Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] likely to [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This technique shows the entities most likely to be mentioned by the reader and , hence , indicates which entities predominate for various reasons . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In cases like this , the solution is to choose for teaching the words most likely to be needed by your pupils . |
| 4 | In other words the candidates most likely to be nominated if they so wish will be those who were nominated and became TDs at the previous general election . |
| 5 | Speeches after the ceremony ( although best man/ bride 's father not essential ; speeches more likely to be made by bride and groom themselves — they 're old enough , after all ) . |
| 6 | For instance past spending behaviour is always likely to be a factor in practice , with departments which have been reliable spenders more likely to be given funds than those who have been allocated money but not spent it . |
| 7 | Prisoners who do not of necessity have to be detained for the protection of the public are in some cases more likely to be made into decent citizens if , before completing the whole of their sentence , they are released under supervision with a liability to recall if they do not behave . |
| 8 | Suicide was the biggest cause of death , but the homeless are also 150 times more likely to be killed in an assault . |
| 9 | MERSEYSIDE youngsters are 100 times more likely to be injured by fireworks than the government admits , according to a report published today . |
| 10 | Here , motorists are now three times more likely to be breathalysed than in 1978 , and around 2,000 drivers are prosecuted every week . |
| 11 | A report prepared by the Australian Institute of Criminology published on Oct. 23 , 1989 , showed that an Aboriginal was 28 times more likely to be sent to prison than a white person . |
| 12 | So we are 60 times more likely to be struck by lightning than to die from salmonella ! |
| 13 | As a result , an accused person in Dorset ( for example ) is 10 times more likely to be remanded in custody than a similar person in Bedfordshire . |
| 14 | As a result in some parts of the country you 're three times more likely to be cautioned than in others . |
| 15 | In 1983 , for example , men working full time were three times more likely to be covered than were men working part time . |
| 16 | The last similar study , published in 1982 , had indicated that Aboriginals were 14 times more likely to be imprisoned than non-Aboriginals . |
| 17 | An inquiry into the referral and suspension of Afro-Caribbean pupils from Birmingham schools recorded that they were almost four times more likely to be suspended from secondary schools as white pupils ; even when the main reason for expulsion was common to both white and black pupils , the latter were more likely to be suspended and the inquiry alluded to a considerable level of hostility , mistrust and ‘ cultural misunderstanding ’ as between black pupils and white teachers ( CRE , 1985 ; see also Driver , 1979 ) . |
| 18 | Not only is the purpose for which the consumer buys consumer goods more likely to be known to the seller ( particularly by implication ) but it is far more likely that the consumer will rely on the seller 's judgment and skill . |
| 19 | Retarded children were over three times as likely to be disturbed as children in the comparison group ( 23 per cent versus 7 per cent ) . |
| 20 | Younger people are on average thirteen times as likely to be assaulted as people in the over 45 years of age category . |
| 21 | His life expectancy is falling and he is seven times as likely to be murdered as a white boy . |
| 22 | Mr Blunkett had been reviewing some of the scientific evidence about the connection between deprivation and ill health or premature death , and immediately before your intervention had referred to children in social class 5 being six times as likely to be burnt or knocked down in accidents as those in social class 1 . |
| 23 | Nonetheless a study by DG II ( Social Europe 1988 ) does allow us to isolate the characteristics of those industries and regions most likely to be affected by the completion of the SEM ( Table 2 ) . |
| 24 | Leaflet IR 33 , Income Tax and School Leavers , contains a brief description of the tax system and those features most likely to be encountered by young people . |
| 25 | They interpret the studies as showing that not only are central details more likely to be attended to in the arousal condition , but that since even when only one eye fixation is permitted the same results occur , there must be differences in the processing of arousing material in addition to the original attentional effect . |
| 26 | In a society such as ours , populations more likely to be controlled in part through criminalization , |
| 27 | Protozoans most likely to be encountered are Ichthyobodo , Chilodonella and Trichodina , all of which are at their most dangerous in early spring , as they are more temperature-tolerant than their hosts , and can soon overwhelm a Koi coming out of semi-dormancy . |
| 28 | In which forum is your version of events most likely to be accepted ? |