Example sentences of "is as likely to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | But one of the cost factors , particularly the amount of each instalment , is as likely to be rated important by people deciding to use hire purchase . |
| 2 | I say nuclear catastrophe rather than nuclear war also because the episode which ends civilisation is as likely to be an accident as it is to be a monstrous design ; the result of human error or foolishness rather than of deliberate choice , an ultimate irony to mock the rational pretensions of the human race . |
| 3 | ON A Sunday morning , the average Tory voter is as likely to be queuing at a supermarket check-out as at the communion rail . |
| 4 | It is easy to escape this issue by saying that the discourses of the two groups have little in common ; but discourse analysis should teach us that it is as likely to be our attitude to what they say that categorizes them . |
| 5 | A radical lesbian whose main concerns are CND and South Africa is as likely to be placed in terms of education and occupation ( e.g. teaching or social work ) , as the home-loving , conservative , television absorbed , do-it-yourself enthusiast might represent the aspiring white collar working class . |
| 6 | However , in a country where the air is as likely to be alive with mosquitoes or tsetse flies as flamingos , Mr Sandy discovered that whisky had additional uses : ‘ It appeared that consumption of one 's own product was an excellent anaesthetic for all the bugs in the tummy and I was never ill once . ’ |