Example sentences of "[adv] likely to be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The extract from the file on Tweed you sent with the courier made the point he often stays at top places because he thinks he 's less likely to be noticed . ’ |
| 2 | Although , in general , individuals who have reached their fiftieth birthday are less likely to be tempted than younger people to leave a company scheme for a personal pension or to alter their current self-employed arrangements , if you are thinking of starting your own business , if you are moving to a new job or if you are ineligible to join your company pension scheme , one of the options described below may offer you an attractive solution . |
| 3 | 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 : |
| 4 | Finally , the gas cylinder , designed to withstand extreme pressure , is much stronger and less likely to be ruptured in an accident than conventional fuel tanks . |
| 5 | Dismissing all but a single guard who was burdened with a lantern on a pole , he began to lead them by the bridges and passageways which cut across the streets in a way which was arguably more direct and certainly less likely to be barred by persistent celebrants . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Other things being equal it appears that those remanded in custody are more likely to plead guilty , substantially less likely to be acquitted and very much more likely to receive a custodial sentence on conviction than their counterparts who are remanded on bail ( see , eg , Bottomley , 1970 ; Davies , 1971 ; and also Home Office , 1990f , Tables 9.6 and 9.9 ) . |
| 9 | If there is any more pronounced preference in Japan for the long-term view , then part of the reason is surely connected to the expectation that managers are less likely to be rejected on the basis of short-term dividend performance . |
| 10 | In male prisons , while homosexual relationships exist they are less likely to be tolerated if they involve truly loving feelings . |
| 11 | Everyone is a guest , non-Leeds fans are far less likely to be tolerated coming out with anti-Leeds stuff . |
| 12 | The voices of the young women who enter the criminal justice system are even less likely to be heard than those of their male counterparts . |
| 13 | Security can also be a problem here , so try to park in highly visible places which are less likely to be jammed by visitors ' cars just as you want to get home . |
| 14 | Although modern research has pointed out that women 's paid employment is underestimated by the available records ( in particular the census ) , since it was more irregular and less likely to be recorded than that of men , women 's choice of work was certainly in practice severely restricted , first and most crucially by what was effectively segregation by sex , secondly by local opportunities . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In 1940 , any refugee of military age was less likely to be called up than to be sent down , to an internment camp . |
| 17 | Of course , in the 1960s or 1970s they were less likely to be called projects : they were ‘ schemes ’ , or ‘ plans ’ , all very redolent of the ‘ planning ’ of the public sector , indeed of all economic life in those Wilsonian days . |
| 18 | Apart from choosing off peak travel less likely to be affected , these delays are outside our control , but we do our best to help . |
| 19 | The advantages are that manufacturing costs ( and final retail prices ) are kept down marginally , and the batteries are less likely to be affected by damp . |
| 20 | In the presence of chronic illness , the nutritional requirements for the greater and more sustained normal growth spurt are less likely to be met . |
| 21 | On the other hand , they are less likely to be apprehended or detained by the police for drug and/or non-drug offences . |
| 22 | Middle-class crimes , such as fraud or embezzlement , are far less likely to be discovered and reported . |
| 23 | It is important to bear in mind that there may be a significant amount of delinquency and crime amongst the middle classes , but we are less likely to be made aware of it . |
| 24 | Narrow staircases , infested with mouse droppings , where those who had no money whatsoever huddled on the steps for shelter , coming like wraiths in the night when they were less likely to be turned away , and drifting off again in the early morning . |
| 25 | Small streams tend to give more uniform supplies than rivers because they are less likely to be contaminated , and storage in reservoirs tends to provide uniformity . |
| 26 | The work had changed in the post-war period , and women were less likely to be employed now at setting pages of books . |
| 27 | Character models are less likely to be hit as they tend to have higher initiative values . |
| 28 | It has a steadier will less likely to be tainted by bias , weakness or impetuosity , less likely to be diverted from right reason by temptations or pressures . |
| 29 | Children who travel to school by bus or coach are 20 times less likely to be injured in an accident than when they travel by car . |
| 30 | Checking his watch he saw it was time to swim back to the canoe and his rendezvous with Roger Courtney , who had been paddling offshore for the last few hours , keeping the canoe head or stern towards the beach so that it was less likely to be seen . |