Example sentences of "less likely to [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , in line with students as a whole , SERC specialists were also less likely to be seeking employment than those who studied on conversion Advanced Courses . |
| 2 | Grandchildren do not appear on Qureshi and Simons 's ( 1987 ) hierarchy of preferred carers , indicating that they are very much a minority group subsumed under ‘ other relatives ’ and therefore much less likely to be providing personal care than their parents ' generation . |
| 3 | They are much less likely to be using mail order . |
| 4 | Thus , establishments with declining output , falling overtime and declining employment levels were less likely to use temporary workers or , more precisely , were less likely to be using fixed-term contract workers . |
| 5 | In line with what we had expected was the finding that establishments where the level of output , the amount of overtime being worked and the number of persons employed was falling were rather less likely to be using fixed-term contract workers . |
| 6 | ( As migrants were already on courses they may be less likely to be thinking of taking up another one at present . ) |
| 7 | Because they live longer , women over 65 are much less likely to be living with their spouse than men of a similar age . |
| 8 | As expected , they are also less likely to own or to be buying their house , less likely to be living in council accommodation and more likely to be renting furnished accommodation . |
| 9 | No really clear picture was distinguishable , except for private manufacturing establishments where , as Table 3.8 suggests , establishments making less use of overtime are also less likely to be making use of fixed-term contract workers . |
| 10 | Nor , at least for the manufacturing sector where the argument would seem most relevant , was there any evidence that more capital intensive establishments were less likely to be making use of such workers . |
| 11 | Nonetheless , the farmers could have bought at a slightly higher price certified seed , which , being certified , was less likely to be suffering from the virus which affected the seed actually bought . |