Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] be [adv] likely " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strike up some personal rapport with the person in charge Of the centre so that he or she is more likely to go that extra mile for you . |
| 2 | Give me a six foot tank and I 'm more likely to put a shoal of small 25mm Tetras into it , along with a few Dwarf Cichlids and Corydoras , than use it for one or two larger fish . |
| 3 | ‘ And I 'm hardly likely to forget that . |
| 4 | Even so , the upward trend in direct sales extends to software , and you are increasingly likely to be able to buy accounting software by mail order . |
| 5 | It is much worse than a judge at Cruft 's checking over the points of a Pomeranian or Pekinese , and you are more likely to be bitten . |
| 6 | IT 'S Friday the 13th tomorrow — and you are more likely to have car problems than on any other day . |
| 7 | It 's important to keep to this organisation — it will help you give change more quickly , and you are less likely to make mistakes ( eg giving a customer 10p instead of 50p ) . |
| 8 | The standard BC109 quotes a range of 180 to 800 and you are less likely to find you have a suitable device . |
| 9 | Use one of the proprietary woodworm injectors for this , as their special nozzles are designed to fit the holes and you are less likely to risk an eyeful of the fluid . |
| 10 | And you 're most likely , here not just for communion but because it 's your custom to come to the six thirty service . |
| 11 | ‘ I doubt if you 'll have heard of a Romany having a magistrate removed from office either , Mr Peck , but make one arrest here and you 're very likely to be the first . ’ |
| 12 | And you 're less likely to catch your hands then . |
| 13 | And you 're more likely to be accepted by your peers . |
| 14 | THE Chippendales might be great movers on stage but follow their fitness video and you 're more likely to feel the pain than the burn . |
| 15 | To check the registration , look closely at the horizontal lines on the screen , preferably against a white background ; if they have red and green edges it means that the registration is out , and you 're more likely to develop eyestrain . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Give a dog ( so to speak ) a bad name , treat him or her accordingly — by having a confrontation or using a suspicious manner — and we are quite likely to trigger a hostile , resentful reaction that confirms our original opinion . |
| 18 | In prose fiction , a more dialogic genre , various shifts of deictic centre occur ( that is , from character to character ) and we are more likely to see deictic terms verified intra-textually — for example , pronominal reference given a full cataphoric form . |
| 19 | That 's that 's right , I mean I I I would suggest that we 've arrived at that point now , and we 're increasingly likely to do so , because as we 've already heard York is very constrained , it 's it 's it 's a relatively small , compact , historic city , the greenbelt boundaries are drawn fairly tightly , correctly in so in in my opinion , and there 's really not much room for manoeuvre within with er in a existing settlements within the greenbelt . |
| 20 | and they 're more likely to give more money to us |
| 21 | These men rate themselves fitter than those who came to sex late and they 're less likely to consider themselves overweight . |
| 22 | And they are also likely to be healthier in old age , and have better access to good diet and medical assistance . |
| 23 | It is easier to space the seedlings , and they are less likely to become overcrowded before you prick them out . |
| 24 | Making love , walking the dog or knocking a squash ball about will do the job as effectively as a stiff drink , and they are less likely to hasten your demise . |
| 25 | So , there is an overall decline but technology may be selectively affecting those who are partially-hearing and they are less likely to appear in the statistics for special education ( DES , 1981 ) . |
| 26 | Their numbers are comparatively small , most receive cautions and they are less likely to make it to court . |
| 27 | Properties are older and more likely to be terraced houses or flats ; they have fewer rooms but more people per room ; and they are less likely to have a garden . |
| 28 | Workers rationally support capitalism as long as they believe it best advances their material interests , and they are always likely to do so , given the costs of the transition to socialism . |
| 29 | Compared to whites , blacks are less likely to acquire educational qualifications , their marriages are more likely to end in separation or divorce and they are more likely to have a criminal record . |
| 30 | Daytime and mixed day and night wetters have certain aetiological differences from night wetters , although there is much overlap : they are more likely to have had an adverse perinatal history , their bladder capacity tends to be smaller , and they are more likely to suffer urinary tract infection . |