Example sentences of "[am/are] much less likely to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are much less likely to be using mail order . |
| 2 | Because they live longer , women over 65 are much less likely to be living with their spouse than men of a similar age . |
| 3 | Semi-skilled and unskilled workers are much less likely to be able to buy their own house ( 26 per cent of unskilled workers are owner-occupiers , compared with 87 per cent of professional workers ) . |
| 4 | Non-words can not be read aloud at all ; abstract words like truth or equality are much less likely to be read aloud correctly than concrete words like blood or cathedral ; visual errors such as reading bush as ‘ brush ’ or forge as ‘ ford ’ occur ; function words , and the prefixes and suffixes on affixed words , cause particular difficulties . |
| 5 | If you do lose those links then you 're much less likely to be able to find a job in the future because still most jobs are actually found through personal contacts of one sort or another . |