Example sentences of "likely than [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ( 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 . ) |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Both mothers and fathers of children admitted into care were more likely than a comparison group to have a psychiatric disorder . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | Students of communications , instrumentation , special applications and ( marginally ) computing were more likely than the rest to be seeking work . |
| 9 | ‘ What job is it you have here that makes you so much more likely than the rest of your family to attain a Mercedes ? ’ |
| 10 | Buyers are much less likely than the sector average to buy a Clio because they ‘ always buy the same ’ . |
| 11 | SERC funded students in both specialist and conversion courses were more likely than the average to be continuing their studies . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 : |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | People with disabilities are more likely than the non-disabled to experience poverty , have lower incomes and fewer assets . |