Example sentences of "likely [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The average black boy is more likely to go to prison than university . |
| 2 | One faintly ludicrous example is a 1993 case where the Court of Appeal said that a sentence passed on a Mr Fairman would ‘ indicate to other people who might be minded to set fire to armchairs in the middle of a domestic row that if they do , they were likely to go to prison for as long as two years ’ . |
| 3 | these figures do not show that black people are more prone crime , but they do suggest that black people who offend are more likely to go to prison . |
| 4 | Contract negotiations between the trust and consortium , which pays for patient care in the area , have reached deadlock and are likely to go to arbitration . |
| 5 | If this happens at night , go to ground , shelter yourself as best you can and go looking for help the next day unless you 're likely to freeze to death in the meantime . |
| 6 | However , a person who based his or her sense of worth entirely on achievement would be much more likely to succumb to depression in the event of such employment problems . |
| 7 | An American clinical study ( Anderson and White , 1986 ) also suggests that problems in step families are more likely to relate to parenting issues between adults and children than to the parents ' marital relationship . |
| 8 | Similarly , ‘ abuse of a dominant position ’ in Article 86 of EC law is likely to relate to advantage taken of monopolistic power in imposing terms . |
| 9 | Alcohol misuse is more likely to come to light via marital disputes , repeated driving offences , accidents , absenteeism and progressive inability to cope at work . |
| 10 | Though earlier examples may be found , those of the eighteenth century are more likely to come to hand fairly often , e.g. , The Tatler , begun in 1709 , The Spectator ( 1711 ) and The Guardian ( 1712 ) . |
| 11 | The persistently troublesome problems and the large spot discharges are the pollutions which are likely to come to agency attention . |
| 12 | The most modified milks are the whey-based formulas such as SMA Gold Cap , Aptamil , Osterfeed and Cow & Gate Premium and these are less likely to lead to allergy . |
| 13 | The assumption that they do not know how to run their house properly , or how to feed their families , or manage their money , is likely to lead to rejection . |
| 14 | Almost 80 per cent of Tory voters say they are unlikely to change parties if the NHS plans go ahead , but 70 per cent believe the proposals are likely to lead to privatisation of the NHS , with 62 per cent seeing the changes leading to worse standards of care and treatment . |
| 15 | Once you begin to understand some of the antecedent events that control your own eating behaviour you will be able to plan out a positive approach , by working out those antecedent events most likely to lead to success . |
| 16 | Some common strategies likely to lead to success are listed below : |
| 17 | There is some evidence that the sexually transmitted form of hepatitis is more likely to lead to liver damage than that passed on by means of blood products . |
| 18 | Alternatively , it may only be when family relationships are poor that the inherited predisposition is likely to lead to schizophrenia . |
| 19 | The phrase " similar " is likely to lead to difficulty . |
| 20 | Until then , having to provide a system of education which is nominally continuous but in terms of reality , disconnected and without knowing the full extent of its effects , is likely to lead to misunderstanding and tension . |
| 21 | Ties with extended kin are very much a matter of personal choice ; those with members of one 's nuclear family are more enduring and more likely to lead to responsibility for care . |
| 22 | In short , the lowered or lost earnings of many women care-givers are likely to lead to poverty and to increased financial dependency — on a spouse , on an earning sibling , or on the person being cared for . |
| 23 | It is therefore the more academically able who will have the education and occupational aspirations likely to lead to out-migration . |
| 24 | Such conditions would be likely to lead to absence from work . |
| 25 | Even when wrong answers are not accepted , the ‘ blind ’ alteration of bindings in response to implausibility is likely to lead to inefficiency , as reasoning can be expensive . |
| 26 | But if we look at the air conditioning explanations we we reckon that the conditions likely to lead to sickness and , and the related illnesses that were mentioned er was , the low humidity that that we thought might er , be in the area erm , because it dries out the and enables viruses to enter the body more more easily . |
| 27 | Direct contact is most likely to lead to infection of the skin , conjunctiva or mucous membrane . |
| 28 | The debate is , in other words , about whether the new technology is likely to lead to proletarianisation or professionalisation of workers . |
| 29 | Crane , however , argues 45 that affiliation to a prestigious university is more likely to lead to recognition for a scientist than higher productivity . |
| 30 | Crane , however , argues that affiliation to a prestigious university is more likely to lead to recognition for a scientist than higher productivity . |