Example sentences of "you be [adv] [adv] likely [to-vb] " in BNC.
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1 | Not only is it more convenient to pick up the ‘ phone and make contact , you are also more likely to succeed since few people are able to ignore the telephone and leave it unanswered . |
2 | Although you naturally hope to reproduce the desirable qualities , you are just as likely to reproduce the undesirable ones , and not only those of the parents , but those also of the ancestors from some way back . |
3 | You are far more likely to use a method regularly and properly if you feel it is the right one for you . |
4 | If you can simulate attacking and being attacked , then you are far more likely to find out whether your tactics and movements are effective . |
5 | Write these in capital letters rather than your normal handwriting as this will be slower and more deliberate and you are therefore more likely to remember what you have written . |
6 | One of the great things about watching a good comedy show or film is that people around you start laughing and you are much more likely to join in . |
7 | You are much more likely to go for old pine , or oak , tough lacquer or vinyl — at least for several years , but there is no reason why these can not work just as well and create a feeling of their own . |
8 | You are much more likely to receive a complete and considered answer if you do this . |
9 | However , you are much more likely to have your own photographic library with reference shots of all plant and personnel and a collection of possible feature material . |
10 | If your standard way of eating ( or your slimming diet ) includes a mix of proteins , complex carbohydrate , and fresh fruits at each meal , you are much less likely to eat large amounts of refined sugar or the products that contain it . |
11 | While most are displayed on benches , you 're just as likely to turn the corner on , say , a group of bathroom plants complete with bath , or shade-lovers in their very own north-facing living room . |
12 | ‘ You 're not fucking likely to get that ! were Sid 's last words as he walked off in the direction of the latrine . |
13 | If your mind is on the new member of the family you 're probably less likely to concentrate on your own aches and pains , regardless of whether they are physical or psychological . |
14 | What that means is that if you have a spontaneous abortion , you 're much more likely to abort a male than you are to abort a female . |
15 | Some of these words you 're much more likely to use are n't you . |
16 | Some people might argue at a local level rather than a central level , you 're much more likely to get effectiveness at a local level , than of by central dictate . |
17 | And one of the things that these trainings help you is that if you expect something of a child then you 're much more likely to get it ! |
18 | What amazes me is how often they 'll say to me ‘ Thank you very much for treating me like a human being ’ because however drunk they are in the churchyard I always believe that you 're much more likely to get somewhere with somebody if you are polite and kind to them and treat them like a real human being , and you can get into all sorts of fascinating conversations with these people even when they are fairly drunk , because actually they are real human beings , they are n't awful people . |
19 | Under its skin , instead of succulent cuts of prime meat you 're much more likely to get all sorts of other things instead . |
20 | ‘ You 're much more likely to hear John Peel play one of our records than Kiss FM , ’ admits Mercury , ‘ and the people that come to our gigs are more your typical rock fans . |
21 | Erm I do n't know that 's , this is not in any official stats books but it 's just my experience with students ' projects that if you get more than , there 's a sort of critical mass of about , about forty respondents and then you 're much more likely to start showing some interesting statistically significant findings for some reason , erm I do n't quite know why but er it 's one of life 's little mysteries but er so that 's usually if there 's a lot of numerical data what I 'd try and advise people to er to get . |
22 | You see , if you had killed one you were not so likely to betray the others . |