Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] likely [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This word is sometimes used with the sense of forming a conclusion or deduction , e.g. ‘ she left at 8 o'clock , so she must have arrived by now ’ ; when ‘ must ’ is used in this way , it is rather less likely to occur in its weak form than when it is being used in its more familiar sense of ‘ obligation ’ . |
| 2 | Timber which has been properly kiln-seasoned ( which needs expensive kilns and close supervision ) is in no way worse than ‘ naturally ’ seasoned timber and indeed is rather less likely to have picked up the infections of rot during the seasoning process . |
| 3 | Although there is much social and occupational mobility , and our choice of marriage partner is wider than it used to be , we are obviously most likely to meet and continue acquaintance with people used to similar standards of living , values and expectations . |
| 4 | But heavy users of credit were much less likely to label it as expensive . |
| 5 | However , tortious liability is notoriously difficult to predict , and a contract is much less likely to give rise to wasteful disputes . |
| 6 | This makes creditors much less likely to agree to private work-outs . |
| 7 | Those born in countries referred to as the Third World are much less likely to reach what would be considered to be old age . |
| 8 | As a general rule books intended to attract ‘ browsing ’ readers are much less likely to warrant binding . |
| 9 | They were much less likely to say there were laws or regulations protecting people who take out credit agreements , and much more likely not to know whether any action could be taken over some credit agreement which they had signed but later felt was unfair . |
| 10 | Women with power , for example , were much less likely to conform to their role stereotypes than those without ( Bampton 1970:193 ) . |
| 11 | They therefore have much more freedom and scope for accommodation , and are much less likely to conform to the same fixed pattern . |
| 12 | Sheer numbers mean that widows are much less likely to remarry than widowers : there simply are n't enough men of their age around . |
| 13 | People on higher incomes may use quite a wide range of credit sources , but are less likely than average to buy on mail order , much less likely to use HP , and very much more likely to use bank credit cards , bank loans and overdrafts . |
| 14 | If one built a road a lot further out which is the case with the road shown in the structure plan key diagram , use of that road would represent a major diversion for local traffic , which would therefore be much less likely to use it . |
| 15 | People are much less likely to vote in their own interests , much less likely to vote in their class interests if other people know how they 're voting . |
| 16 | People are much less likely to vote in their own interests , much less likely to vote in their class interests if other people know how they 're voting . |
| 17 | Celebrities are much less likely to die from heart attack or stroke , but that is probably only because they die young in other ways . |
| 18 | So I think that disaster preparedness and , and , and making yourself safer comes only when you have quite a large surplus , and that means in the developed countries of the world , like the Californian was much , much less likely to die from an earthquake even though he lives in a very vulnerable part of the world , than perhaps erm a rural person in Central America . |
| 19 | It 's an encouraging if surprising fact that children and young people are much less likely to smoke when parents tell them that they do n't want them to . |
| 20 | J.W.B. Douglas ( 1973 ) found that children who have no stressful event reported in the first four years of life ( especially the third and fourth ) are much less likely to wet their beds than children who have experienced these events . |
| 21 | Those theorists trying to repair the weak interaction should be able to fix it so that the right-handed tau neutrino is much less likely to interact with other matter than the left-handed one is , and thus stays aloof during the big bang . |
| 22 | Compared with the other great all-rounders of his time , Imran Khan , Richard Hadlee and Kapil Dev , he is certainly the best batsman and best slip fielder , but Hadlee and Imran are more dangerous bowlers , and much less likely to have a bad day . |
| 23 | Elderly people living with other , younger people were much less likely to have had a home-help visit in the last month than households containing only elderly people . |
| 24 | d ) Except when flying in good visual conditions ( when the eyes can easily verify your position , attitude and motion , with respect to the surface of the Earth ) bodily sensations are usually unreliable , whereas failure of flight instruments is much less likely to have occurred . |
| 25 | Males are much more likely to have a monosyllabic first name ( Jim , Fred , John ) , and much less likely to have a name of three or more syllables ( Christopher , Nicholas ) . |
| 26 | If we look at the corresponding figures for murders ( which were much less likely to have been concealed ) , there is no sign of any change due to X. This is an example of an artefact due to change in instrumentation ( more complete recording , in this case ) . |
| 27 | If one is of course a member of a minority , let us say , one is a Jew or erm a socialist or erm a South German , erm then one is much more likely to cherish democratic values and federal values , and much less likely to accept authoritarian rule from above . |
| 28 | Unfortunately , ex-care women were much less likely to experience the protective effect of a non-deviant supportive spouse , firstly because they were more likely than comparison women to marry men with problems , and secondly because they were much more likely to be without any kind of spouse . |
| 29 | On the other hand , and with the exception of medical services where , as the LFS also shows , use is made of agency nurses and doctors , public sector establishments of any kind are very much less likely to make use of agency workers . |
| 30 | Whilst the unions ' attempts to regulate the use of the " new " temporary workers might prove successful , their attempts to organise " traditional " temporary workers seem much less likely to bear fruit . |