Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] likely [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Involuntary discharges through bankruptcy are though much less likely to be significant in larger firms where labour turnover is much more related to age . |
| 2 | Semi-skilled and unskilled workers are much less likely to be able to buy their own house ( 26 per cent of unskilled workers are owner-occupiers , compared with 87 per cent of professional workers ) . |
| 3 | If you do lose those links then you 're much less likely to be able to find a job in the future because still most jobs are actually found through personal contacts of one sort or another . |
| 4 | That next-door neighbour dabbler you are so concerned about is much more likely to be involved in the ‘ soft-occult ’ , and may still be open to a little reasoning . |
| 5 | A bisyllabic pet name could be either male or female , but a monosyllabic one is much more likely to be male . |
| 6 | Of course , these are not the abilities which we pride ourselves upon , and we are much more likely to be impressed by the few things which computers do well which we do badly . |
| 7 | Giving up smoking together too is much more likely to be successful than if you have to struggle alone . |
| 8 | But it 's much more likely to be due to human error . |
| 9 | Those with orange eyes are much more likely to be able to hear . |
| 10 | However , a mother who is in contact with her baby immediately after delivery is much more likely to be able to do this than one who is not given her baby until a few hours after the birth . |
| 11 | Male dysfunction due to fear or anxiety about such a condition is much more likely to be responsible ; and female dysfunction or dissatisfaction is often mistakenly thought to be due to it when the true causes lie elsewhere . |
| 12 | They were also much more likely to be unemployed — whilst 30 per cent of the white 16 — 19 year olds were out of work , 46 per cent of the West Indians and 35 per cent of the Asians in the same age group were . |
| 13 | Management is on much stronger ground in doing so , and the results are much more likely to be fair . |
| 14 | On the other hand , there were much more likely to be single children still living at home . |
| 15 | Here the exclusion of liability is obviously least likely to be reasonable . |
| 16 | The failure of such experiments to demonstrate any effect of homoeopathic remedies is therefore just as likely to be due to inappropriate remedy selection for the model under study as to the possibility that the remedy really is inactive , or that homoeopathy is just a load of fantasy , wishful thinking and mumbo jumbo . |
| 17 | To make matters worse , there is no evidence that lack of spending by social services is compensated for by increased NHS spending , or vice versa ; indeed , the financial allocation seems just as likely to be low from both authorities , as it has been , for example , in the London Borough of Lambeth , or very good in both authorities , as traditionally has been the case in Newcastle . |
| 18 | But they are just as likely to be white , middle-class , and middle-aged . |
| 19 | Furthermore , it suggest that those people who had become unemployed because of a temporary job coming to an end were just as likely to be unemployed for only a short spell and then to go back to work , and that they were less likely to have been continuously unemployed throughout the following year ( Moylan/Millar/Davies , 1984 ) . |
| 20 | The original juice may be from cider apples , but it is just as likely to be imported eating apple juice concentrate . |
| 21 | Temporary workers are rather more likely to be self-employed than is the generality of the labour force . |
| 22 | Those who were particularly interested in politics or discussed politics , read highbrow papers or watched television news , were a little more likely to be able to name some issues ( any issues ! ) as the main themes being stressed by the parties , but the level of predictability was low . |
| 23 | Those who were interested in politics or discussed politics , read highbrow papers or watched television news , were a little more likely to be able to name some issues as the main themes being stressed by the parties . |
| 24 | It follows that working-class people have benefited from this , but they are still more likely to be overcrowded than non-manual groups . |
| 25 | Control of the flow of official information to newspapers and agencies and the giving of carefully orchestrated interviews to foreign correspondents were now usually more likely to be effective in moulding opinion than the mere spending of money ; and France , with its plethora of small , financially insecure and often venal newspapers , was something of a special case . |
| 26 | Realism is a technique which , being known from childhood reading , never needs to be consciously studied , and certainly the effort required to compose a corpus of novels , like the noteworthy succession of Anita Brookner romances that began with A Start in Life ( 1981 ) , is always more likely to be emotional than technical . |
| 27 | The typical visitor ( paying an adult admission charge of £23 ) is probably less likely to be interested in the architecture of the pavilions than in their contents . |
| 28 | Bureaucratic co-operations probably more likely to be available than money in the next few years ! |
| 29 | In this context a clause limiting remedies — for example , excluding or limiting the retailer 's right to reject the goods , is probably more likely to be reasonable , than a wider clause excluding liability , especially where a total exclusion would have the effect of requiring the retailer to satisfy product liability claims arising where the goods prove defective due to the manufacturer 's negligence . |
| 30 | Young people are also more likely to be sensitive to the high price of tobacco products . |