Example sentences of "[conj] be [adv] likely to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jane Bradford , head of NatWest 's small business service , said people who had been unemployed possibly took more care over the initial planning , or were less likely to be optimistic than those who had quit their jobs . |
| 2 | They say that no need has been proven or is ever likely to be . |
| 3 | Soil and climate , which should be taken together , determine the land potential ( see Chapter 2 ) and largely dictate the main types of farming — arable , stock-rearing , fattening , dairying , etc. — that are most likely to be viable . |
| 4 | Think about the mark points that are most likely to be indicated on the map : village churches , tumuli and ‘ castle mounds ’ , stone circles and standing stones , wayside crosses and beacon sites . |
| 5 | This is most easily done by having the students ask appropriate questions and become familiar with the answers that are most likely to be given . |
| 6 | These firms will offer personal services : services that are less likely to be subject to automation . |
| 7 | And adopting this gender-differentiated methodology involves accepting that there are stable , homogeneous relationships between women and subjectivity , and between men and objectivity : connections that are more likely to be ideological than biological . |
| 8 | A study carried out by Kerr for the Department of the Environment found that it was the better properties with gardens that were most likely to be bought ( especially three-bedroomed , semi-detached houses ) while the number of flats purchased remained small . |
| 9 | ‘ Big science ’ on the model provided by Paris required funds that were only likely to be provided by governments , and some governments were more willing than others to get involved . |
| 10 | As the killer strikes at the retreating reptile it is the victim 's tail that is most likely to be caught in claws or jaws . |
| 11 | The question which organization is best fitted to undertake a particular project should be determined not only by considerations of relative expertise and resources but also by reference to the type of instrument that is most likely to be effective . |
| 12 | Given the decline of rural rail and bus routes ( chapter 6 ) , it is private transport that is most likely to be important , and access to cars and motorbikes is highly selective in terms of age , sex , income and social class . |
| 13 | The Skil 1865U is a mid-range model that is more likely to be found in the independent tool stores than the d-i-y sheds . |
| 14 | One of the items that is least likely to be individualised in hospital is the timing of meals . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | Yet older people tend to occupy the oldest , poorest housing and are more likely to be private tenants than other groups . |
| 17 | Another is that if resident farmers are to undertake the planting , management and felling of forests , surpluses accrue and are more likely to be reinvested locally . |
| 18 | The main concentrations of the elderly are therefore outside the metropolitan regions , and are more likely to be located in small towns than in villages or the open countryside — which tends to lack the public transport and range of local services that are important to elderly persons . |
| 19 | These will be much less expensive on postage charges , and are more likely to be true to name . |
| 20 | Consequently they attend for.treatment late , reluctantly , often unwillingly , and are more likely to be treated in locked or secure settings as their fear leads to aggression , violence and a cycle of anxiety and rejection by staff . |
| 21 | Local people are familiar with the traditions and concerns of their community and are more likely to be trusted . |
| 22 | Both methods rely upon users recalling their library behaviour patterns , and are therefore likely to be inaccurate to some degree . |
| 23 | Many non-insulin-dependent subjects are overweight and are therefore likely to be hyperinsulinaemic as a result of insulin resistance . |
| 24 | Therapeutic systems which disregard the more subtle aspects of the individual are likely to miss some at least of the precipitating factors in disease causation and are therefore likely to be less effective in treatment . |
| 25 | Hospital outpatient clinics are better : many people attend regularly , precisely because they do have chronic illness and are therefore likely to be disabled . |
| 26 | Our study lends credence to the recent report of a family with many affected family members with only two to 40 colonic polyps , who were shown to be linked to the APC locus and are therefore likely to be carrying a mutation of this gene . |
| 27 | The shapes were 6.3° tall and on average 2.2° wide , and were equally likely to be red or green . |
| 28 | This tied up with the number who had breeding stock and were therefore likely to be needed as assistants at a calving or lambing . |
| 29 | Although it was not possible to evaluate the completeness of the sickness absence records directly , the records were used for pay purposes and were therefore likely to be complete for most participants . |
| 30 | Professional footballers fared little better than cricketers and were less likely to be able to pursue their occupation for as long . |