Example sentences of "[adv] likely to be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , in line with students as a whole , SERC specialists were also less likely to be seeking employment than those who studied on conversion Advanced Courses . |
| 2 | Grandchildren do not appear on Qureshi and Simons 's ( 1987 ) hierarchy of preferred carers , indicating that they are very much a minority group subsumed under ‘ other relatives ’ and therefore much less likely to be providing personal care than their parents ' generation . |
| 3 | They are much less likely to be using mail order . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In line with what we had expected was the finding that establishments where the level of output , the amount of overtime being worked and the number of persons employed was falling were rather less likely to be using fixed-term contract workers . |
| 6 | ( As migrants were already on courses they may be less likely to be thinking of taking up another one at present . ) |
| 7 | Because they live longer , women over 65 are much less likely to be living with their spouse than men of a similar age . |
| 8 | As expected , they are also less likely to own or to be buying their house , less likely to be living in council accommodation and more likely to be renting furnished accommodation . |
| 9 | No really clear picture was distinguishable , except for private manufacturing establishments where , as Table 3.8 suggests , establishments making less use of overtime are also less likely to be making use of fixed-term contract workers . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Nonetheless , the farmers could have bought at a slightly higher price certified seed , which , being certified , was less likely to be suffering from the virus which affected the seed actually bought . |
| 12 | But they often make the mistake of putting them up at crusades when they are only likely to be preaching their simple message to the converted . |
| 13 | It is coming from a region where the mean velocity is smaller and it is thus likely to be moving downstream more slowly than its new environment ; i.e. it is more likely to have negative u than positive . |
| 14 | People who eat large quantities of such foods , and who also live in regions where nitrate levels in water are high — such as East Anglia — are most likely to be taking in nitrates above EC safety levels . |
| 15 | Now I think in our experience so far we find that erm the accounts clerks in the back office are those who are most likely to be bashing away at the character terminals , those are the people who are bashing data into the system . |
| 16 | Young single women with children are overwhelmingly likely to be living in local authority housing , and those who married early and/or had a pre-marital conception are more likely to do so as well . |
| 17 | I do n't even know you , so I 'm hardly likely to be harbouring some secret grudge against you ! ’ |
| 18 | You 've been peevish , arrogant , downright rude on most occasions that we 've met , so I 'm hardly likely to be labouring under any illusions , am I ? ’ |
| 19 | Though if he took his own life , as everyone has always supposed , and as we are still likely to be supposing after the present rumours have been scotched — if the balance of his mind was disturbed , that curious disruption which accompanies a man 's election to end his life , but never any other procedure , no matter how eccentric or irrational — then reasons are not to be looked for . |
| 20 | Although things have picked up in the last six months , the work is more likely to be restructuring , rights issues or corporate rescues . |
| 21 | As expected , they are also less likely to own or to be buying their house , less likely to be living in council accommodation and more likely to be renting furnished accommodation . |
| 22 | They 're much more likely to be acting out of self interest . |
| 23 | Whilst the nationalised industries appear similar to private manufacturing industry , employers in public administration are more likely to be using workers hired on fixed-term contracts . |
| 24 | Male callers however are far more likely to be looking for easy solutions to a debt problem , usually a further loan or re-mortgage which in the long term will often make the problem worse . |
| 25 | Students who had studied IT at a polytechnic were rather less likely to be In employment or to be continuing their studies than their university peers , and more likely to be looking for employment ( Table 4.2 ) . |
| 26 | Lone parent families are more likely to be living in poverty than two parent families . |
| 27 | Older children are more likely to be living with step-parents ; 5% of under fives lived with step-parents in 1985 , compared with 12% of those aged 10–15 . |
| 28 | Both tables show control sample clients doing better in home care : spending less time altogether in an institution , and being more likely to be living at home at the end of the two time periods . |
| 29 | We know that in general women who have been married ( that is , separated divorced or widowed ) are more likely to be living with their own parents than those who currently are married ( Martin and Roberts , 1984 ) . |
| 30 | She is able to show that both women and men are much more likely to be living with relatives after a marriage has ended than during it . |