Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] likely to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , there are too many complications to allow the conclusion that individuals were more or less likely to be receptive according to whether they were Protestant or Catholic . |
| 2 | This project aims to examine whether certain categories of statemented special needs children are more , or less likely to be involved in bully/victim problems within 8 mainstream schools in Sheffield ( 3 junior/middle and 5 secondary ) . |
| 3 | But there was not yet a drug invented , or ever likely to be , that could cope with all the different and complex actions and judgements that make up a round of tournament golf . |
| 4 | ‘ You were n't , ’ Leith assured him , but , while she wanted to tell him that she and Naylor were not engaged — or ever likely to be — she somehow found she could n't . |
| 5 | In such a world , the easy resolution of the ethical dilemma remains problematic , for as Anne Akeroyd ( 1984 : 134 ) recognizes ‘ there is not , nor ever likely to be any definitive agreement about the nature of either the problems or solutions [ facing the social scientist and the question of ethics ] ’ . |
| 6 | a doleful … sound heard before the deaths of may and most likely to be heard before foul weather . |
| 7 | There is no problem here if the information is very specialised and only likely to be useful to a few outlets . |
| 8 | I would prefer an analogue contents display because it is more eye-catching and less likely to be misread . |
| 9 | Although modern research has pointed out that women 's paid employment is underestimated by the available records ( in particular the census ) , since it was more irregular and less likely to be recorded than that of men , women 's choice of work was certainly in practice severely restricted , first and most crucially by what was effectively segregation by sex , secondly by local opportunities . |
| 10 | That is to say , it still remains the case that men of all social origins have become more likely to be found in service-class positions and less likely to be found in working-class ones . |
| 11 | Black juveniles are more likely to be prosecuted and less likely to be cautioned than white juveniles . |
| 12 | Black youth were more likely to be prosecuted and less likely to be cautioned than white youth . |
| 13 | Such families are also more likely to have dangerous forms of heating , and less likely to be insured against damage by fire . |
| 14 | Finally , the gas cylinder , designed to withstand extreme pressure , is much stronger and less likely to be ruptured in an accident than conventional fuel tanks . |
| 15 | If they could be spaced out a bit , then it would probably be easier and less likely to be trouble . |
| 16 | But the man was hard and not likely to be influenced unless he got a bargain . |
| 17 | We are looking for people who know their needs and wants , their likes and dislikes — but who are realistic about when they are likely and not likely to be fulfilled . |
| 18 | The last of these must be the overriding consideration ; it would be of little use to develop a unit on an unusual system not readily available to the target population in schools , and not likely to be available in the near future . |
| 19 | Firstly , their income is less likely than the rest of the population to come from earnings from employment ; and more likely to be derived from pensions from the state or from past employers or from savings . |
| 20 | And perhaps the greatest value of the video has been to reduce the time the average family spends watching the effluvia of television served up on the two main British television channels whose only role in the future looks more and more likely to be news and sports . |
| 21 | A causal interpretation of the bivariate effect would have been entirely faulty : it was purely a product of women being both more likely to be in low status jobs and more likely to be absent . |
| 22 | Actual attacks on humans are rare so far and more likely to be the work of strays than of truly feral animals . |
| 23 | We can add to our knowledge of the European from 1880 onwards the fact that he is more and more likely to be a city-dweller , and to live in an industrial city . |
| 24 | Properties are older and more likely to be terraced houses or flats ; they have fewer rooms but more people per room ; and they are less likely to have a garden . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | While we might indeed readily hypothesize that these individuals were generally less likely than Ballymacarrett people to be subject to the pressures of their personal networks and more likely to be subject to a less localized outside influence , it is hard to suggest dimensions on which a number of looseknit networks , which differed greatly from each other , might be systematically compared ( but see 5.7.4 for an account of Bortoni-Ricardo 's study of rural immigrants to a Brazilian city ) . |
| 27 | In addition to fronted , predicated , and identifying themes , other types of marked theme exist in English , but they tend to be much more restricted and more likely to be used in informal language . |
| 28 | Hence black youth is subject to closer surveillance and control by the police , a form of policing more likely to generate further offences and more likely to be diverted to the juvenile bureau . |
| 29 | Sentencing policies , as a result of law and order campaigns mean the prisoners are younger and more likely to be black . |
| 30 | Moreover , in the light of the Committee 's comment that consensual oral sex is extremely serious and more likely to be disturbing to a young girl than sexual intercourse , it would seem to follow that non-consensual oral sex is extremely serious and more likely to be disturbing than rape . |