Example sentences of "[adv] more likely to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Goosanders are found on both fresh and salt water , near the coast and well inland , but they are rather rare on the open sea and are perhaps more likely to be seen c-n salt water in very cold weather . |
| 2 | The section , ‘ The family ’ , is perhaps more likely to be explored in terms of an imaginary one — the family in a story or rhyme , or the family of dolls that lives in the doll 's house . |
| 3 | If the Security Council excludes from the new tribunal 's jurisdiction such larger crimes , which are perhaps more likely to be committed by higher state officials , the resulting trials may end up dealing only with the small fry while the big fish get away . |
| 4 | While other chaps sing the praises of Meryl Streep , Joely Richardson or Gabriela Sabatini , I 'm much more likely to be found getting worked up over worms . |
| 5 | Giving up smoking together too is much more likely to be successful than if you have to struggle alone . |
| 6 | In the supermarket packs of food are seldom in single-portion size but are much more likely to be in family economy packs . |
| 7 | Both males and females are less likely to be widowed , but much more likely to be divorced . |
| 8 | On the other hand , there were much more likely to be single children still living at home . |
| 9 | That next-door neighbour dabbler you are so concerned about is much more likely to be involved in the ‘ soft-occult ’ , and may still be open to a little reasoning . |
| 10 | Much more likely to be a timber boat . |
| 11 | Or , as is much more likely to be the truth of the matter , evidence of the parents ' fear that they might be depriving the child of some advantage if the ritual is omitted . |
| 12 | Those with orange eyes are much more likely to be able to hear . |
| 13 | The rabbits are much more likely to be below ground after a snowfall , since they become very much more vulnerable on the surface with their cover blotted out and their feeding areas restricted . |
| 14 | Nowadays the public attitude is much more likely to be : I must be in the house at 10.30 to watch Sports Report or whatever . |
| 15 | Competition in a market with few suppliers , none of them controlling the market but each relatively large ( oligopoly ) is much more likely to be distorted if one of those suppliers takes over or acquires an interest in another , than in a market characterised by fierce competition among many suppliers . |
| 16 | You will also have to be prepared to overlook sudden flashes of anger or periods of irritability which may seem to be aimed at you but which are much more likely to be an expression of her natural resentment of the disaster that has befallen her . |
| 17 | If there are to be significant changes in people 's experience of work in the future , these are , concludes Gallie , much more likely to be brought about by changes in cultural values , in institutional arrangements , or in management attitudes or trade union objectives ( Gallie 1978 , 317 ) . |
| 18 | So , although only a minority of people deciding about credit reckon that its cost is of primary importance , insofar as they do consider the cost of credit they are very much more likely to be swayed by the amount of each instalment and the length of the repayment period than by other cost factors . |
| 19 | The eldest daughter , even if she is not the eldest child , is much more likely to be asked by her mother to help in the care of younger children than is an eldest son . |
| 20 | A supernova , by contrast , would have been a ‘ one-off ’ phenomenon — and hence much more likely to be the herald of the arrival of someone of importance . |
| 21 | Several studies have shown that crabs in shells which were too small for them were much more likely to be eaten by predators . |
| 22 | However , single-person households with , for example , an income consisting only of a single person 's state pension are much more likely to be found in the older age groups than in the younger ones . |
| 23 | A school which is seen to be supporting its clients is much more likely to be supported in turn , by the community it is there to serve . |
| 24 | They were also much more likely to be unemployed — whilst 30 per cent of the white 16 — 19 year olds were out of work , 46 per cent of the West Indians and 35 per cent of the Asians in the same age group were . |
| 25 | She is able to show that both women and men are much more likely to be living with relatives after a marriage has ended than during it . |
| 26 | Of course often they also fall into the first two categories mentioned , but it seems that household membership operates separately in relation to giving assistance , so that a particular child who shares a home with their parent is much more likely to be giving personal care than their siblings . |
| 27 | Even where there is an apparent choice between a male and female relative , women are much more likely to be carers — daughters and even daughters-in-law rather than sons ( Henwood and Wicks , 1985 ; Parker , 1985 ; Ungerson , 1987 ) . |
| 28 | For example in the case of people of Asian origin living in Britain , the expectation is much more likely to be that the main supportive bond , especially in respect of financial support , will be between sons and parents . |
| 29 | Since paid work still is much more likely to be distributed this way than the reverse , there is a built-in tendency for caring responsibilities to fall on women , even without cultural expectations that women are particularly suited to these tasks . |
| 30 | His work demonstrates that an older person was much more likely to be taken into the household of a relative if they were able to contribute something in return , for example doing domestic work , or looking after children while their mother went out to a job . |