Example sentences of "less likely to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A hostile article is even less likely to be satisfactory to a reader . |
| 2 | This is because no two patients are likely to have identical injuries , and large groups of patients are even less likely to be homogenous . |
| 3 | Branches dominated by the left are less likely to be racialist , but unfortunately in many areas with large immigrant populations , like Leicester and Loughborough , the important union bureaucracies are controlled by the right wing . |
| 4 | Professional footballers fared little better than cricketers and were less likely to be able to pursue their occupation for as long . |
| 5 | Now I think he 's considerably less likely to be taken for a ride . ’ |
| 6 | Such vaccines are less likely to be toxic than a whole virus vaccine but some researchers believe that they are also less likely to work . |
| 7 | The leadership also has a new control , which makes it less likely to be unhorsed by its own interest-groups than the Callaghan Government was in the late 1970s . |
| 8 | Since those officials are not under the thumb of councillors worried about rates increases , they are less likely to be frugal . |
| 9 | With the others not around , she will be less likely to be assertive to strange dogs . |
| 10 | We have talked in this book about the bereaved person 's need to talk and be recognized as someone having a mourning role , but if few people know us anyway , they are less likely to be aware of the major change in our life and we are less likely to feel able to talk to them about it . |
| 11 | The typical visitor ( paying an adult admission charge of £23 ) is probably less likely to be interested in the architecture of the pavilions than in their contents . |
| 12 | Even if unemployment is only part of the problem , it seems to me that the man who can busy himself cutting peats , or growing crops , or handling stock , is less likely to be depressed , less likely to feel that his life has no meaning , than a man who has empty days to fill in the back streets of an industrial town |
| 13 | In a review of reconviction rates , for example , a Home Office report concluded : ‘ Those given probation orders were therefore less likely to be reconvicted within two years of being given probation than those released from custody ’ ( Home Office , 1986 , p. 5 ) . |
| 14 | But they did not get more help from community nurses and they were less likely to be admitted to , or to die in , a hospital or hospice . |
| 15 | ( 1988 ) found that few married people applied for residential care and those who did so were less likely to be admitted than applicants who were single or widowed . |
| 16 | Data in Table 2 suggest that those with living brothers or sisters may be less likely to be admitted to a home . |
| 17 | A harem travelling with others is not only less likely to be the one attacked but , at least at the onset of the bachelors ' approach , the male can count on the participation of other harem males in ‘ yelping chases ’ that deter the attackers . |
| 18 | He found in his research on Mexican unions that there was no direct link between union affiliation and militancy , in other words the unions that were controlled from above were not less likely to be militant . |
| 19 | It has a steadier will less likely to be tainted by bias , weakness or impetuosity , less likely to be diverted from right reason by temptations or pressures . |
| 20 | It has a steadier will less likely to be tainted by bias , weakness or impetuosity , less likely to be diverted from right reason by temptations or pressures . |
| 21 | In households where the head is unemployed , other household members are less likely to be in employment . |
| 22 | The domestic duties of women who work part-time are very similar to those who are not in paid employment and in both cases are less likely to be shared by both partners . |
| 23 | Both males and females are less likely to be widowed , but much more likely to be divorced . |
| 24 | Although many lone parents work , Table 4 shows that earnings from employment are less likely to be their main source of income than they are for two parent families although for both groups this will be affected by fluctuations in employment and unemployment . |
| 25 | Women are less likely to be in paid employment than men . |
| 26 | The first suggestion implies that context pre-exposure should make subsequently acquired latent inhibition less likely to be context-specific — subjects need to be prepared to learn about the context if context-specificity is to occur . |
| 27 | I would prefer an analogue contents display because it is more eye-catching and less likely to be misread . |
| 28 | The extract from the file on Tweed you sent with the courier made the point he often stays at top places because he thinks he 's less likely to be noticed . ’ |
| 29 | In this respect the cinematic sign differs radically from the language of literature , where images are less likely to be taken at only the literal level . |
| 30 | One interpretation must be that voluntary work is viewed as rather less significant , in the sense that some old person doing a little forest conservation is less likely to be as dangerous as the ancient quack prescribing cupping or the antiquated magistrate consigning culprits to the stocks . |