Example sentences of "likely [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A similar result is likely where the witness is suspected of complicity in a fraudulent scheme , especially where he can be regarded as the ‘ real ’ plaintiff . |
| 2 | For residents and for staff , the risk of violence taking group form will be less likely where the following needs are being met : |
| 3 | With hindsight , therefore , only one outcome was likely although the struggle was often violent and bloody . |
| 4 | It would be possible to resolve the pronoun here by reasoning that a dog biting a vet is much more likely than a vet biting a dog ( or , indeed , of either of them biting himself ) . |
| 5 | Can only assume this was designed a long time ago , say roughly 1983 ; surely even Peter Snow must now realise that a Labour landslide is rather more likely than a Tory one . |
| 6 | ( At the extremes , a child of professional parents was about 20 times more likely than a child of semi-skilled and unskilled workers to enter full-time higher education . ) |
| 7 | There is no sharp division of duties between senior lecturer and lecturer , but a senior lecturer is , in general , more likely than a lecturer to hold such posts as dean or head of department , or to chair university committees . |
| 8 | This was actually caused by an integrated circuit failure , though an intermittent fault such as this is less likely than a total failure . |
| 9 | It is also far more likely than a reactive search to yield positive results . |
| 10 | A child in the vitamin A group was significantly less likely than a placebo-treated child to have made several clinic visits ( p=0.019 ) ; for example children in the vitamin A group were 27% ( 95% CI 4–45% ) less likely to have attended the clinic 3 or more times during a 4-month dosing interval . |
| 11 | Lack of care is often repeated : ex-care women in their study were considerably more likely than a comparison group to suffer a breakdown in their own role as parents , resulting in one in five of their children also being admitted into institutional care . |
| 12 | Both mothers and fathers of children admitted into care were more likely than a comparison group to have a psychiatric disorder . |
| 13 | Firstly , their income is less likely than the rest of the population to come from earnings from employment ; and more likely to be derived from pensions from the state or from past employers or from savings . |
| 14 | Thus , for example , they were more likely than the psychiatrists to diagnose psychiatric disorder or recommend inpatient care . |
| 15 | The ‘ unsafe ’ driver is more likely than the ‘ safe ’ driver to be a non-manual worker and to have stayed on at school after the age of 16 . |
| 16 | Children of parents with means were more likely than the children of the poor to have capital ; but enterprise was even more essential , and there is no reason to suppose that this was the prerogative of any group or class in the Europe of the day . |
| 17 | Either is an expression of a painful emotional attitude , but the second is much more likely than the first to arouse defensiveness . |
| 18 | The algorithms suggest one candidate to be more likely than the others . |
| 19 | Thus , for example , when asked whether or not they would describe their own redundancy as genuinely voluntary , the oldest group ( those over 65 when interviewed ) were much more likely than the rest to say ‘ yes ’ ( 83 per cent compared with 46 per cent of those aged 55–59 and 65 per cent of those aged 60–64 ) . |
| 20 | The older age-groups were somewhat less likely than the younger ones to have an occupational pension . |
| 21 | Older people were much more likely than the young to be unable to describe what they meant by health . |
| 22 | In other words , the younger children were much less likely than the older children to respond to an inadequate message with a request for further information . |
| 23 | While the long-wavists might point to effects of changes in production on wider society , they are less likely than the regulationists to see the cause-and-effect relation going the other way . |
| 24 | People with disabilities are more likely than the non-disabled to experience poverty , have lower incomes and fewer assets . |
| 25 | The 149 ( 48% ) who answered ‘ very easy ’ were more likely than the others to have better control . |
| 26 | SERC funded students in both specialist and conversion courses were more likely than the average to be continuing their studies . |
| 27 | According to the information collected to date , students in the two largest subject areas , computing and micro-electronics , were more likely than the average to be in employment . |
| 28 | Students of communications , instrumentation , special applications and ( marginally ) computing were more likely than the rest to be seeking work . |
| 29 | However , on the basis of Table 7.5 , and recognising some of the very small numbers involved , research students in the following areas were less likely than the average to be seeking employment : |
| 30 | One of the reasons for using a recognition task was that it seemed less likely than the first study which used a recall test to be biased by the fact that subjects were aware that the study was concerned with risk . |