Example sentences of "[adv] likely [prep] be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , the fact that women are less mobile than men and more confined to the home means that they are less likely to be exposed to situations which lack effective informal social controls . |
| 2 | This meant that people were less likely to be lost to follow-up , because reviews were more likely to take place . |
| 3 | Recent changes in adult leisure behaviour meant that youths were less likely to be accompanied to the game by older male relatives who had previously ‘ educated ’ them in terms of the appropriate way to behave . |
| 4 | In the case of the biography the author is even less likely to be attracted to writing at second hand about a nobody , and what is more , he has a completely open field of all the somebodies that he chooses to tackle . |
| 5 | But they did not get more help from community nurses and they were less likely to be admitted to , or to die in , a hospital or hospice . |
| 6 | Data in Table 2 suggest that those with living brothers or sisters may be less likely to be admitted to a home . |
| 7 | Then they are most likely to be forced to the surface by lack of water . |
| 8 | It is these people who are most difficult to place and who are most likely to be returned to institutions ( Sutter et al. , 1980 ; Intagliata and Willer , 1982 ; Vitello et al. , 1983 ) , where they are likely to remain unpopular patients who are avoided by staff ( Grant and Moores , 1977 ; Raynes , 1980 ) . |
| 9 | They are most likely to be attached to primary schools in areas of social need , or to special schools . |
| 10 | The generalised and longer-term values of the former are always likely to be seen to a disadvantage against the more immediate and more publicly ‘ acceptable ’ benefits of the latter . |
| 11 | The choice of items of furniture and equipment , and their arrangement within rooms , is more likely to be related to work carried out in the home , to the use of the home as a place for leisure and entertainment , or to its value as a symbol of status in society . |
| 12 | Twins are more likely to be born to older mothers who already have several children ; they are likely to be born prematurely and/or have difficult births . |
| 13 | Indeed , their different uses have been investigated by Sanford , Moar & Garrod ( 1988 ; Garrod & Sanford 1990 ) , who showed that pronominal references in continuations are more likely to be made to proper-named characters , and that characters introduced by proper name are more easily accessed for anaphoric reference , as indexed by self-paced reading time . |
| 14 | Local authority loans for house purchase are more likely to be made to manual groups and they tend to concentrate on the purchase of older dwellings . |
| 15 | Under the New Poor Law practice , unmarried mothers were always more likely to be sent to the workhouse than granted outdoor relief , and once there were left in no doubt of their shameful condition . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Hence black youth is subject to closer surveillance and control by the police , a form of policing more likely to generate further offences and more likely to be diverted to the juvenile bureau . |
| 18 | The Old School Fool is more likely to be listening to The KLF than The Disc Four . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She positively reinforced this new behaviour making it more likely to be repeated to the point where it became a problem . |
| 21 | Infants of parents who smoke are more likely to be admitted to hospital for bronchitis and pneumonia in the first year of life . |
| 22 | It also means that the research door is more likely to be opened to us ( and to other researchers ) the next time . |
| 23 | Staff were more likely to be reduced to selling snacks during break , which was much less profitable than computing services and much more demeaning for academics . |
| 24 | Not only is the social distance between service providers and clients reduced but service practices are more likely to be adapted to local needs when paraprofessionals are employed in front-line service roles . |
| 25 | Although fewer people develop presenile Alzheimer 's disease , such patients are more likely to be known to the health service than older sufferers . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Support calls are now more likely to be directed to the software manufacturer or one of the independent organisations such as a User Group . |
| 28 | more likely to be taken to court and , in some cases to prison , once they have broken the law ; and |
| 29 | Although working people are now more likely to be contributing to an occupational or personal pension , even in future years not all people will have been able to accumulate sufficient provision to support themselves in retirement — for example those people who have not worked for many years because they were unemployed or disabled or caring for relatives . |
| 30 | Sometimes these triggering events are related to physical ageing , but are just as likely to be related to personal changes , such as a death in the family . |