Example sentences of "least likely to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of all Elinor 's friends he was the least likely to be suspected of her murder . |
| 2 | For example Bergmann et al , 1978 found that 38 per cent of a sample of 83 patients with organic mental disorder referred to a day hospital assessment unit lived alone ; and the authors concluded , after following up the sample for 12 months , that those who lived alone were least likely to be maintained at home for that period of time even with substantial support from social services , and recommended that resources should be concentrated on those who lived with their families . |
| 3 | The people least likely to be able to find £24–95 to buy the first set of reports on science teaching from the Assessment Performance Unit ( APU ) of the Department of Education and science * , the latest volume of which has just been published . |
| 4 | The people least likely to be able to find £24–95 to buy the first set of reports on science teaching from the Assessment Performance Unit ( APU ) of the Department of Education and science * , the latest volume of which has just been published . |
| 5 | General non-professional training was more likely to be specifically noted by Scottish libraries , and least likely to be noted by Inner London libraries . |
| 6 | In Britain , the government has yet to place its safer-sex advertising aimed at ‘ men who have sex with men ’ in non-gay publications , thus by-passing those men who do not identify as gay and so are least likely to be well-informed because of their minimal contact with the gay scene . |
| 7 | As ever , the people who will suffer from Labour 's failure are among those who are furthest removed from the political process ; who are most likely to believe that the outcome of the election has little to do with them ; and , hence , who are least likely to be taking part in the election postmortem on why Labour lost . |
| 8 | One of the items that is least likely to be individualised in hospital is the timing of meals . |
| 9 | The curious thing about industry is that if we think for ten minutes and draw a picture of the kind of organization we would least like to work in , and hence the one where we are least likely to be effective , we often look about and see just such an environment around us . |
| 10 | It would appear , on the face of it , that this problem of satisfying the two goals is least likely to be achieved in a monopoly situation . |
| 11 | People who see the world differently , and therefore need to communicate , both for mutual education and to avoid conflict , may seem the least likely to be able to do so . |
| 12 | Older women were least likely to be eligible because they had started working at the factory when the married women 's option ( i.e. to pay reduced NI contributions ) was in full operation and the majority had not considered it financially worthwhile to pay full contributions . |
| 13 | When in the 1960s poverty was ‘ rediscovered ’ in the UK , it became clear from research findings that those elderly people who had occupational retirement pensions derived from their previous employment were least likely to be living in poverty , as then defined . |
| 14 | The vulnerable persons whom it is the aim of the section to protect are precisely those least likely to be prepared to attend court to give evidence , if only for fear of later reprisals . |
| 15 | Single mothers and those with mental illnesses are the least likely to be able to establish their rights without government help . |
| 16 | Here the exclusion of liability is obviously least likely to be reasonable . |
| 17 | Thus , if only four-plot blocks are available , we could have the following : The reader can check that the only one of the seven comparisons that is confounded is the NPK interaction and this is the least likely to be important . |