Example sentences of "likely [prep] [be] successful " in BNC.
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| 1 | Giving up smoking together too is much more likely to be successful than if you have to struggle alone . |
| 2 | The distinction is useful because companies that seize an opportunity in markets outside their domestic base are more likely to be successful than those that react in response to an external factor . |
| 3 | The great advantage of spontaneous housing is its cheapness and , until governments can provide adequate housing with the same attraction , they are not likely to be successful . |
| 4 | Instruction in methods for finding information is most likely to be successful if provided at a point when students are working on a non-library project or course which requires a literature search . |
| 5 | In general , when male animals compete for the attention of females , the biggest males are most likely to be successful ; therefore , as Darwin observed , in species where the males compete , they tend to be bigger than females , as in baboons or in most species of seal . |
| 6 | The third chest has a slightly decayed , but permanent , Magic Lock on it , such that an attempt at mechanical lock-picking is only 50% likely to be successful even if the lock-picker makes his Dex test to pick the lock . |
| 7 | Mission work to civilise the slaves and the extension of responsibilities to the labourers for their own work were only thought likely to be successful if they were cumulative experiences for the slaves . |
| 8 | The National Child Development Study report on disadvantaged children identified children from one-parent families with low incomes and poor housing as less likely to be successful at school than other children ( Wedge and Prosser , 1973 ) . |
| 9 | It was not merely the major items of patronage , such as appointment to the Court of Session , which occasioned deathwatch reports to politicians from the jobhunters , for the health of local officers was as much a matter of careful calculation , and the first to apply was the most likely to be successful when a vacancy occurred . |
| 10 | The OECD ( Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ) has recently argued that governments are not likely to be successful in securing increased public sector efficiency unless there is a greater role for the price mechanism and market forces . |
| 11 | Accordingly we can identify two necessary conditions which must be fulfilled before macroeconomic policies are likely to be successful : |
| 12 | Those young people undertaking YTS at colleges , or on community-based schemes , which were called mode B schemes , were less likely to be successful in entering the labour market when they graduated from their courses ( see the transcript of the BBC TV Panorama programme ‘ Fair play for Britain 's Blacks ’ , 6 July 1987 , p. 3 ) . |
| 13 | Experiments have shown that males which perform the zigzag display at a higher rate ( more swims back and forth per minute ) are more likely to be successful at courtship : a female is more likely to mate with a male whose zigzagging is more energetic . |
| 14 | Alternatively , an SBU may be following a product-differentiation policy , in which case , depending on the type of industry , progress in product development and field tests , success in taking out patents , the results of early market-research tests and various other indicators provide early signals of whether the investment policy is likely to be successful . |
| 15 | Much more research is needed in this area , and it is mostly likely to be successful if finance theorists and corporate strategists collaborate . |
| 16 | As noted earlier in this chapter , and by many authors , including Kanter ( 1983 ) , an attempt to change basic ideologies/schemas of multiple parties is more likely to be successful in times of crisis when it becomes obvious that traditional modes of operation are no longer achieving success . |
| 17 | While even the richest states are anxious to attract or retain TNC investment , they are more likely to be successful in imposing conditions on their operations than less developed states . |
| 18 | Of particular interest , is the finding that , proportionately , women were less likely to seek damages , although , if they did , they were more likely to be successful . |
| 19 | Just because there is a real opportunity area does not mean that all entries into the area are likely to be successful . |
| 20 | With procedures that are only used occasionally it is less likely to be successful and the trained group may even forget their training . |
| 21 | Businesses founded on information of this sort are more likely to be successful than those founded on innovation of a more spectacular sort . |
| 22 | The 11 are ambitious , able and united and , judging by history , are likely to be successful , and the half is a self-disabled United Kingdom . |
| 23 | The belief here is that people have a basic right to control their own destinies and that , if they are allowed to participate in the analysis and design of the system that they will be using , then the implementation , acceptance and operation of the systems are more likely to be successful . |
| 24 | The majority of rooms are shared by two students , and applications from new postgraduates unwilling to share are less likely to be successful . |
| 25 | We recommend liver transplantation as the only treatment likely to be successful in drug related submassive necrosis of the liver . |
| 26 | A more considered approach which involves the salesperson identifying the needs of his or her individual customers and then selling the benefits of the product in order to satisfy those needs is more likely to be successful . |