Example sentences of "be [adv] [adv] likely " in BNC.
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| 1 | Temporary workers are rather more likely to be self-employed than is the generality of the labour force . |
| 2 | With respect to fixed-term contract workers , it appears that manufacturing establishments are much less likely than average and service sector establishments are rather more likely than average to make use of them . |
| 3 | With agency workers the situation is reversed : manufacturing establishments are rather more likely than average and service establishments rather less likely than average to use them . |
| 4 | Traditionally , women have been somewhat more likely than men to vote Conservative . |
| 5 | Lawyers do not believe that women jurors are necessarily more likely than men to believe the evidence of alleged rape victims . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In the supermarket packs of food are seldom in single-portion size but are much more likely to be in family economy packs . |
| 11 | This has the unfortunate consequence that they are much more likely to kill their patients than to cure them . |
| 12 | There were no significant differences in the present study between the never and the previously married although it might be expected that people with children might be less likely to go into a home than those without any and the widowed , divorced , or separated are much more likely to have children than the single : 75 per cent compared with 6 per cent . |
| 13 | The chances of having a mentally handicapped child may be considerably heightened , however , under certain circumstances ; for example , older women are much more likely to have Down 's Syndrome babies . |
| 14 | Families with children are much more likely to get into debt than people without children , and there is a greater risk to larger families . |
| 15 | You are much more likely to receive a complete and considered answer if you do this . |
| 16 | The figures also show something about the difference between Ipswich and Newham : that Ipswich people are more likely to have an involved relative/friend , tend to live in housing with better amenities , and are much more likely to own their own houses . |
| 17 | Therefore , whereas prescribing budgets will inevitably be set in the aggregate , taking into account local social and epidemiological factors , both PACT and formularies are much more likely to lead the GP to consider why a particular drug , and not an alternative including no drug , should be given in a particular instance . |
| 18 | Interests are much more likely to provide footholds for finding common ground and moving ahead . |
| 19 | Those with orange eyes are much more likely to be able to hear . |
| 20 | They are much more likely to call their pet feline a ‘ moggie ’ ( sometimes spelt moggy ) . |
| 21 | However we are unlikely to develop a great deal of extra muscle by normal sporting activities ; we are much more likely to improve muscle tone . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But it must be equally obvious that during spells of prolonged rain the rabbits are much more likely to stay underground in the warmth and security of their burrow systems rather than braving it out in the open and being constantly soaked . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | If they borrow money , they are much more likely than early school-leavers to do so from a bank . |
| 27 | As we have seen , they are much more likely than average to have bank accounts . |
| 28 | Our survey shows that people with bank accounts are much more likely than others to shop around for credit , and to use lower-cost forms of credit . |
| 29 | First there are those theorists , notably Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe , who propose that the interiors of comets are much more likely sites for the formation of organic chemicals than the surfaces of planets . |
| 30 | But people are much more likely — and we should stress that only the lunatic fringe is involved — to believe it necessary that those they perceive as only minimally inferior to themselves should be annihilated . |