Example sentences of "as likely to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Articles on this sort of theme may appear in art periodicals , but are just as likely to be found in other journals , on literature , say , or history . |
| 2 | Many critics , including William Binchy , saw this as likely to be an ineffectual provision and subject to the whims of judges . |
| 3 | His life expectancy is falling and he is seven times as likely to be murdered as a white boy . |
| 4 | There was intense suspicion of the ‘ foreigner ’ ( although he was as likely to be a trader from the nearby town as a native of another land ) , but the ordinary inhabitants of the territories which were to become the modern States of Europe had no sense of common identity , of membership of national groups . |
| 5 | Men in middle age do this much less often , although surprisingly , in later life those who survive are as likely to be carers as women . |
| 6 | When they were not fighting each other , the kings and caliphs were just as likely to be seeking each other 's protection or vassalage . |
| 7 | He 's just as likely to be found talking to a six-strong student society in Bangor as addressing 500 top Earth scientists in Washington ; he will have a drink with ( and on ) me just as readily ( or so he makes it appear ) as he will have lunch with ( and no doubt on ) the director of the US National Science Foundation ; if he 's not corresponding with some editor over some esoteric point of science , he 's trying to persuade the high-ups at the European Space Agency to do something adventurous in planetology for a change . |
| 8 | All the new products which can be envisaged , and most of the new services which can be imagined , are as likely to be automated as the old . |
| 9 | It 's hard to divine the facts of her early life since her autobiography , Lady Sings The Blues , is full of tawdry details which are as likely to be figments of a pulp imagination as they are the truth : the way she tells it , she was routinely mistreated and beaten , recruited for a brothel and more or less saved only by a small talent for holding a tune . |
| 10 | The failure of such experiments to demonstrate any effect of homoeopathic remedies is therefore just as likely to be due to inappropriate remedy selection for the model under study as to the possibility that the remedy really is inactive , or that homoeopathy is just a load of fantasy , wishful thinking and mumbo jumbo . |
| 11 | But one of the cost factors , particularly the amount of each instalment , is as likely to be rated important by people deciding to use hire purchase . |
| 12 | The night shift was no trouble to me if Nigel was at home , but he was just as likely to be thousands of miles away , doing something with lighthouses . |
| 13 | I say nuclear catastrophe rather than nuclear war also because the episode which ends civilisation is as likely to be an accident as it is to be a monstrous design ; the result of human error or foolishness rather than of deliberate choice , an ultimate irony to mock the rational pretensions of the human race . |
| 14 | But they are just as likely to be white , middle-class , and middle-aged . |
| 15 | ON A Sunday morning , the average Tory voter is as likely to be queuing at a supermarket check-out as at the communion rail . |
| 16 | Another important exception can be found in Grieco 's ( 1987 ) data on the use of kin networks to secure employment , where she found that relatives as distant as cousins were as likely to be involved as close kin in arrangements which brought a number of male and female kin into the same workplace or firm . |
| 17 | And — to us this comes as a surprise — witches are as likely to be men as women . |
| 18 | Among the small minority of combatants who found it difficult to adjust to civilian life after the war , who were anti-semitic , militantly anti-communist and concerned about the continued decline of Britain , individuals were almost as likely to be anti-fascist as supporters of fascism . |
| 19 | A causal explanation for these events is not to be found by looking at the mental processes of particular social groups or categories involved in them since any traits so identified are as likely to be effects as causes . |
| 20 | Mr Blunkett had been reviewing some of the scientific evidence about the connection between deprivation and ill health or premature death , and immediately before your intervention had referred to children in social class 5 being six times as likely to be burnt or knocked down in accidents as those in social class 1 . |
| 21 | However , those who lost their virginity earlier are four times as likely to be smokers than those who lost it late — suggesting a pattern of people who are impulsive in more ways than one . |
| 22 | The original juice may be from cider apples , but it is just as likely to be imported eating apple juice concentrate . |
| 23 | Thus , Stevie Wonder and Al Green are just as likely to be cited as influences alongside the likes of Soul II Soul or Public Enemy . |
| 24 | They are twice as likely to live in council housing , twice as likely to be supported by someone in class V ( if at all ) than in any other class ( Werner 1984 ) . |
| 25 | It is easy to escape this issue by saying that the discourses of the two groups have little in common ; but discourse analysis should teach us that it is as likely to be our attitude to what they say that categorizes them . |
| 26 | Moreover , while the engineers tended to work on or near the shop-floor , today 's scientific and technical professionals are just as likely to be located far from actual production . |
| 27 | Communication links between the ‘ explorers ’ and the ‘ implementers ’ need to be strong , although they are just as likely to be based on informal as distinct from formal communications patterns and networks . |
| 28 | A radical lesbian whose main concerns are CND and South Africa is as likely to be placed in terms of education and occupation ( e.g. teaching or social work ) , as the home-loving , conservative , television absorbed , do-it-yourself enthusiast might represent the aspiring white collar working class . |
| 29 | Cause : Irritation — but this is just as likely to be from something in the water as from flukes or protozoan parasites . |
| 30 | Furthermore , it suggest that those people who had become unemployed because of a temporary job coming to an end were just as likely to be unemployed for only a short spell and then to go back to work , and that they were less likely to have been continuously unemployed throughout the following year ( Moylan/Millar/Davies , 1984 ) . |