Example sentences of "were less likely [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Professional footballers fared little better than cricketers and were less likely to be able to pursue their occupation for as long . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ( 1988 ) found that few married people applied for residential care and those who did so were less likely to be admitted than applicants who were single or widowed . |
| 4 | For instance it might be suggested that action sample clients were less likely to be admitted straight away to long-term institutional care than control sample clients , for service-providers might have felt that with the Home Support Project such clients could be sustained at home whereas in its absence in the control areas they were not sustainable . |
| 5 | Jane Bradford , head of NatWest 's small business service , said people who had been unemployed possibly took more care over the initial planning , or were less likely to be optimistic than those who had quit their jobs . |
| 6 | Interestingly enough , the LGS samples from the Phase 1 unions were less likely to be dangerous than the samples from the Phase 2 unions , despite the fact that the Phase 2 unions had been visited by the Oral Replacement Workers in the previous year whereas two years had passed since the Phase 1 unions had been visited . |
| 7 | People of European origin were less likely to be tortured than black people . |
| 8 | Thus paradoxically organisational loyalties as such were less likely to be the source of permanent , unchanging estrangement of abolitionists from each other . |
| 9 | Consequently , it is possible that these new users were less likely to be caught by the police . |
| 10 | In as far as they were less likely to be increasingly forced to resort to bribery to obtain scant food supplies at a time when the official ration was totally inadequate , farmers were better off than their urban counterparts . |
| 11 | Because of their youth and vulnerability , and since they were less likely to be union members , apprentices and turnovers might be persuaded by employers to carry on working during a strike . |
| 12 | The work had changed in the post-war period , and women were less likely to be employed now at setting pages of books . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | In the more difficult political conditions in which a Labour leader has to operate when in opposition , appeals for restraint were less likely to be effective … ’ |
| 15 | They had more job security and were less likely to be laid off or made redundant . |
| 16 | As for the residence requirement , despite the fact that it applied in the same way to British nationals , it constituted covert discrimination on grounds of nationality in so far as , by the very nature of things , nationals of other member states were less likely to be ‘ resident ’ in the United Kingdom than British citizens . |
| 17 | Nor , at least for the manufacturing sector where the argument would seem most relevant , was there any evidence that more capital intensive establishments were less likely to be making use of such workers . |
| 18 | A number of indicators suggested that where activity levels were declining temporary workers were less likely to be used . |
| 19 | Thus , establishments with declining output , falling overtime and declining employment levels were less likely to use temporary workers or , more precisely , were less likely to be using fixed-term contract workers . |
| 20 | Both the 1985 GHS ( Green , 1988 ) and McLaughlin 's ( 1991 ) study of the invalid care allowance ( ICA ) found that women who had ceased to care within the previous twelve months were less likely to be in employment than their non-carer peers . |
| 21 | A pilot study was carried out to test the hypothesis that British trained doctors with foreign sounding names were less likely to be shortlisted . |
| 22 | Working-class children in general were less likely to first learn about sex from parents , and it is less likely that they have positive relationships with their teachers . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Black prisoners had fewer previous convictions than white prisoners sentenced for the same type of offence and were less likely to be granted bail . |
| 25 | This meant that people were less likely to be lost to follow-up , because reviews were more likely to take place . |
| 26 | Narrow staircases , infested with mouse droppings , where those who had no money whatsoever huddled on the steps for shelter , coming like wraiths in the night when they were less likely to be turned away , and drifting off again in the early morning . |
| 27 | In the study ( Levinger & Clark , 1961 ) emotional words were shown to produce higher fluctuations in galvanic skin response ( GSR ) than non-emotional ones , free-associates produced to these words were less likely to be subsequently recalled than associates of non-emotional words produced at the same time . |
| 28 | Studies in Europe for instance show that er in populations which experienced starvation during World War Two such as the Netherlands , the rate of fraternal twinning dropped dramatically during the war , but then recovered to its pre-war level after the war , and this strongly suggests that the rate of fraternal twinning was related to how much food women were eating , and when they were starved they were less likely to two eggs than when they were fell fed . |
| 29 | Henceforward , at least in theory , the highest echelons of society were less likely to be permeated by gifted but landless bureaucrats than they had been in the past . |
| 30 | Of course , in the 1960s or 1970s they were less likely to be called projects : they were ‘ schemes ’ , or ‘ plans ’ , all very redolent of the ‘ planning ’ of the public sector , indeed of all economic life in those Wilsonian days . |