Example sentences of "[adv] likely [prep] [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pre-school children are less likely to be dry by 3 years if they are anxious or depressed . |
| 2 | This policing function is less likely to be present in the case of a monopolist , which does not face direct product market pressure . |
| 3 | In general , the dirtier the receiving watercourse the less likely a discharge is to be defined as polluting , since the pollutant is less likely to have any measurable impact on the stream , less likely to be visible in already dirty water , and less likely to produce any noticeable ill-effects upon already scarce fish , plant , or animal life . |
| 4 | The National Child Development Study report on disadvantaged children identified children from one-parent families with low incomes and poor housing as less likely to be successful at school than other children ( Wedge and Prosser , 1973 ) . |
| 5 | Those young people undertaking YTS at colleges , or on community-based schemes , which were called mode B schemes , were less likely to be successful in entering the labour market when they graduated from their courses ( see the transcript of the BBC TV Panorama programme ‘ Fair play for Britain 's Blacks ’ , 6 July 1987 , p. 3 ) . |
| 6 | The House of Lords is less central to the nation 's affairs , less likely to be controversial in its activities and more courteous in the conduct of its proceedings . |
| 7 | The leadership also has a new control , which makes it less likely to be unhorsed by its own interest-groups than the Callaghan Government was in the late 1970s . |
| 8 | These firms will offer personal services : services that are less likely to be subject to automation . |
| 9 | Families are growing smaller and greater geographical mobility means that relatives are less likely to be close at hand in times of need . |
| 10 | In addition , Stemberger notes that lexical items from the closed class are less likely to be involved in sequencing errors ( in which lexical items occur in the wrong order in an utterance ) and in shift errors ( in which an item appears either too early or too late in an utterance ) . |
| 11 | This project aims to examine whether certain categories of statemented special needs children are more , or less likely to be involved in bully/victim problems within 8 mainstream schools in Sheffield ( 3 junior/middle and 5 secondary ) . |
| 12 | The IS902-PCR results may suggest that M avium subsp silvaticum is less likely to be involved in the pathogenesis of Crohn 's disease but may add to the significance of the IS900-PCR results . |
| 13 | Graduate husbands are less likely to be childless in their marriages than are graduate wives . |
| 14 | With the others not around , she will be less likely to be assertive to strange dogs . |
| 15 | A hostile article is even less likely to be satisfactory to a reader . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In fact , language , through abstraction , is a much more efficient form or communication and possesses much more control over its interpretation , and it is rather that this difference in evocation is less likely to be evident in artefactual symbolism than in linguistic symbolism . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Involuntary discharges through bankruptcy are though much less likely to be significant in larger firms where labour turnover is much more related to age . |
| 20 | There is no problem here if the information is very specialised and only likely to be useful to a few outlets . |
| 21 | Assuming that a capital gains tax liability is likely to arise , prima facie this will fall upon the husband as the conveying party or transferor ; this potential liability should be taken into account , but regard should be had to other reliefs : ( i ) " Hold-over " relief — Since the restriction of this relief by the Finance Act 1989 , s124 it is only likely to be available in business property transfer situations ( such as a guest house or nursing home ) ( see TCGA 1992 , s165 ) . |
| 22 | This is chiefly because the hard-core hooligan element attached to one soccer club is only likely to be interested in a confrontation with the opposition 's elite hooligan crew . |
| 23 | This is not only likely to be painful for him , but it undermines his stability , so that he can only walk slowly , with constant concentration , and he is much more likely to fall over if he has to change direction or if he is distracted . |
| 24 | Museums with exhibitions of art from other countries are especially likely to be respectful in commentaries on works of art which have been borrowed . |
| 25 | There was some indication , too , that the child who was showing signs of a helpless approach to life and one or more symptoms of childhood disturbance ( truanting , bedwetting , stealing , fearfulness and so on ) as well as experiencing a lack of care was especially likely to be depressed in adulthood ( Harris et al. , 1987c ) . |
| 26 | Raphael also suggests that bereaved parents who felt particularly unsupported themselves , lacking contact with the grandparents , for instance , were especially likely to be oblivious to , or deny , their children 's needs at this time . |
| 27 | Analysis of this problem is greatly facilitated by the fact that we can identify anatomically the subregions of the visual cortex most likely to be involved in colour vision . |
| 28 | We propose that in the phospho-free state of HPr , the open conformation of the active centre ( having residue 51 in the vicinity ) is the one most likely to be involved in the phosphotransfer process with enzyme I. But the actual interaction awaits the structure determination of enzyme I and , more relevantly , structure determination of the enzyme I/HPr complex . |
| 29 | I would be most likely to be extravagant on the following : |
| 30 | Germany : Although a law exists requiring employers to vaccinate healthcare workers , healthcare employees of small private practices are most likely to be unprotected against hepatitis B infection as many employers are ignoring the law |