Example sentences of "they [am/are] less likely to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since those officials are not under the thumb of councillors worried about rates increases , they are less likely to be frugal . |
| 2 | We have talked in this book about the bereaved person 's need to talk and be recognized as someone having a mourning role , but if few people know us anyway , they are less likely to be aware of the major change in our life and we are less likely to feel able to talk to them about it . |
| 3 | In addition , the fact that women are less mobile than men and more confined to the home means that they are less likely to be exposed to situations which lack effective informal social controls . |
| 4 | they are less likely to be objects of suspicion and distrust . |
| 5 | It is not that they are less likely to be murdered , raped , robbed , or assaulted — although the best scientific evidence based on victimization surveys shows this to be true ( Hindelang , Gottfredson , and Garofalo 1978 ) — but that in the criminal law , definitions of murder , rape , robbery , assault , theft , and other serious crimes are so constructed as to exclude many similar , and in important respects , identical acts , and these are just the acts likely to be committed more frequently by powerful individuals . |
| 6 | On the other hand , they are less likely to be apprehended or detained by the police for drug and/or non-drug offences . |
| 7 | On the one hand it would appear that they are less likely to be clearly subordinated to traditional patriarchal authority . |
| 8 | Small streams tend to give more uniform supplies than rivers because they are less likely to be contaminated , and storage in reservoirs tends to provide uniformity . |
| 9 | They are likely to enjoy higher standards of health , and to live longer ; they are less likely to be convicted of a criminal offence ; they are more likely to own their own house and a variety of consumer goods . |
| 10 | Since women are much less likely than men to be employed full-time , to be in highly paid secure jobs or to hold managerial or professional posts , they are less likely to be members of occupational pension schemes . |
| 11 | This group is in many ways similar to the elderly , except that they are less likely to be able to contribute to care from their own resources and are therefore more likely to receive a free service wherever they are placed . |
| 12 | In male prisons , while homosexual relationships exist they are less likely to be tolerated if they involve truly loving feelings . |
| 13 | Secondly , since women are generally lower paid than men — earning on average about three-quarters of men 's pay — they are less likely to be able to afford cars . |
| 14 | In other words , the range of prizes is bigger in entrepreneurial activity but they are less likely to be repeated across generations . |
| 15 | lt would , for example , sound distinctly odd to have a tone-unit boundary between an article and a following noun , or between auxiliary and main verbs if they are adjacent ( though we may on occasions hesitate or pause in such places within a tone-unit ; some people who do a lot of arguing , notably politicians and philosophers , develop the skill of pausing for breath in such intonationally unlikely places because they are less likely to be interrupted than if they pause at the end of a sentence ) . |