Example sentences of "as likely to [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Figure 7.4 shows that women under age 50 who were still married to their first husband were more than three times as likely to be owner-occupiers than local authority tenants . |
| 2 | A causal explanation for these events is not to be found by looking at the mental processes of particular social groups or categories involved in them since any traits so identified are as likely to be effects as causes . |
| 3 | However , those who lost their virginity earlier are four times as likely to be smokers than those who lost it late — suggesting a pattern of people who are impulsive in more ways than one . |
| 4 | And — to us this comes as a surprise — witches are as likely to be men as women . |
| 5 | Men in middle age do this much less often , although surprisingly , in later life those who survive are as likely to be carers as women . |
| 6 | It 's hard to divine the facts of her early life since her autobiography , Lady Sings The Blues , is full of tawdry details which are as likely to be figments of a pulp imagination as they are the truth : the way she tells it , she was routinely mistreated and beaten , recruited for a brothel and more or less saved only by a small talent for holding a tune . |