Example sentences of "likely [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A similar result is likely where the witness is suspected of complicity in a fraudulent scheme , especially where he can be regarded as the ‘ real ’ plaintiff . |
| 2 | With hindsight , therefore , only one outcome was likely although the struggle was often violent and bloody . |
| 3 | There is no sharp division of duties between senior lecturer and lecturer , but a senior lecturer is , in general , more likely than a lecturer to hold such posts as dean or head of department , or to chair university committees . |
| 4 | ( At the extremes , a child of professional parents was about 20 times more likely than a child of semi-skilled and unskilled workers to enter full-time higher education . ) |
| 5 | It would be possible to resolve the pronoun here by reasoning that a dog biting a vet is much more likely than a vet biting a dog ( or , indeed , of either of them biting himself ) . |
| 6 | Lack of care is often repeated : ex-care women in their study were considerably more likely than a comparison group to suffer a breakdown in their own role as parents , resulting in one in five of their children also being admitted into institutional care . |
| 7 | Both mothers and fathers of children admitted into care were more likely than a comparison group to have a psychiatric disorder . |
| 8 | Firstly , their income is less likely than the rest of the population to come from earnings from employment ; and more likely to be derived from pensions from the state or from past employers or from savings . |
| 9 | Thus , for example , when asked whether or not they would describe their own redundancy as genuinely voluntary , the oldest group ( those over 65 when interviewed ) were much more likely than the rest to say ‘ yes ’ ( 83 per cent compared with 46 per cent of those aged 55–59 and 65 per cent of those aged 60–64 ) . |
| 10 | Students of communications , instrumentation , special applications and ( marginally ) computing were more likely than the rest to be seeking work . |
| 11 | ‘ What job is it you have here that makes you so much more likely than the rest of your family to attain a Mercedes ? ’ |
| 12 | Buyers are much less likely than the sector average to buy a Clio because they ‘ always buy the same ’ . |
| 13 | SERC funded students in both specialist and conversion courses were more likely than the average to be continuing their studies . |
| 14 | According to the information collected to date , students in the two largest subject areas , computing and micro-electronics , were more likely than the average to be in employment . |
| 15 | However , on the basis of Table 7.5 , and recognising some of the very small numbers involved , research students in the following areas were less likely than the average to be seeking employment : |
| 16 | A doctor of medicine is in the same social class as a company director but is more likely than the director to be accorded some degree of deference by the local community . |
| 17 | People with disabilities are more likely than the non-disabled to experience poverty , have lower incomes and fewer assets . |
| 18 | All unused terms must be included in the entry vocabulary of an index ; that is , they must be present as access points in some form if it is considered at all likely that a user might seek information under the unused term . |
| 19 | But it seemed likely that a scandal of some sort would eventually break . |
| 20 | In a country where infant mortality is low , it is expected that children will live into adulthood and outlive their parents , so that there will not be a time when it seems likely that a child will die before their parents . |
| 21 | So far , thankfully , there is no sign that the technique makes it any more likely that a child will be born with congenital defects . |
| 22 | Anything that makes it more likely that a child will behave in a particular way . |
| 23 | It is likely that a procedure in which search statements were split into portions which match subject heading subfields as well as into ( weak-stemmed ) words would be something of an improvement . |
| 24 | It is more likely that a kid will die than reach sexual maturity at three years old . |
| 25 | It is likely that a structure which was appropriate to an organisation at a particular stage in its development will become less so as it matures . |
| 26 | Each additional child makes it more likely that a couple who are not already local authority tenants will become so . |
| 27 | It is also likely that a veto would produce severe strains in the relationship between Edinburgh and London . |
| 28 | If the mother denigrates her husband , it is more likely that a boy will become particularly anxious ( Wolff , 1983b ) . |
| 29 | It was not likely that a man who had come to Germany only a few weeks before would be given carte blanche to say what he liked . |
| 30 | If there is a clear pause ( silence ) between ‘ John ’ and ‘ is it you ’ , then according to the definition of an utterance given in the last chapter , there are two utterances ; however , it is quite likely that a speaker would say ‘ John is it you ’ with no pause , so that the four syllables would make up a single utterance . |