Example sentences of "is more likely to [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Opposition to development from lower income groups is more likely to be motivated by anger at the focus on up-market housing than by a desire to preserve a golden past which they are well aware has never existed . |
| 32 | True , the local history researcher is more likely to be pursuing investigations through source materials provided by Anglo-Saxon charters , medieval rolls , maps , land grants , muster documents and the like , but the uses of heraldry are not to be despised in the processes of rounding out historical themes . |
| 33 | The biographer , therefore , is likely to work on people of some fame , whatever their spheres of activity may be , and so the biography is more likely to be about the famous ( or notorious ) person , the outstanding success or the eye-catching , unusual personality . |
| 34 | A ten-year age-group is more likely to be useful , but the actual category limits should be carefully thought about . |
| 35 | A deficit of isolated teeth may indicate preferential loss of teeth , but in most cases it is more likely to be due to sampling error , by the failure to extract all the teeth from the pellets . |
| 36 | The latter alternative is preferable since it is more likely to be seen as constructive and thus win support ( see Building on page 25 ) . |
| 37 | If you are told that someone ‘ had seen what has happened ’ , that person is more likely to be having questions addressed to them than to be posing questions themselves . |
| 38 | If the behaviour brings about pleasant or rewarding consequences , it is more likely to be repeated . |
| 39 | There is more likely to be a gradual wearing down of viral disease , with a wide variety of drugs becoming increasingly effective against specific types of virus . |
| 40 | Used as I am , of course , to drinking from glittering crystal , I admit that for everyday use it is more likely to be the ordinary glass you buy from Woolies or Habitat — sensible , cheap , and reasonably designed . |
| 41 | Tuttle , by maintaining that the Laetoli prints are closer to Homo than the Hadar foot bones , and that different species were involved , is falling very much into the Leakey camp which believes that the earliest ’ true man ’ is more likely to be found in Tanzania than in Ethiopia , and that A afarensis is no more than a sub-branch of evolution . |
| 42 | When approached by a predator , the tail attracts all the attention and is more likely to be attacked — the vulnerable head is thus spared damage . |
| 43 | An unhappy marriage is more likely to be explained in terms of current stresses than in relation to what has gone on long before . |
| 44 | The pressure is more likely to be felt by women than men , and increases as individuals grow older . |
| 45 | This may be because low staff turnover creates less need for induction and job training and more need for development training or it may be that job training is more likely to be taken for granted . |
| 46 | Communications remain important though the talk now is more likely to be of the high speed 1990s and the proposed link between the M1 and M62 or the rail freight link from ‘ Port Wakefield , ’ via the Channel Tunnel to the continent . |
| 47 | Whilst it would be easy to exaggerate the importance of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms , its significance is more likely to be underestimated rather than overestimated . |
| 48 | The BC109C was selected as it claims to have a spread from 380 to 800 at 2mA and is more likely to be within the spec we require . |
| 49 | The famed croaking is more likely to be heard in such tanks , as it 's at its most audible when males meet and display as a threat to other intruding males — or during the mating season as the male pursues the female . |
| 50 | If it is more likely to be fourteen , ask : ‘ Did you say one-four ? ’ |
| 51 | The reason is more likely to be that they only fly in ideal wind conditions . |
| 52 | It is impossible to quantify these concepts precisely and the assumption that changes are small is more likely to be valid in large-scale problems ( where one coefficient , for example , is less important in relation to the rest of the data ) than in the simple examples used for illustration , but the underlying principles are independent of such considerations . |
| 53 | McCrea sums up the Western code by his declaration that all his wants is to ‘ enter my house justified ’ while Scott is more easy-going and hence survives to mourn his partner in a world where a Westerner is more likely to be an unshaven brute played by Warren Oates than a white-hatted , true-hearted paladin . |
| 54 | Today many live on something close to the Church 's minimum stipend of £12,200 a year and their accommodation is more likely to be in the council semi mould . |
| 55 | Although things have picked up in the last six months , the work is more likely to be restructuring , rights issues or corporate rescues . |
| 56 | The Skil 1865U is a mid-range model that is more likely to be found in the independent tool stores than the d-i-y sheds . |
| 57 | If so , it is more likely to be disease rather than old age . |
| 58 | ‘ to give rise to apprehension for the safety of any person ( or property ) or ’ False reports that a person is missing from home or that a bomb is in a building ( which is more likely to be encountered in practice ) come under this point . |
| 59 | On the other hand , the service provided is more likely to be responsive to customer demand . |
| 60 | A company which has to satisfy its customers and compete to survive is more likely to be efficient , alert to innovation , and genuinely accountable to the public ( 1983 Conservative Election Manifesto ) . |