Example sentences of "[adv] likely [prep] be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women are less likely to be in paid employment than men . |
| 2 | In any case , the amounts of the fees and expenses are still likely to be at large , because expert clauses never lay down the amounts , except in the case of fees by the use of a percentage of the amount at issue , and expenses can not be considered before a reference . |
| 3 | On the face of it this may seem a strange tactic for a side who , on paper , possess probably the most lethal front-line in the Premier League , but Graham , still likely to be without ankle-injury victim Paul Merson , is seeking to restore stability to stop the slump . |
| 4 | Moreover , industries tend to prefer virgin raw materials : they are more likely to be of consistent quality and in dependable supply . |
| 5 | Arguments are more likely to be over domestic chores and money , than children or sex ( which caused very few rows indeed — only 11% ) . |
| 6 | It is more likely to be about sore things from childhood , which we were not allowed properly to experience or mourn : or we may have been too young in emotional or physical development to cope . |
| 7 | Their data show that German engineers are more likely to be in key management positions than their British counterparts ( who are relatively poorly paid even in UK terms ) , and they draw a general contrast between the ‘ profit-centred ’ approach which they find in Britain , and the ‘ product-centred ’ one they find in Germany : |
| 8 | It turned out that victorious females selected small cocks , and small birds were more likely to be in good condition . |
| 9 | Those with qualifications of any sort were more likely to be in paid employment ( 59% of those with school leaving qualifications , 37% of those without ; difference 16.7% to 34.9% ) at all levels of disease severity . |
| 10 | In the second outcome , we discover that females are more likely to be in low status jobs , and that people in such jobs are more likely to go absent , but that being female , once type of job is controlled , does not affect absentee behaviour directly . |
| 11 | A causal interpretation of the bivariate effect would have been entirely faulty : it was purely a product of women being both more likely to be in low status jobs and more likely to be absent . |
| 12 | The fact that women were less likely to go absent but more likely to be in unfavourable jobs meant that we were misled about the effect of low status jobs on absence before we controlled for sex . |