Example sentences of "is more likely to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means that in most cases it is more likely to be a matter of relaxing the forward pressure to allow the aircraft to level out rather than pulling it out with a positive backward pressure on the stick . |
| 2 | The infant retrieves , or witnesses the retrieval of an object from behind A ( say ) three times , after which he watches as the experimenter moves it to place B. On seeing it vanish at B he will go straight back to A. Although the back-to-A error is more likely to be made the longer the delay between hiding at B and allowing search , this is not a memory problem in any simple sense because the infant will return to A even if the object remains visible at B. We find a particularly clear demonstration of this kind of ‘ perseveration ’ in an experiment by Paul Harris in which there were two transparent , lockable boxes as the A and the B location . |
| 3 | The assumption that the cultural achievements of the past are actually obsolete is more likely to be implied than so explicitly stated , but it is a logical implication of a progressivist concept of knowledge . |
| 4 | But , according to Peter Sommer , a computer forensics expert , a hard disc ‘ is more likely to be wiped out by glitches in the electricity supply ’ . |
| 5 | This is more likely to be feasible in relation to questions relating to demographic and other background characteristics , than for behavioural or product market data . |
| 6 | At supper there is more likely to be a simple salad than a roast on the menu , which has the advantage of leaving you with more room to do proper justice to the pudding . |
| 7 | On that evidence , therefore , and in spite of last night 's ominous phrases that the government would not tolerate ‘ chaos and anarchy ’ , it seems that the statement is more likely to be a specific warning — that people breaking in to armouries to steal weapons or ammunition could expect to be met by physical force — than a sign that the military are planning a political takeover . |
| 8 | In Asia , the dolphin is confined mainly to mangroves , where it feeds on shrimps , whereas it is more likely to be found around rocky shores in other parts of its range . |
| 9 | After his broadcast on Thursday , it is more likely to be a new , and even bloodier , phase of his war . |
| 10 | Priced at around $3,500 — expensive , but still less than 5% of the cost of a new Mercedes Benz sports car — it is more likely to be seen in Beverly Hills than in Baltimore . |
| 11 | In parts of the country , a black man between the ages of 15 and 25 is more likely to be killed than was an American soldier in Vietnam . |
| 12 | The Old School Fool is more likely to be listening to The KLF than The Disc Four . |
| 13 | It is more likely to be a wonder I have borne with things so long . |
| 14 | Once we have been triggered into feeling the loss of someone who was important the grieving process is more likely to be able to start . |
| 15 | A calm horse is more likely to be cooperative than an angry or fearful horse . |
| 16 | And because the horse has n't been upset , it is more likely to be co-operative next time it is to be shod . |
| 17 | The question ‘ How do I look ? ’ is more likely to be phrased ‘ What do I look like ? ’ and not be openly asked , but wondered about . |
| 18 | Someone else is more likely to be eaten if I keep near to other people . |
| 19 | The majority of men who survive can expect to have the support of a wife up to the age of 85 , but any woman over 72 is more likely to be a widow left on her own . |
| 20 | To the extent that this identification is more likely to be made when the stimulus in question is already capable of activating a detailed representation , the likelihood of a vigorous CR may be increased . |
| 21 | One possibility is that generalized latent inhibition is likely to be weaker than that produced by pre-exposure to the CS itself and thus is more likely to be susceptible to the effect of the long interval . |
| 22 | Babies can start at six months , but it is more likely to be 12–18 months . |
| 23 | If a lavatory seat is to be responsible then it is more likely to be the male who suffers . |
| 24 | For the same reasons that the female is more likely to acquire infection in the throat than her male sexual partner , the homosexual male who practises oral sex is more likely to be infected in the throat than his heterosexual equivalent . |
| 25 | Any librarian involved in the selection of material is also constantly in touch with readers , so that an over-theoretical approach based merely upon the bibliographical and logistic aspects of provision is more likely to be avoided . |
| 26 | how long the employment was going to last in the absence of sickness ( a short-term contract is more likely to be frustrated than a job expected to last for the foreseeable future ) ; |
| 27 | In such a setting , too , conversation is more likely to be encouraged if the furniture is so arranged that the interviewee and the interviewer are not physically separated by a desk ; that the chairs are reasonably comfortable and in a position to allow eye contact ; and that there are no unplanned interruptions . |
| 28 | For example , lower working-class people are more likely to be mesomorphic as a result of their diet and continual manual labour , and this class grouping is more likely to be found represented in the criminal statistics . |
| 29 | To take a somewhat simplistic example , stealing low-priced goods from shops is more likely to be reported than stealing goods of equal value from one 's place of work . |
| 30 | The boxer hero is more likely to be a nasty thug who glares at his opponent at the weigh-in and acts like Mr Nasty . |