Example sentences of "[adv] likely to [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | These firms will offer personal services : services that are less likely to be subject to automation . |
| 2 | With the others not around , she will be less likely to be assertive to strange dogs . |
| 3 | A hostile article is even less likely to be satisfactory to a reader . |
| 4 | There is no problem here if the information is very specialised and only likely to be useful to a few outlets . |
| 5 | Raphael also suggests that bereaved parents who felt particularly unsupported themselves , lacking contact with the grandparents , for instance , were especially likely to be oblivious to , or deny , their children 's needs at this time . |
| 6 | Enjoying bondage is related to the early , or joyless , loss of virginity , while it is the men earning over £25,000 a year who are most likely to be partial to using whips . |
| 7 | Among the magazine articles , which are most likely to be interesting to her ? |
| 8 | Ignoring or actually offending local culture is hardly likely to be conducive to success ! |
| 9 | After all , fear of the purchase process itself is hardly likely to be conducive to the build-up of positive feelings about the eventual product or service to be bought . |
| 10 | A national survey of teachers ' attitudes to equal opportunities found that men were more likely to be opposed to promoting equal opportunities than women , but that differences in subject taught were more important than the sex of the teacher in determining his or her attitude . |
| 11 | It is more likely to be relevant to medium and long term planning and forecasting , especially ( as far as this book is concerned ) as regards market development , growth and decline . |
| 12 | It is more likely to be relevant to medium and long term forecasting and planning than quantitative techniques . |
| 13 | One possibility is that generalized latent inhibition is likely to be weaker than that produced by pre-exposure to the CS itself and thus is more likely to be susceptible to the effect of the long interval . |
| 14 | They are more likely to be subject to polypharmacy and the harmful interactions of potent drugs . |
| 15 | While we might indeed readily hypothesize that these individuals were generally less likely than Ballymacarrett people to be subject to the pressures of their personal networks and more likely to be subject to a less localized outside influence , it is hard to suggest dimensions on which a number of looseknit networks , which differed greatly from each other , might be systematically compared ( but see 5.7.4 for an account of Bortoni-Ricardo 's study of rural immigrants to a Brazilian city ) . |
| 16 | Such catastrophic events , he believes , are more likely to be due to the receipt of a considerable volume of rainfall in a short space of time on to soils which are already saturated , as occurs during the monsoon season . |
| 17 | A deficit of isolated teeth may indicate preferential loss of teeth , but in most cases it is more likely to be due to sampling error , by the failure to extract all the teeth from the pellets . |
| 18 | But it 's much more likely to be due to human error . |
| 19 | In so far as cost-of-funds matters lead to Japanese competitive advantage , it is more likely to be due to their willingness to take greater risks because of the low relative cost reported by Prowse ( 1986 ) and confirmed by Hodder ( 1986 ) , rather than a propensity to disregard DCF . |
| 20 | The reasons for failure are more likely to be due to people problems , which may show themselves by the lack of cooperation when the information system is being developed and a resistance to the changes that occur when the application is implemented . |
| 21 | Natural infection may have also contributed to the high seroprevalences in the IPV group 13–17 months after vaccination , although evidence from previous studies in poliomyelitis-free areas suggests that this finding is more likely to be due to brisk secondary responses in children who had been primed with OPV and who later received poliovirus antigen parenterally in the form of IPV . |
| 22 | This can result from underclaiming of tax reliefs against taxable income , but it is more likely to be due to tax being stopped on some income but not reclaimed . |
| 23 | Such jobs are more likely to be attractive to the unregistered , or uncompensated unemployed , or to people normally outside the labour force . |
| 24 | Young people are also more likely to be sensitive to the high price of tobacco products . |
| 25 | Those with a nervous disposition and who are anxious or panicky are more likely to be sensitive to the adverse effects of caffeine . |
| 26 | Firms ’ active balances are more likely to be sensitive to changes in r than individuals ' . |
| 27 | Sjahrir seemed more likely to be acceptable to the Dutch government and late in November he indicated his willingness to begin ‘ tripartite ’ negotiations . |
| 28 | However , increasing use of the structural Funds and institutional arrangements to aid the market process may be more likely to be acceptable to all the member states , as the success of Germany and Japan ( who practise considerable intervention in their economies ) , has indicated the benefits of using such policies . |
| 29 | If governing bodies set up finance committees as part of a school 's organization to meet the requirements of local management , governors and parents are more likely to be able to be involved in management decisions . |
| 30 | That i it would be the people who stood up first and accused the landlords and took the lead in the settling accounts procedure , they were more likely to be able to , to get more in the way of than anybody else , that they would get more land , more erm better quality land the animals , implements etcetera and those sort of , th those peasants who were taking the lead were actually members of the Party were they ? |