Example sentences of "[am/are] as likely to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Men in middle age do this much less often , although surprisingly , in later life those who survive are as likely to be carers as women . |
| 2 | All the new products which can be envisaged , and most of the new services which can be imagined , are as likely to be automated as the old . |
| 3 | It 's hard to divine the facts of her early life since her autobiography , Lady Sings The Blues , is full of tawdry details which are as likely to be figments of a pulp imagination as they are the truth : the way she tells it , she was routinely mistreated and beaten , recruited for a brothel and more or less saved only by a small talent for holding a tune . |
| 4 | And — to us this comes as a surprise — witches are as likely to be men as women . |
| 5 | A causal explanation for these events is not to be found by looking at the mental processes of particular social groups or categories involved in them since any traits so identified are as likely to be effects as causes . |