Example sentences of "more likely to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The locale is described as a university in the north of England , it could be anywhere from Nottingham to Newcastle , but seems more likely to be Lancashire or Merseyside . |
| 2 | There were an awful lot of nice people working in the building , but there is sometimes a certain tone in your voice , a clouded look in your eye , which gives the impression that you 're more likely to be a client than a colleague . |
| 3 | While other chaps sing the praises of Meryl Streep , Joely Richardson or Gabriela Sabatini , I 'm much more likely to be found getting worked up over worms . |
| 4 | This means that in most cases it is more likely to be a matter of relaxing the forward pressure to allow the aircraft to level out rather than pulling it out with a positive backward pressure on the stick . |
| 5 | Giving up smoking together too is much more likely to be successful than if you have to struggle alone . |
| 6 | If internal criticism is unwelcome , the views of outsiders are even more likely to be seen as hostile and derogatory . |
| 7 | The infant retrieves , or witnesses the retrieval of an object from behind A ( say ) three times , after which he watches as the experimenter moves it to place B. On seeing it vanish at B he will go straight back to A. Although the back-to-A error is more likely to be made the longer the delay between hiding at B and allowing search , this is not a memory problem in any simple sense because the infant will return to A even if the object remains visible at B. We find a particularly clear demonstration of this kind of ‘ perseveration ’ in an experiment by Paul Harris in which there were two transparent , lockable boxes as the A and the B location . |
| 8 | Although working people are now more likely to be contributing to an occupational or personal pension , even in future years not all people will have been able to accumulate sufficient provision to support themselves in retirement — for example those people who have not worked for many years because they were unemployed or disabled or caring for relatives . |
| 9 | Yet older people tend to occupy the oldest , poorest housing and are more likely to be private tenants than other groups . |
| 10 | The assumption that the cultural achievements of the past are actually obsolete is more likely to be implied than so explicitly stated , but it is a logical implication of a progressivist concept of knowledge . |
| 11 | By the age of seven , differences between boys and girls have emerged , with boys being more likely to be smacked once a week than girls . |
| 12 | But , according to Peter Sommer , a computer forensics expert , a hard disc ‘ is more likely to be wiped out by glitches in the electricity supply ’ . |
| 13 | Workers under 35 years are the worst oversleepers , but overall women are more likely to be late than men , the survey found . |
| 14 | Businessmen and women in the North-west and Midlands are more likely to be early than their counterparts in London despite the fact that traffic is apparently not a significantly bigger problem . |
| 15 | In 19 out of the 24 subjects in the table ( right ) , their graduates are more likely to be unemployed or to be in short-term employment only . |
| 16 | A sociology graduate , whether from a university or polytechnic , is 10 times more likely to be unemployed or in short-term employment than a building , pharmacy or civil engineering graduate . |
| 17 | The distinction is useful because companies that seize an opportunity in markets outside their domestic base are more likely to be successful than those that react in response to an external factor . |
| 18 | This is more likely to be feasible in relation to questions relating to demographic and other background characteristics , than for behavioural or product market data . |
| 19 | Those who were particularly interested in politics or discussed politics , read highbrow papers or watched television news , were a little more likely to be able to name some issues ( any issues ! ) as the main themes being stressed by the parties , but the level of predictability was low . |
| 20 | Those who were interested in politics or discussed politics , read highbrow papers or watched television news , were a little more likely to be able to name some issues as the main themes being stressed by the parties . |
| 21 | In the darkness I felt in the hands of God , someone who could do anything He liked with me , even though that someone was more likely to be Mr Slieman , the manager , who with his pencil moustache looked more like a used car salesman and was constantly trying to show Louise , the cashier and kiosk girl , his collection of prophylactics . |
| 22 | How could you show that this was not because chocolate bars , sweets , etc. , are more likely to be eaten since your depression means that you can not be bothered to cook a proper meal ? |
| 23 | Luckily they are more likely to be used to collect the used parachutes scattered across the DZ . |
| 24 | The advantage of employing a specialist firm is that its tradesmen are more likely to be well trained and experienced in this field of building preservation , with a thorough and successful job being a more certain result . |
| 25 | At supper there is more likely to be a simple salad than a roast on the menu , which has the advantage of leaving you with more room to do proper justice to the pudding . |
| 26 | Women were more likely to be consumers of healthy alternatives . |
| 27 | On that evidence , therefore , and in spite of last night 's ominous phrases that the government would not tolerate ‘ chaos and anarchy ’ , it seems that the statement is more likely to be a specific warning — that people breaking in to armouries to steal weapons or ammunition could expect to be met by physical force — than a sign that the military are planning a political takeover . |
| 28 | Should England come second they would then go to Genoa to play the runners-up from Group B , who are more likely to be Argentina or the Soviet Union than Romania or Cameroun , although this does look the toughest , tightest group of all . |
| 29 | In Asia , the dolphin is confined mainly to mangroves , where it feeds on shrimps , whereas it is more likely to be found around rocky shores in other parts of its range . |
| 30 | After his broadcast on Thursday , it is more likely to be a new , and even bloodier , phase of his war . |