Example sentences of "[adv] likely [to-vb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In general , simple cottage garden type flowers are the best ; highly bred double varieties and hybrids are less likely to give a good seed crop . |
| 2 | Those who lived with a younger married couple were about five times less likely to receive a home-help visit than an elderly married couple . |
| 3 | Amongst Mirror readers , there was no difference between Labour and Conservative identifiers in their perception of the Mirror 's anti-Conservative bias , though Conservative Mirror readers were somewhat less likely to detect a pro-Labour bias . |
| 4 | If I 'd been buying my fist laser today , the poor benighted soul would be less likely to endure a coronary , since , for less than one thousand pounds I could nip out and buy a very nicely specified machine . |
| 5 | In addition , hosts in sympatry were less likely to reject a mimetic model egg than a non-mimetic one . |
| 6 | Size of establishment and type of authority were again associated with the presence of this potential resource so that the authorities who were less advantaged in terms of their own resources were also less likely to have a strong centre of training expertise to turn to . |
| 7 | They were less likely to have a general practitioner with an interest in diabetes ( χ 2 =21.7 , df=1 ; p<0.00001 ) or to attend a practice with a miniclinic ( χ 2 =42.6 , df=1 ; p<0.00001 ) . |
| 8 | Compared with the other great all-rounders of his time , Imran Khan , Richard Hadlee and Kapil Dev , he is certainly the best batsman and best slip fielder , but Hadlee and Imran are more dangerous bowlers , and much less likely to have a bad day . |
| 9 | However , when these figures are broken down , it can be seen that certain groups , such as single women over 75 , are less likely to have an occupational pension , and , if they do , the average amount is less . |
| 10 | The older groups are less likely to have contributed to such a scheme while they were in the labour force , and are therefore less likely to have an occupational pension . |
| 11 | As a result , the predator is far less likely to attack a second individual of this type of prey . |
| 12 | Lifetable analysis of the truncated survival curve ( which excludes one placebo and one cisapride recurrence ) also indicates that patients taking cisapride were less likely to develop a recurrent ulcer over the study period than those receiving placebo ( χ 2 =3.673 , p=0.055 log rank test ) . |
| 13 | The main disadvantage is that the range and quality of items on offer is often limited , and although there are usually good examples of the most popular groups , you are less likely to find a wide selection of village and nomadic rugs . |
| 14 | Take any one of these four ingredients away and you will be much less likely to find a close corporatist tie up between particular interests and the state in pursuit of increased state intervention . |
| 15 | The voice is less likely to become a thin , breathless squeak . |
| 16 | If you have naturally fair skin , accept that you are only likely to achieve a light tan on a two-week holiday . |
| 17 | Tramps and dossers are not likely to organize a powerful protest lobby to Parliament to complain about intrusion into their private lives and criminals are even less likely to take legal action ( though they will consider illegal retaliation ) . |
| 18 | It can be difficult to justify spending a large large amount of course time on design , but asking colleagues in design institutions to recommend or teach a useful ( and usable ) subset of document design to occupy just a few hours is not likely to elicit an encouraging response . |
| 19 | All was underpinned by the widespread belief that local councillors were not likely to take a progressive view on educational policy , such matters as the arts or the preservation of historic buildings , and that local authority officials were less competent than their counterparts in Whitehall . |
| 20 | Obtaining private funds is not likely to create an insurmountable hurdle in itself . |
| 21 | Such spectacles were not likely to encourage an educated view of the treasures displayed . |
| 22 | It is the uncircumcised male who is most likely to acquire an actual infection with C. albicans , but , like the female , he does not have to develop symptoms . |
| 23 | This group emerged as the most likely to obtain a good degree . |
| 24 | In addition , samples containing granulomatous lesions from patients with acute disease should be most likely to contain a causative pathogen . |
| 25 | These latter environments are precisely those in which /a/ is also most likely to have a low front short value . |
| 26 | Since CNAA reports were always likely to reach a wide readership they ‘ must be based on conclusive evidence and should not identify individuals for serious criticism in a manner which can not allow them to defend themselves in accordance with the established rule of law ’ . |
| 27 | The more immediate concern is that the student 's lecturers , who are themselves practitioners of the discipline , are hardly likely to mount a penetrating attack on their own intellectual home . |
| 28 | But a handful of feminist teachers are hardly likely to have a radical effect on the entire educational milieu . |
| 29 | He laughed and said , ‘ One of our foremost counsellors is hardly likely to have an innocent man imprisoned . ’ |
| 30 | Large libraries were just as likely as small ones to want more training officers ' time , even though they were far more likely to employ a designated training officer ( or someone who devoted at least a quarter of their time to training ) . |