Example sentences of "it is [adv] more 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 altogether more likely that we are faced with an interpolation . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It is much more likely that they shared the wish of Arthur Greenwood who looked to the after-care workers to : |
| 8 | It is much more likely that the majority of assessments are currently undertaken either informally or indirectly . |
| 9 | It is much more likely that the pharmaceutical industry will support such analysis as it perceives its interests as being threatened ( Drummond , 1989/90 ) . |
| 10 | However , it is much more likely that you will injure joints or muscles or end up stiff or sore . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It is much more likely that the name commemorates ‘ fair Rosamond ’ , the mistress of Henry II . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 … |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It is much more likely that the distribution of state benefits will occur through narrow informal political networks supportive of the ruling central coalition . |
| 20 | It is much more likely that the periods we call constant saw some small changes and the intervening periods , although generally of more rapid fall , were punctuated by minor stillstands . |
| 21 | The same author is of the opinion that it is much more likely that lateral shear is set up by differences in frictional drag on the wind between the sand of the dunes and the firm floors of the swales between . |
| 22 | I feel that it is much more likely that Brutus was strongly influenced by the anonymous letters which Cassius had sent him . |
| 23 | As people adopt wilder and wilder attempts to keep the bad feelings down , so it is ever more likely that these feelings will bounce up and hit them even harder in return . |
| 24 | Having worked together in the area of analysis , it is then more likely that you will be able to co-operate in developing a corporate strategy . |
| 25 | It has been suggested that the paranotal lobes of insects were at first connected with epigamic behaviour ( Alexander and Brown , 1963 ) but it is perhaps more likely that they were associated with locomotion from the beginning . |
| 26 | It is perhaps more likely that Freeman has been deceived by the fact that the linguistic patterning of King Lear so under-determines how it is to be interpreted that it is compatible with his and a large number of other theories of metaphor which all equally predict it , and hence appear to explain it . |
| 27 | Nowadays , with unemployment at an appallingly high level , it is far more likely that people who have been unable to find work are simply the victims of economic and political circumstances . |
| 28 | Not only is the purpose for which the consumer buys consumer goods more likely to be known to the seller ( particularly by implication ) but it is far more likely that the consumer will rely on the seller 's judgment and skill . |