Example sentences of "[adv] as likely to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Articles on this sort of theme may appear in art periodicals , but are just as likely to be found in other journals , on literature , say , or history . |
| 2 | When they were not fighting each other , the kings and caliphs were just as likely to be seeking each other 's protection or vassalage . |
| 3 | He 's just as likely to be found talking to a six-strong student society in Bangor as addressing 500 top Earth scientists in Washington ; he will have a drink with ( and on ) me just as readily ( or so he makes it appear ) as he will have lunch with ( and no doubt on ) the director of the US National Science Foundation ; if he 's not corresponding with some editor over some esoteric point of science , he 's trying to persuade the high-ups at the European Space Agency to do something adventurous in planetology for a change . |
| 4 | The failure of such experiments to demonstrate any effect of homoeopathic remedies is therefore just as likely to be due to inappropriate remedy selection for the model under study as to the possibility that the remedy really is inactive , or that homoeopathy is just a load of fantasy , wishful thinking and mumbo jumbo . |
| 5 | The night shift was no trouble to me if Nigel was at home , but he was just as likely to be thousands of miles away , doing something with lighthouses . |
| 6 | But they are just as likely to be white , middle-class , and middle-aged . |
| 7 | The original juice may be from cider apples , but it is just as likely to be imported eating apple juice concentrate . |
| 8 | Thus , Stevie Wonder and Al Green are just as likely to be cited as influences alongside the likes of Soul II Soul or Public Enemy . |
| 9 | Moreover , while the engineers tended to work on or near the shop-floor , today 's scientific and technical professionals are just as likely to be located far from actual production . |
| 10 | Communication links between the ‘ explorers ’ and the ‘ implementers ’ need to be strong , although they are just as likely to be based on informal as distinct from formal communications patterns and networks . |
| 11 | Cause : Irritation — but this is just as likely to be from something in the water as from flukes or protozoan parasites . |
| 12 | Furthermore , it suggest that those people who had become unemployed because of a temporary job coming to an end were just as likely to be unemployed for only a short spell and then to go back to work , and that they were less likely to have been continuously unemployed throughout the following year ( Moylan/Millar/Davies , 1984 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | There is some evidence that parents of low intelligence tend to produce children of low intelligence but this is not invariably the case and , where it is , it is just as likely to be as a result of environmental deprivation as of heredity . |
| 15 | To make matters worse , there is no evidence that lack of spending by social services is compensated for by increased NHS spending , or vice versa ; indeed , the financial allocation seems just as likely to be low from both authorities , as it has been , for example , in the London Borough of Lambeth , or very good in both authorities , as traditionally has been the case in Newcastle . |
| 16 | In the modern empirical study of politics , the emphasis upon psychological factors in explaining political behaviour is more frequently associated with Graham Walles , whose Human Nature in Politics showed that the political behaviour of individuals was just as likely to be the result of ‘ irrational ’ beliefs as of a rational' calculation of the benefits and penalties that may follow from such behaviour . |
| 17 | Experienced workers are just as likely to be killed as trainees . |
| 18 | An expensive project is just as likely to be in error as a cheap one . |
| 19 | Latterly it has become increasingly apparent that neighbouring small-scale communities , even when they are lumped together under the same " tribal " label , are just as likely to be sharply contrasted as they are to be very much the same . |
| 20 | Individual trees are just as likely to be harmfully overshadowed by members of their own species as by members of other species . |
| 21 | Those who had never acted in Guild Mysteries were just as likely to be accepted as those who had all the verses committed to memory . |
| 22 | They 're just as likely to be used against us as they are against you . |
| 23 | Among the small minority of combatants who found it difficult to adjust to civilian life after the war , who were anti-semitic , militantly anti-communist and concerned about the continued decline of Britain , individuals were almost as likely to be anti-fascist as supporters of fascism . |
| 24 | They are twice as likely to live in council housing , twice as likely to be supported by someone in class V ( if at all ) than in any other class ( Werner 1984 ) . |
| 25 | ‘ In every case , whatever the length or size , benefit was about twice as likely to be paid out in official strikes as in unofficial strikes . ’ |
| 26 | Though high blood pressure is a treatable risk with a higher prevalence and mortality in young men than young women , that study showed that even in the age group 40–44 young women were still more than twice as likely to be detected as men . |
| 27 | English applicants were twice as likely to be selected , and this difference would probably have been greater had we carried out the full study and been able to include posts in teaching hospitals . |
| 28 | The conversion men were also twice as likely to be continuing their studies . |
| 29 | For example , specialist students of control were almost twice as likely to be in work than those pursuing control in conversion mode . |
| 30 | Curiously , while there was no marked difference in opinion about bad language or violence between those who did or did not have children , viewers without children were almost twice as likely to be offended by sex scenes . |