Example sentences of "likely have [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ex-care women studied by Quinton and his colleagues were not only more likely to have parenting problems than other women , however . |
| 2 | He 's about as likely to have sympathy for the devil as he is to have satisfaction . |
| 3 | People who are overweight are more likely to have heart attacks ; there is also a link between certain forms of cancer and people eating too much stodgy food . |
| 4 | Children who smoke are more susceptible to coughs and increased phlegm and are more likely to have chest illnesses than those who do not smoke [ 9 ] . |
| 5 | The combination of lack of access to a car , difficulty in using public transport because of the increased likelihood of disability , and inaccessible location of necessary services , means that older people are both more likely to have difficulty walking and yet more likely to depend on walking as means of getting about . |
| 6 | Children who , for any reason , have difficulty in recognising or naming pictures are therefore likely to have difficulty with both these tests . |
| 7 | The converse of the ‘ human sense ’ theme is the ‘ disembedded task ’ theme : young children are likely to have difficulty with tasks which are divorced from human sense . |
| 8 | Secondly , and more importantly , speakers who are not familiar with the use of weak forms are likely to have difficulty understanding speakers who do use weak forms ; since practically all native speakers of British English use them , learners of the language need to learn about these weak forms to help them to understand what they hear . |
| 9 | Indeed , they may be considered to be much more practical than the visions given to us by politicians and hence may be more likely to have support . |
| 10 | In the Patel villages the men who emigrated were mainly those from lower status groups because they were least likely to have land . |
| 11 | There is a lot of overlap between these measures of sexual activity : people who have had more than 10 sexual partners are the most likely to have sex every day . |
| 12 | These men are most likely to have sex every day and to have had more than 30 sexual partners . |
| 13 | Often these compromise theories state , in effect , that punishment is only justified if it is both deserved and likely to have deterrent effects ( eg von Hirsch , 1976 : chs 5 and 6 ) . |
| 14 | IT 'S Friday the 13th tomorrow — and you are more likely to have car problems than on any other day . |
| 15 | However , many organisations could improve their preventive role by developing their out-reach methods and strengthening links with general practitioners and health visitors or other professional groups likely to have information on people currently facing those events . |
| 16 | Individuals with a hiatal hernia were more likely to have oesophagitis . |
| 17 | With respect to symptoms they were much more likely to have urgency of defecation , 44% having this symptom . |
| 18 | With respect to symptoms they were again much more likely to have urgency of defecation ( 44% v 13% , p<0.001 ) . |
| 19 | Patients who have had previous experience of hypnotherapy ( even if no regression was involved ) are more likely to have confidence in the technique and in its safety , and therefore are often more willing to put themselves in the hands of the therapist and trust their own subconscious . |
| 20 | A recent study revealed that children who smoke are 3 times more likely to have time off school [ 10 ] . |
| 21 | The results are likely to have application in a range of degenerative disorders . . |
| 22 | This poses insurmountable problems of effectively transporting the powder through such a system and therefore they are not likely to have application in the warehouses under consideration . |
| 23 | However , it is unclear if older people , who are least likely to have access to transport , are in favour of this idea . |
| 24 | In addition , middle-class families are more likely to have access to off-Wirral treatment for their children , particularly in the private health sector . |
| 25 | The patients having shared care involving attendance at a hospital clinic were less likely to have access to a community dietitian ( χ 2 =44.3 , df=1 ; p<0.00001 ) , a hospital dietitian ( χ 2 =6.9 , df=1 ; p=0.008 ) , or a practice nurse with dietetic skills ( χ 2 =18.6 , df=1 ; p=0.00003 ) . |
| 26 | This section looks at those you are most likely to have access to and suggests ways of assessing their suitability as an aid to language learning . |
| 27 | Qualitative research has shown that drug users not in contact with treatment services are less likely to have access to sterile equipment and so are more likely to try to clean and reuse syringes . |
| 28 | The defendants were presumably outside the class of people who were likely to have access to the information publicly . |
| 29 | Second , both c-Jun and the DNA-PK are nuclear DNA-binding proteins , and therefore are likely to have access to one another inside the cell . |
| 30 | The Tories are likely to have blood all over the walls , cabinet ministers being torn apart by the multitudes and so on . |