Example sentences of "[adv] likely [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ellen wondered if he had petit mal and looked it up in a medical dictionary — neither of them went to doctors if they could help it — but the entry was not very helpful , and it seemed in any case the kind of symptom it would be better to be vague about , not define , not name , for fear the naming made it worse , less likely to evaporate out of existence . |
| 2 | But they are keen on the average private investor because he does not expect to have lunch once a quarter and is less likely to sell out during a takeover bid . |
| 3 | There is again some anecdotal evidence that such degrees are less likely to lead on to postgraduate research , and some of the figures in Table 3.2 suggest this ; but such assertions need to be tested empirically . |
| 4 | You 're less likely to end up with gaps and assumptions . ’ |
| 5 | Thus , the majority of this group had not reached the point of their heroin career where becoming known is most likely and so were less likely to show up in crime statistics , medical records , and so on , than longer-term users . |
| 6 | From this position it is less likely to run out over the fur . |
| 7 | The sentences are less likely to run out of puff in mid-stream and trail off into inaudibility . |
| 8 | The machines also hold more cash , making them less likely to run out of money over weekends and at busy periods . |
| 9 | According to Dr Richard Earle , director of the IOS , accelerated ageing is most likely to set in between 40 and 50 , with women ageing faster during this decade than men ( an average of eighteen years compared to fifteen ) . |
| 10 | The person in the centre who is most likely to link up with the systems verifier is the SCOTVEC co-ordinator . |
| 11 | In other words , the dying mouse is the one most likely to end up in a cat 's stomach . |
| 12 | The alternative is to lift the ban on supplying weapons to Bosnia 's Muslims , the main victims of the war and the ones most likely to fight back against the Serbs effectively . |
| 13 | What am I most likely to get out of this if I do it ? |
| 14 | He favours careful risk assessment , which should enable regulators to concentrate on those ( like Maxwell ) who look most likely to step out of line . |
| 15 | Nigel Duerdoth of the National Federation of Housing Associations thinks that the new payment system for hostels is ‘ most likely to break down in the inner cities — the areas where stress is greatest and hostels are most concentrated and needed ’ . |
| 16 | You stick a Frownie on the parts of the face you are most likely to screw up in pain — the forehead , the outer end of the cheekbones — so that when your face starts to contract , you will realise it is happening , and relax your features into a seraphic , line-free mask . |
| 17 | England 's external wars were fought principally in France , so most Englishmen had little direct experience of warfare , apart from those in the north , where relations with Scotland were always likely to break out into open hostility . |
| 18 | I was hardly likely to sit up in bed and say ‘ Do come in , have we met ? ’ was I ? ’ |
| 19 | 3 STEVE BULL scored twice as England finished their European Championship Under-21 qualifying campaign with a flourish in Jastrzebie Zdruj , but they are still likely to miss out on a quarter-final place for the first time since the competition began 13 years ago . |
| 20 | Intel is also expected to achieve strong growth , taking over poll position this year , growing slower than RISC , but still likely to win up to 29% of the market by 1997 . |
| 21 | ‘ We must have a five-point plan for autumn safety : 1 ) Get all poisonous plants clearly labelled ; 2 ) Put government health warnings on toadstools ; 3 ) Secure all dangerous-looking branches ; 4 ) Spread polythene sheets beneath all major leaf-producing trees ; 5 ) Have a national warning system for cold days on which apples , conkers and so on , are much more likely to fall out of the trees and cause these horrendous injuries . ’ |
| 22 | Much of this consensus , at least nominally , cut across party lines : Beveridge , who formalised the project of ‘ welfare ’ expansion , was a Liberal ; the 1944 White Paper on employment policy was produced under the war-time coalition ; Butler 's educational reforms were also decided in 1944 , but many people thought that the Labour Party was more likely to live up to the promise of reform . |
| 23 | By day , however , they are more likely to move in on someone else 's kill and carry off parts that other jaws can not crack ( below ) . |
| 24 | They are much more likely to hold on to a degree of independence . |
| 25 | TEENAGE girls are far more likely to end up as gymslip mums now than a decade ago , according to a Government report . |
| 26 | Partners who divorce are more likely to end up as local authority tenants even if they were previously owner-occupiers ( Holmans , Nandy , and Brown 1987 ) . |
| 27 | Potentially the customer holds the strong cards at this stage of the discussion : the hotelier or restaurateur knows what his business problems are and knows what the computer system is going to have to achieve — and the potential buyer , who has thought this through before the supplier appears , is more likely to end up with the right system . |
| 28 | Do Protestants or Catholics achieve more in the educational system , for example ; or are Catholics more likely to end up in prison than Protestants ? |
| 29 | Yet the schools they attend are , on the whole , not as good in terms of status , teacher input and , sometimes , physical surroundings ; they make less use of the educational system beyond the compulsory school stage ; they are less likely to pass government examinations and go on to university ; and they are far more likely to end up in manual occupations , just like their fathers and mothers . |
| 30 | I do not try and cosset these over winter by placing them into a separate tank in the garage , reasoning that the survivors will be the toughest of the bunch and more likely to make up into sturdy adult fish : come spring , they are distributed to friends . |