Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [adv] likely to be " in BNC.

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1 we 'd be more likely to be able to make it .
2 Data in Table 2 suggest that those with living brothers or sisters may be less likely to be admitted to a home .
3 They may be less likely to be put off enrolling on alternative courses .
4 ( As migrants were already on courses they may be less likely to be thinking of taking up another one at present . )
5 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 .
6 I would be most likely to be extravagant on the following :
7 The next logical step was to present the bream with a small hook and bait which would be more likely to be right inside their lips when they began to carry it off , but to still retain the heaviness so that they could not manage it with a mere suck .
8 Kit Widdows admitted to a little gentle crusading taking place here , being convinced that people would be more likely to be encouraged to come to church when they saw people enacting something that had a meaning for them and that they obviously enjoyed doing rather than being approached by someone knocking on their door .
9 Two in five employers said that a woman the same age and with the same skills as a man would be more likely to be turned down because of her age .
10 Hamilton argued that , because selection is stronger on earlier ages , alleles with advantageous effects early in life would be more likely to be fixed by selection than those with a later age of action , an argument that implies that populations are continually adapting , and so are not in equilibrium .
11 Erm , so there 's all kinds of reasons why children from such situations would be more likely to be in trouble but I do n't think there 's evidence to say that it 's because of from lone parents .
12 A minimum number of three cycles is needed to estimate variability , and women with low waist-hip ratios — that is more fertile women — would be more likely to be excluded from such an analysis , leading to an under–estimation of the relation between waist-hip ratio and fecundity .
13 Erm some women tend to have more pitch variation and they 're more emotional so they 're more likely to use encouraging tones er which can sometimes be seen to be slightly patronizing , whereas boys think it 's soppy to be emotional or expressive way , so that if you 're in school and you 're asking people to read out in class , erm a girl would be more likely to be more expressive , whereas a boy would be a little bit more monotonous , and just sort of read it out and not put any emotion into it .
14 In Re Hammond & Waterton ( 1890 ) 62 LT 808 the court said that if a building dispute were referred to an umpire who was a barrister the procedure would be more likely to be an arbitration , and that if the umpire were a quantity surveyor it would be more likely to be a valuation .
15 In Re Hammond & Waterton ( 1890 ) 62 LT 808 the court said that if a building dispute were referred to an umpire who was a barrister the procedure would be more likely to be an arbitration , and that if the umpire were a quantity surveyor it would be more likely to be a valuation .
16 For example , an ambiguous stop segment at the beginning of would be less likely to be identified as than if it were at the beginning of .
17 With the others not around , she will be less likely to be assertive to strange dogs .
18 In a business sale , the buyer will be less likely to be able to take advantage of the implied warranty , particularly because he may well be as expert as the seller in dealing with the goods which are the subject matter of the contract , and so will not ( or it will not be reasonable for him to ) rely on the seller 's judgment and skill .
19 This then becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy , police officers , magistrates and social workers will be more likely to be stricter with female offenders ; and thus more females will be convicted of crimes .
20 Management as a process appears to be understood as being about taking decisions which will be more likely to be unpopular than those taken by lower ranks , i.e. , middle managers , whose task it is to mediate higher decisions by making them palatable in some way .
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