Example sentences of "it is [adv] [adv] likely that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is rather more likely that clerks had benefit of formal education than knights . |
| 2 | If McAlpine initiates the action it is marginally more likely that the Consortium could win costs against the company if McAlpine lost . |
| 3 | It is probably quite likely that the foreigners were honest and hard working , keeping themselves much to themselves but it was clearly a tinder-box situation with the tiniest spark capable of leading to a conflagration . |
| 4 | It is altogether more likely that we are faced with an interpolation . |
| 5 | It is also more likely that patients , and their partners , will see how treatment is related to their everyday lives , and they will be able to act on the feelings more immediately and carry out the tasks arising from the session . |
| 6 | It is also quite likely that there is truth in the other half of their assertion , which sounds as though it were consequential , but really is a quite unconnected proposition , namely , that there now may well be inadequate social services for other purposes . |
| 7 | It is also quite likely that there will be a mixture of positive and negative changes which need to be carefully interpreted . |
| 8 | It is also quite likely that the social services consumed some of the capital that could have been invested in industry , but again there was no scarcity of capital during this period . |
| 9 | It is also quite likely that allegations of malingering will be made and we would be grateful for your comments . |
| 10 | It is just as likely that the market , left to itself , would not finance or build nuclear-power stations , not because of the greens but because of their poor rate of return . |
| 11 | It is just as likely that some viruses evolved from more complex organisms — that they are cell fragments which found they could earn a perfectly good living simply by sponging off others . |
| 12 | But it is just as likely that she will allow one male after another to mount her until her whole circle of admirers has been accommodated . |
| 13 | Maybe it is , but it is just as likely that your idea was not quite right . |
| 14 | He went on to regard the presence of more than two rows to be an indication of adult growth , but , whilst this may sometimes occur it is just as likely that the unfortunate whelk was checked several times during its immature life . |
| 15 | Perhaps they were too well-known to need spelling out ; but it is just as likely that the personal qualities which contemporaries did stress were what really accounted for both men 's influence at the courts of successive Carolingians . |
| 16 | Presumably it is much more likely that such a problem would be picked up by professionals involved in a family , but it underlines the fact that children who are failing to thrive are very much at risk unless they are being taken to the clinic , for example , or are being seen regularly in the home by a Health Visitor . |
| 17 | This is a doubtful speculation as spinning , unlike sewing or embroidery does not require a strong light , and it is much more likely that the spinners would be found in comfort spinning by the light of their peat fires as dusk approached . |
| 18 | It is much more likely that they shared the wish of Arthur Greenwood who looked to the after-care workers to : |
| 19 | It is much more likely that the majority of assessments are currently undertaken either informally or indirectly . |
| 20 | It is much more likely that the pharmaceutical industry will support such analysis as it perceives its interests as being threatened ( Drummond , 1989/90 ) . |
| 21 | However , it is much more likely that you will injure joints or muscles or end up stiff or sore . ’ |
| 22 | It is much more likely that Matthew has purposely used a verse that would point towards Jesus as the new Moses who would , once again , lead his people from slavery to freedom . |
| 23 | It is much more likely that the name commemorates ‘ fair Rosamond ’ , the mistress of Henry II . |
| 24 | This idea has long since fallen out of favour ; it is much more likely that the two components of a pair were born at the same time and in the same region of space , from the same cloud of dust and gas . |
| 25 | Would any man in his senses invent a story of a bus crash in which 16,000 passengers were killed ? it is much more likely that these Old Testament numbers were faithfully copies out , despite the fact that they did not seem to make sense . |
| 26 | While there is some simple arithmetic to carry out in this question , it is much more likely that the drop in success rate is due to problems with interpretation and the distribution of the error response , £2.60 , confirms this . |
| 27 | It is possible that the boundary between mastery and non-mastery might be set differently for different educational purposes , but it is much more likely that different purposes will prescribe whether a boundary needs to be set at all . |
| 28 | Had she arrived in the department within some five minutes of her cardiac arrest , it is much more likely that she would have been resuscitated … |
| 29 | If you define your needs first it is much more likely that you 'll go for a mix of simple word processing and basic graphics . |
| 30 | It is much more likely that the distribution of state benefits will occur through narrow informal political networks supportive of the ruling central coalition . |