number of home help hours received by those who were getting any was higher in the action than control sample ( 3.8 hours per week compared with 2.4 hours in the control group ) . |
| 4 | Other supposed pongine characters of the zygomatic and orbital regions appear more likely to be primitive for the Hominidae . |
| 5 | Once separated from the jaws they appear equally likely to be digested , so that there is approximate equivalence between the samples . |
| 6 | Despite the past experiences of many manufacturing workers , and the wariness of telecommunications workers , the industrial robot looks increasingly likely to be a positive rather than a negative influence in many working environments . |
| 7 | Health and safety , and management/supervisory courses were the areas of training most likely to be specified , if the type of training offered by central departments was delineated . |
| 8 | For the same reason they have focused on the groups who seemed most likely to be needy : the working class in the inner city , the isolated and the institutionalized . |
| 9 | In the 2 1/2-year-old tapes , a man believed most likely to be bachelor James Gilbey is heard calling Di ‘ Squidgy ’ and ‘ Darling ’ as the Princess talks of her torment . |
| 10 | Sjahrir seemed more likely to be acceptable to the Dutch government and late in November he indicated his willingness to begin ‘ tripartite ’ negotiations . |
| 11 | Just ask Falkirk , who have produced some great stuff this season yet look increasingly likely to be playing their football in the First Division next season . |
| 12 | That is to say , it still remains the case that men of all social origins have become more likely to be found in service-class positions and less likely to be found in working-class ones . |
| 13 | The locale is described as a university in the north of England , it could be anywhere from Nottingham to Newcastle , but seems more likely to be Lancashire or Merseyside . |
| 14 | The splitting on the shaft of the tibia again follows the collagen fibre orientations , but that on the head of the femur seems more likely to be structural on a larger scale due to the rounded shape of the femur head . |
| 15 | But as the late Professor S. G. F. Brandon of Manchester University has convincingly argued , ‘ Judas Iscariot ’ now seems more likely to be a corruption of ‘ Judas the Sicarius ’ — or Zealot . |
| 16 | He said that " the essence of the duty seems more likely to be that of not using without paying rather than of not using at all " . |
| 17 | This confirms that although the junctions a subject recalls are the ones at which they reported subjective risk , they are also the busy ones and the ones the subject regards as likely to be the most dangerous in other conditions ; this means that actual feelings of risk may not be solely responsible for the effect . |
| 18 | We noted how shrewdly the man was found paying attention to the member of the party who looked most likely to be the paymaster . |
| 19 | Some philosophers have distinguished between our ‘ subjective ’ and ‘ objective ’ duty , and said that our subjective duty is to do what we think most likely to be our objective duty . |
| 20 | Very few features appear to be attributable solely to the action of wind-driven sand and Cotton ( 1942 ) mentions only yardangs as likely to be caused solely by wind action . |