Example sentences of "be [adv] likely [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , the project probably did not change schools , but change may have been most likely to occur in schools which were open to the innovation and to the ideas of equality presented by the project . |
| 2 | Well the people who are most likely to vote in local elections tend to be the people who in greater numbers , if you see what I mean , are more likely to vote in , in general elections . |
| 3 | Indeed it is when these statements strive to go beyond themselves to grasp the complexities of the phenomena to which they refer that they are most likely to resort to rhetorical devices . |
| 4 | These activities are most likely to appeal to the more methodical student wishing to follow a clear procedure . |
| 5 | It must have been very galling for Major , when he established membership of the A-Team to write the election manifesto , that he had to choose for it those very men who are most likely to profit from his failure . |
| 6 | The aid that we are most likely to use for the same reasons as video is the audio tape or cassette recorder . |
| 7 | Kestrels are popular with audiences at lectures , because they 're elegant little birds and also because , of all the British birds of prey , they 're the ones people are most likely to spot in the wild : they hover over motorways and are even seen in towns these days . |
| 8 | As it is from the children of the semi- and unskilled working class who leave school without any qualification that the underclass is being recruited , it is important to ask which children are most likely to fall into this category . |
| 9 | The evidence cited earlier shows that it is those from the poorest homes who are most likely to fall in either of these categories . |
| 10 | The report states that those who have lived on state pensions , income support or low pay , are most likely to live in the most energy-inefficient homes which are incapable of being heated to a minimum comfort standard . |
| 11 | Furthermore , if outside agencies — such as courts or social workers decide that socialization has in some way been inadequate , it is to the family that they are most likely to turn in the allocation of blame or responsibility . |
| 12 | The most fundamental events in people 's lives are strongly affected by their social class , ranging from their chances of surviving the first year of life through likely age of marriage and number of children to the kind of diseases they are most likely to die of ( Reid 1977 ) . |
| 13 | It is the small local business , as in the examples above of builders , carpenters and glaziers , who are most likely to balk at long-term clearance of a debt . |
| 14 | On average , the people who are most likely to opt for health insurance are those who know themselves to be relatively unhealthy . |
| 15 | Problems are most likely to arise for older workers where work is at a fast continuous pace , fixed at a pace suited to younger workers and over which the worker has no control , or where there are other time pressures . |
| 16 | Again , these problems are most likely to arise in puppyhood . |
| 17 | Among these , cross-linkage and disintegration of body protein , including the collagen fibres within connective tissue , hardening of the arteries and peroxidation of normal blood lipids are most likely to result in premature ageing . |
| 18 | In warmer climates , where conditions are often unsuitable for larval survival , the carrier animal is probably a more important source of pasture contamination and outbreaks of disease in lambs and kids are most likely to occur after a period of prolonged rain around the time of weaning . |
| 19 | Psychogenic reactions of this type are most likely to occur in those whose symptoms are purely psychosomatic , but who prefer to think they are ‘ allergic ’ to food , because they see this as being a more respectable sort of illness . |
| 20 | Ear infections are most likely to occur in breeds with relatively long and heavy ears , such as spaniels . |
| 21 | Caterers are most likely to come into contact with industrial tribunals if one of their past or present employees refers a matter to the tribunal with regard to his or her contract of employment . |
| 22 | The most extensive area of discretion , however , is that with which we are most likely to come into contact : police officers on the beat . |
| 23 | Yet , at the same time , these are the sectors that are most likely to provide for those workers ( the lower paid and the unemployed ) at whom the government 's migration policies , operating through the Employment Transfer and Job Search Schemes , are aimed . |
| 24 | The impending deals , advisers believe , are most likely to focus on sales of peripheral businesses and expansion of core operations . |
| 25 | ‘ And marriage itself might have been a useful bit of insurance for Gustav : her relatives or guardians would have been less likely to inform on her husband than on some passing stranger who could get his trousers open in Olympic time . ’ |
| 26 | It reveals that people in Whinney Banks and Hardwick are less likely to co-operate with police than in the county as a whole . |
| 27 | Their employees learn faster and are less likely to leave for a rival . |
| 28 | Researchers who studied attitudes towards extra-marital sex , relative to the size of the community , found that in general , people living in rural areas are less tolerant of extra-marital sex and are less likely to engage in it than people living in large cities . |
| 29 | There is certainly some evidence that people who drink one or two units a day are less likely to die of heart disease than people who drink no alcohol at all . |
| 30 | The most modified milks are the whey-based formulas such as SMA Gold Cap , Aptamil , Osterfeed and Cow & Gate Premium and these are less likely to lead to allergy . |