Example sentences of "[adv] likely to be [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | they are less likely to be objects of suspicion and distrust . |
| 2 | Since women are much less likely than men to be employed full-time , to be in highly paid secure jobs or to hold managerial or professional posts , they are less likely to be members of occupational pension schemes . |
| 3 | In a similar fashion , and as Tables 3.6 and 3.7 show , establishments where the workforce is declining , both in the long-term and the short-term , are less likely to be users of fixed-term contract workers . |
| 4 | Declining markets are therefore not likely to be receivers of major investment even if current returns are high . |
| 5 | All these correlations of course come from mean values for stimuli aggregated across subjects and are thus likely to be overestimates of the true size of any effect in individual subjects ( Guilford & Fruchter 1973 , Dunlap , Jones & Bittner 1983 ) . |
| 6 | It has now been established that the identified client , the vulnerable elderly person referred to a social service department is most likely to be part of an interlocking network of friends , relatives and neighbours , carers and support services . |
| 7 | Manufacturing establishments were more likely to be users of agency workers , service establishments of fixed-term contract workers , although this difference was solely a consequence of the practices of public sector service establishments . |
| 8 | Moreover , they are more likely to be members of an occupational pension scheme and those contributions attract tax relief , whereas contributions to the state scheme do not . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's more likely to be part of the marching camp , latrines or a workshop . ’ |
| 10 | Erm I 'm not sure what time yet but erm it 's more likely to be sort of just before lunch or just sort of or maybe just after lunch or round four o'clock I try to keep the younger ones earlier so they 're not you know it 's not |
| 11 | Idiosyncratic gestures , such as an individual 's habit of tossing back a strand of hair , are more likely to be signals of personal character or state of mind which are transmitted unintentionally and unconsciously . |
| 12 | ‘ Young men are far more likely to be victims of violent crime than women and the risks of being raped by a stranger are very small indeed ( approximately one in 25,000 ) but most women would put the risk at a lot higher . |
| 13 | They are inclined to be retiring , anxious and solitary and are far more likely to be victims of crime than perpetrators . |
| 14 | And er more likely to be people of a nervous disposition . |
| 15 | Women were more likely to be consumers of healthy alternatives . |
| 16 | The systems development team will include the chief analyst and the database administrator who are both likely to be members of the systems planning team . |
| 17 | It 's hard to divine the facts of her early life since her autobiography , Lady Sings The Blues , is full of tawdry details which are as likely to be figments of a pulp imagination as they are the truth : the way she tells it , she was routinely mistreated and beaten , recruited for a brothel and more or less saved only by a small talent for holding a tune . |
| 18 | Although this method fulfils the requirement that all animals are equally likely to be part of the study , we have no control over sample size ; if herd A is chosen then there will be 36 cattle in the study whereas for herd C there will be only 6 . |