Example sentences of "[adv] likely to be [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have talked in this book about the bereaved person 's need to talk and be recognized as someone having a mourning role , but if few people know us anyway , they are less likely to be aware of the major change in our life and we are less likely to feel able to talk to them about it . |
| 2 | Calcium If you are having a reasonable amount of dairy produce you are not likely to be short of calcium . |
| 3 | The clientele made a perfect captive audience and in the early autumn of Paula 's second year at the store the management decided to bring in models to show the new season 's fashions at the times when the restaurant was most likely to be full of ladies who had accounts with Jenkinsons and cheque books in their capacious handbags . |
| 4 | He meant by this that people are more likely to be convinced of the reality of the faith if our expression of it is coherent , sensible and entire . |
| 5 | Instead , their own households are more likely to be typical of the larger examples of the detached , the semi-detached and the bungalow , which are extended , in part through emulatory processes , to other sectors of our society with similar aspirations , to such a degree that these styles virtually command modern private development . |
| 6 | They were more likely to be aware of , or be deterred by , the health risks discussed earlier . |
| 7 | Because constituency boundaries are fixed on the basis of figures produced by the Registrars General , these officers are not subject to ministerial control and their publications are more likely to be free of such problems . |