Example sentences of "and [adv] likely [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no problem here if the information is very specialised and only likely to be useful to a few outlets . |
| 2 | A causal interpretation of the bivariate effect would have been entirely faulty : it was purely a product of women being both more likely to be in low status jobs and more likely to be absent . |
| 3 | A study , also in the BNJ , says old people are less mobile , less able to wash , dress and feed themselves and more likely to be incontinent than they were in 1979 . |
| 4 | While we might indeed readily hypothesize that these individuals were generally less likely than Ballymacarrett people to be subject to the pressures of their personal networks and more likely to be subject to a less localized outside influence , it is hard to suggest dimensions on which a number of looseknit networks , which differed greatly from each other , might be systematically compared ( but see 5.7.4 for an account of Bortoni-Ricardo 's study of rural immigrants to a Brazilian city ) . |
| 5 | Sentencing policies , as a result of law and order campaigns mean the prisoners are younger and more likely to be black . |
| 6 | Properties are older and more likely to be terraced houses or flats ; they have fewer rooms but more people per room ; and they are less likely to have a garden . |
| 7 | Moreover , in the light of the Committee 's comment that consensual oral sex is extremely serious and more likely to be disturbing to a young girl than sexual intercourse , it would seem to follow that non-consensual oral sex is extremely serious and more likely to be disturbing than rape . |
| 8 | Moreover , in the light of the Committee 's comment that consensual oral sex is extremely serious and more likely to be disturbing to a young girl than sexual intercourse , it would seem to follow that non-consensual oral sex is extremely serious and more likely to be disturbing than rape . |
| 9 | Furthermore , if the suggestion to test for hepatitis B e antigen alone is followed people who are either positive for hepatitis B core antibody and therefore likely to be immune or positive for hepatitis B surface antigen but negative for hepatitis B e antigen would be revaccinated inappropriately . |