Example sentences of "more likely [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Painted steel is likely to be less durable than the other kinds , but it is equally important to choose strong frames that are not likely to buckle : ( aluminium may be more likely than steel to bend under strain ) . |
| 2 | The commentaries would not be designed for the general reader but for the specialist , who , looking up Zapp , would find that the book , article or thesis he had been planning had already been anticipated and , more likely than not , invalidated . |
| 3 | For instance , nothing is more likely than that Prothero , when he said that association with Blast ‘ stamped a man too disadvantageously ’ , had in mind among other things Ford 's connection with the magazine and the scandal of Ford 's relations with Violet Hunt — a scandal that had already made a breach between Violet Hunt and the cruelly timorous Henry James , as told painfully in I Have This to Say . |
| 4 | Economists worry that even higher rates would make a prolonged recession much more likely than at present . |
| 5 | Sun/Star readers were more likely than others to have no preference at all in 1986 ( despite voting in 1987 ) , and at the same time , those Sun/Star readers who did have a preference in 1986 were more likely than others to change it during the next year ( Table 8.16 ) . |
| 6 | Sun/Star readers were more likely than others to have no preference at all in 1986 ( despite voting in 1987 ) , and at the same time , those Sun/Star readers who did have a preference in 1986 were more likely than others to change it during the next year ( Table 8.16 ) . |
| 7 | Right-wing readers of a right-wing paper were more likely than left-wing readers of that same paper to claim that their paper was biased towards the right — though a majority of both left- and right-wing readers typically agreed that their papers were biased and agreed on the direction of that bias . |
| 8 | The harmony between Europe 's big six — VW , Fiat , PSA , Renault , GM and Ford — looks more likely than ever to persuade the commission to go for a transitional period longer than three to five years . |
| 9 | At least two-thirds of Americans have never had any reason to think of the British as their Anglo-Saxon cousins ; the East European émigrés who ran the studios were no more likely than their successors to look upon British producers as partners , and nobody would queue to see a film just because it was British . |
| 10 | And while ( at least in my personal experience ) men are more likely than women to stop buying such adornments when times are tough , gravy and similar substances will keep going astray , creating a steady replacement market . |
| 11 | WOMEN are three times more likely than men to contract HIV through sex with an infected partner , a study claimed yesterday . |
| 12 | All the relevant facts were before the two magistrates who were weighing them up to decide whether it was more likely than not that there was prejudice and unfairness that led to an abuse of the process . |
| 13 | Y OU will , more likely than not , find your entry barred and spy a sign flashing SEEK ASSISTANCE . |
| 14 | The view is widespread : a recent poll by the National Opinion Research Centre showed that 78% of whites think blacks are more likely than whites to ‘ prefer to live off welfare ’ . |
| 15 | The reasoning behind this proposal seems to be that the two parties are adult , and any exploitation deriving from the family tie seems no more likely than in other adult relationships . |
| 16 | More likely than not , she was n't thinking at all . |
| 17 | Their second defeat in four days by a London club means that a quick return to the present Second Division is more likely than ever for the First Division 's bottom team . |
| 18 | However , as the chart indicates , Tory supporters are considerably more likely than Labour supporters to favour a second election , and Liberal Democrats — by a margin of three to one — favour some kind of arrangement . |
| 19 | Lawyers do not believe that women jurors are necessarily more likely than men to believe the evidence of alleged rape victims . |
| 20 | I had to sleep with it closed because if I left it open the cat would jump in and more likely than not land from ten feet on to my face — a nasty way to wake up . |
| 21 | Front-line paraprofessionals are more likely than their professional colleagues to share ethnic , cultural , class , religious , language , and other characteristics with the clients and communities they serve . |
| 22 | At 1988/89 rates ( Home Office , 1990b , p. 110 ) , it cost on average £288 per week to keep an offender in custody , compared with £19 per week to supervise an offender on probation ; yet the Home Office acknowledge : ‘ It is hard to show any effect that one type of sentence is more likely than any other to reduce the likelihood of reoffending , which is high for all ’ ( p. 7 ) . |
| 23 | In different circumstances , some forms are more likely to persist than others ; in a stream , for example , some shapes are more likely than others to escape being washed away . |
| 24 | An authority is justified , according to the normal justification thesis , if it is more likely than its subjects to act correctly for the right reasons . |
| 25 | Married women are more likely than lone mothers to be in paid employment . |
| 26 | One parent families are more likely than other families with children to live in poor physical conditions ; to have fewer amenities ; to be overcrowded and to live in unpopular areas , especially the inner cities . |
| 27 | widowed mothers and lone fathers are more likely than other lone parents either to own outright or still be buying their homes . |
| 28 | Lone parent families are more likely than two parent families to depend on social security benefits , and are less likely to have earnings from employment as their main source of income . |
| 29 | Families with two or more children are more likely than those with one child or people without children to make use of credit . |
| 30 | Yet the modern road sweeper , more likely than not , is the skilled driver/operator of a highly sophisticated and expensive machine . |