Example sentences of "[adv] more likely " in BNC.
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| 1 | His more contemporary recollection , however , placed the farmhouse ‘ a quarter of a mile from Culbone Church ’ , a description which has almost always been said to identify Ash Farm , but which is perhaps more likely to refer to the former Withycombe Farm . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | However , we believe that those who are determined to understand a phenomenon and to follow their research and their intuition wherever they may lead , are on the balance of probabilities , perhaps more likely to come up with new knowledge than those who are trying to solve a narrowly defined problem or to develop a product . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The sort of standardisation described above can happen however the delivery of care is organised , but it is perhaps more likely to occur with some ways of delivering care , or delivery systems than with others . |
| 6 | However , even outer clothing must have required fastening and such wear would also have arisen if they were worn on undergarments in such a way as to come into contact with the inner face of the coarse outer garments ; such extreme wear is perhaps more likely to have occurred in this way than on the outside . |
| 7 | The other , perhaps more likely , possibility is that , far from becoming the ‘ borderless world ’ that Ohmae ( 1990 ) foresees , these major industries may become more susceptible to government influence . |
| 8 | It has been suggested that the paranotal lobes of insects were at first connected with epigamic behaviour ( Alexander and Brown , 1963 ) but it is perhaps more likely that they were associated with locomotion from the beginning . |
| 9 | The word means flower in Persian , but is perhaps more likely to have been derived from the ancient Turkish word for family or clan . |
| 10 | 632–3 for Honorius ' appointment is perhaps more likely . |
| 11 | Thus , in the context of consensual sexual activity with a girl under the age of 16 , it states : ‘ Most of us think that acts such as oral sex are extremely serious ( perhaps more likely to disturb a young girl meeting them for the first time than sexual intercourse ) . ’ |
| 12 | It is perhaps more likely that Freeman has been deceived by the fact that the linguistic patterning of King Lear so under-determines how it is to be interpreted that it is compatible with his and a large number of other theories of metaphor which all equally predict it , and hence appear to explain it . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Joan is a firm supporter of new varieties ; they are much more likely to stay in good health as they 're bred with inbuilt resistance to canker and other diseases . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Giving up smoking together too is much more likely to be successful than if you have to struggle alone . |
| 17 | Not only are you much more likely to die from lung cancer or heart disease , but other illnesses highlighted in this booklet , including cervical cancer , are associated with smoking . |
| 18 | A much more likely explanation of Libet 's findings is simply that all experiences are delayed relative to the stimulus causing them , so that synchronous external events produce synchronous experiences . |
| 19 | ‘ We must have a five-point plan for autumn safety : 1 ) Get all poisonous plants clearly labelled ; 2 ) Put government health warnings on toadstools ; 3 ) Secure all dangerous-looking branches ; 4 ) Spread polythene sheets beneath all major leaf-producing trees ; 5 ) Have a national warning system for cold days on which apples , conkers and so on , are much more likely to fall out of the trees and cause these horrendous injuries . ’ |
| 20 | Economists worry that even higher rates would make a prolonged recession much more likely than at present . |
| 21 | Another rise in interest rates would make recession much more likely without necessarily ensuring a rapid easing of inflation . |
| 22 | Older people were much more likely to give high ratings to politicians of all kinds and , to a lesser extent , to parties of all kinds . |
| 23 | Overworked officials in finance ministries rarely reject a whole list of potential projects ; they are much more likely to identify a few priorities at random , and pass on the donor to the line ministry , hoping for the best if and when the project is financed . |
| 24 | That would be much more likely if Mr Gorbachev could reduce his conventional forces and weaponry in the Warsaw Pact . |
| 25 | It must also be remembered that death usually took place in the home , not only because nineteenth century parents preferred it , but also because , before the development of antisepsis in practical nursing in the last quarter of the century , to send a patient to hospital was much more likely to prove fatal than keeping him at home . |
| 26 | In the supermarket packs of food are seldom in single-portion size but are much more likely to be in family economy packs . |
| 27 | Secretly , though I had every sympathy for Surkov , I thought him much more likely to have raped a woman when drunk than Miss Hayes-Drummond was to have made a false accusation . |
| 28 | This has the unfortunate consequence that they are much more likely to kill their patients than to cure them . |
| 29 | The seminal thinking on this problem is much more likely to come from the periphery than the centre . |
| 30 | Presumably it is much more likely that such a problem would be picked up by professionals involved in a family , but it underlines the fact that children who are failing to thrive are very much at risk unless they are being taken to the clinic , for example , or are being seen regularly in the home by a Health Visitor . |