Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adj] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , those most likely not to complete the questionnaire or do the interview are most likely to be delinquent ; and one can not force people to fill in questionnaires correctly . |
| 2 | Germany : Although a law exists requiring employers to vaccinate healthcare workers , healthcare employees of small private practices are most likely to be unprotected against hepatitis B infection as many employers are ignoring the law |
| 3 | In general , when male animals compete for the attention of females , the biggest males are most likely to be successful ; therefore , as Darwin observed , in species where the males compete , they tend to be bigger than females , as in baboons or in most species of seal . |
| 4 | Soil and climate , which should be taken together , determine the land potential ( see Chapter 2 ) and largely dictate the main types of farming — arable , stock-rearing , fattening , dairying , etc. — that are most likely to be viable . |
| 5 | Enjoying bondage is related to the early , or joyless , loss of virginity , while it is the men earning over £25,000 a year who are most likely to be partial to using whips . |
| 6 | The research should contribute both to psychological knowledge , by identifying the structure and content of teenagers ' knowledge of road use and how this knowledge changes as a function of experience ; to the practical business of accident prevention , by identifying what kinds of interventions are most needed in pre-driving years and when these interventions are most likely to be effective . |
| 7 | We can get some sort of control reference by comparing figures for fatalities and serious injuries ( all of which would be reported ) during commuting hours ( when drivers are most likely to be sober ) with those during weekend nights . |
| 8 | The situation where such clauses are most likely to be reasonable is one where prior negotiations have been complex , with many oral discussions and lots of paper work passing between the parties , so that it is equally to the advantage of both parties to create certainty by describing all of their rights and liabilities in one defined set of documents and excluding all extraneous issues . |
| 9 | The conclusion is obvious ; and it is that those local searchers for a place here , who are being crowded out by the southerners , are most likely to be northern Catholics . |
| 10 | Find out which reporters on the local newspaper and radio are most likely to be interested . |
| 11 | Among the magazine articles , which are most likely to be interesting to her ? |
| 12 | Nevertheless , despite the necessity to protect children from being misled by the stories of ‘ heaven ’ and miracles , it should be made quite clear to them that most of the stories of good works attributed to the people involved are most likely to be true , and as these people are believed to have done much more good than most , they have been given a place in the windows of the churches and in paintings and elsewhere . |
| 13 | Horses that are well handled from the time of being foals are most unlikely to be aggressive towards us . |
| 14 | There are two issues to be considered : first , the desirability of incentives for foreign firms , and second , which incentives are most liable to be effective . |
| 15 | Museums with exhibitions of art from other countries are especially likely to be respectful in commentaries on works of art which have been borrowed . |
| 16 | In any transient situation there are always institutions and individuals that are able to anticipate the need for change and are sufficiently flexible to be able to accomplish the transition early and in an orderly fashion . |
| 17 | Malaysian Mining Corporation Berhad , effectively held that a comfort letter which does not expressly and precisely state that it has no contractual force will have such force , if its terms are sufficiently precise to be capable of interpretation . |
| 18 | I am extremely pleased to be able to say that shortly , Lord Mayor , we will be able to consider the future of the T T C under a Labour Government and under a Labour controlled Council , and I ca n't wait . |
| 19 | Families are growing smaller and greater geographical mobility means that relatives are less likely to be close at hand in times of need . |
| 20 | In addition , Stemberger notes that lexical items from the closed class are less likely to be involved in sequencing errors ( in which lexical items occur in the wrong order in an utterance ) and in shift errors ( in which an item appears either too early or too late in an utterance ) . |
| 21 | The majority of rooms are shared by two students , and applications from new postgraduates unwilling to share are less likely to be successful . |
| 22 | At all ages over 65 women are less likely to be married than men ; 78 per cent of all males aged 65 + were still married compared with 46 per cent of females . |
| 23 | These firms will offer personal services : services that are less likely to be subject to automation . |
| 24 | Pre-school children are less likely to be dry by 3 years if they are anxious or depressed . |
| 25 | Branches dominated by the left are less likely to be racialist , but unfortunately in many areas with large immigrant populations , like Leicester and Loughborough , the important union bureaucracies are controlled by the right wing . |
| 26 | Such vaccines are less likely to be toxic than a whole virus vaccine but some researchers believe that they are also less likely to work . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Since those officials are not under the thumb of councillors worried about rates increases , they are less likely to be frugal . |