Example sentences of "much [adv] likely [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pensioners were anyway much less likely than others to have used many sources of credit , though the types of credit for which their awareness was relatively high were moneylenders , mail order , shop accounts and tallymen . |
| 2 | They were much less likely than younger people to be interviewed by job centre staff , and , if interviewed , they were more likely to be told their prospects of getting work were nil . |
| 3 | In previous generations it was much less likely than it is now that grandparents would have lived to know their grandchildren as adults ( see chapters 2 and 3 ) . |
| 4 | It is the case that typical households in the later part of the twentieth century are much less likely than they were in earlier times to contain anyone other than the conjugal family . |
| 5 | Although some could do this through using their savings or drawing on insurances , many could not , with women much less likely than men to be able to support themselves by these means ( Roebuck and Slaughter , 1979 ) . |
| 6 | In other words , the younger children were much less likely than the older children to respond to an inadequate message with a request for further information . |
| 7 | Although , as we have noted , women are much less likely than men to select back variants of /a/ , this generally lower level of use does not prevent individual women from varying their realization of /a/ , within the female norms , according to their social network structure . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Since women are much less likely than men to be employed full-time , to be in highly paid secure jobs or to hold managerial or professional posts , they are less likely to be members of occupational pension schemes . |
| 10 | Buyers are much less likely than the sector average to buy a Clio because they ‘ always buy the same ’ . |
| 11 | After the Edinburgh summit , that looks much less likely than it did and that can only be good news for Courtaulds . |
| 12 | That may happen ( though it usually does not ) where there are three to be filled , is much less likely if there are four , and almost unheard-of if there are five . |
| 13 | Economists worry that even higher rates would make a prolonged recession much more likely than at present . |
| 14 | If women were much more likely than men to be in low status jobs , and if female employees almost never went absent from work , it might seem that people doing low status jobs were no more likely or even less likely than others to absence . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | If they borrow money , they are much more likely than early school-leavers to do so from a bank . |
| 17 | The main survey showed that women were anyway much more likely than men to say they would prefer weekly payments to monthly — a factor which , as we have seen , tends to narrow someone 's choice to the exclusion of some relatively low-cost types of credit . |
| 18 | As we have seen , they are much more likely than average to have bank accounts . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But even allowing for this , current users of credit cards were much more likely than non-users to say they are easy to understand and use , convenient and make shopping simple ; and more likely to say that they encourage people to spend too much . |
| 21 | Current users of bank loans were much more likely than non-users to say that they are convenient for expensive goods , and more likely to say they are easy to understand and use and make shopping simple . |
| 22 | Users of mail order were much more likely than non-users to say it is convenient for people who are not well off , easy to understand and use , and makes shopping simple . |
| 23 | Either is an expression of a painful emotional attitude , but the second is much more likely than the first to arouse defensiveness . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | Indeed , they were much more likely than their younger counterparts to have expressed satisfaction with the firm and its management . |
| 26 | But female psychologists are much more likely than male psychologists always to be seen as some male psychologist 's prize student . |
| 27 | For example , older children were much more likely than younger ones to overlap with their parents in adult life , whereas for younger children there was a good chance that , by the time they were grown up , their parents would be dead . |
| 28 | Elite theorists argue more generally than pluralists that where elites can not act with a considerable degree of autonomy in deeply divided societies , centrifugal tendencies are much more likely than centripetal ones ( Nordlinger , 1972 ) . |
| 29 | Older people were much more likely than the young to be unable to describe what they meant by health . |
| 30 | They are much more likely than men to be confined to housework within the household for which no wages at all are paid . |