Example sentences of "[am/are] more likely [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they 're more likely to bump into the Great Dragon of the North Sea , or Half Tan the Black , alias John Cleese . |
| 2 | On the other hand critics of the consensus within the Labour and the Conservative parties are more likely to point to the failures of political will , courage , persistence , and policy preparation by their respective leaderships as explanations for the convergence . |
| 3 | Feeling reflective and pensive we are more likely to reach for a sensitive ultramarine or restful cobalt than a stinging chrome yellow or vivid lime . |
| 4 | I venture to suggest you are more likely to turn to the books of both authors after reading their contributions in Esquire . |
| 5 | There are invariably more mature female goats around than males , and the inference is that the males , as a result of their arduous rut , are more likely to die during the winter . |
| 6 | The study suggests that women under 50 with breast cancer are more likely to die from the disease if it is first picked up by mammograms than if they discover the lump by feeling their breasts . |
| 7 | Firstly , it does seem that consumers are more likely to succeed in an assertion that a clause is unreasonable than a commercial undertaking . |
| 8 | Such crops get away earlier in the spring and are more likely to ripen before the autumn rains . |
| 9 | It also seems that applications to the tribunal selected for a pre-hearing assessment are more likely to proceed to a hearing than other cases , while at the same time the success rate for those who proceed in the face of an ‘ unlikely to succeed ’ warning is not very different from other cases ( DoE , 1988 ) . |
| 10 | When you telephone someone you are more likely to intrude at an inconvenient time and not realize it . |
| 11 | Thus , while middle-class women are more likely to object to the label ‘ housewife ’ on grounds of its low status , there is a general tendency for downward mobility on the status dimension — from paid work to the job of housewife — to be associated with present dissatisfaction . |
| 12 | In summary , therefore , different solutions are more likely to arise between the NPV and IRR methods when one or more of the following conditions exist : |
| 13 | Problems are more likely to arise from an increase in the number of small enquiries which generate only a modest income but which impinge on the time of core staff . |
| 14 | Voters who live in class-specific communities are more likely to vote for the relevant class-specific party than are those not living in such communities . |
| 15 | Text readings around this position are more likely to result in a complete abandonment of the reading on the grounds that too much effort is required to make sense of the story . |
| 16 | This is a village of wide gabled houses , every one with window boxes full of colourful flowers ; of streets where you are more likely to come across a lumbering hay cart in no hurry at all , rather than an impatient motorist blasting his horn at everything in his way , and of friendly locals . |
| 17 | This is due probably to the fact that people suffering from aphasia are more likely to come to the attention of a neurologist than individuals suffering from certain kinds of right hemisphere damage which may pass unnoticed by the individual himself such that he does not seek medical attention or is not referred for neurological investigation . |
| 18 | Different horses communicate in different ways , although those that live together or are of the same family are more likely to communicate in the same way . |
| 19 | Vary what you do , so that you are more likely to stick to a regular programme . |
| 20 | Not only does this mean that you are more likely to get at the truth , but it is also likely to be more fruitful for whatever purpose you have in mind . |
| 21 | The first part of the Book of Daniel ( approximately chapters 1–6 ) and the Books of Esther and Judith are more likely to belong to the third than to the second century B.C. They combine edification with entertainment . |
| 22 | Nay-sayers are more likely to surface in the middle than at the beginning because now the project is more of a threat , more a challenge to their own perceived status . |
| 23 | Occupational pensions are more likely to contribute to the incomes of ‘ better off ’ pensioners . |
| 24 | MARRIAGES which involve a partner who has been married before are more likely to end in the divorce courts than ones between two people who have never before been up the aisle . |
| 25 | We are more likely to operate with a rather loose form of inferencing which leads us to believe that the hats and coats mentioned in ( 8 ) belong to visitors to the house which has the dresser in its kitchen . |
| 26 | Alternatives to custody are more likely to pull into the system , new populations rather than reduce incarcerated ones . |
| 27 | Italian salami often contain a mixture of pork and beef , whereas the French are more likely to keep to a pure pork sausage . |
| 28 | Once you have learned to see the difference between your own three Faces , you are more likely to look behind the mask presented by others and to understand them better . |