Example sentences of "just [adv] likely " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is because their world knowledge tells them that the banks found near rivers are not usually of the financial type ( although it must be stressed that this interpretation is not wrong , it is just less likely ) . |
| 2 | Articles on this sort of theme may appear in art periodicals , but are just as likely to be found in other journals , on literature , say , or history . |
| 3 | Given the sources of deconstructionism in Nietzsche among others , it is just as likely to have a nihilist-reactionary dimension as a progressive one . |
| 4 | Although the uncertainty helped Saatchi shares yesterday , it is just as likely to cause movements in the other direction until the picture becomes clearer . |
| 5 | It is just as likely to have been a Turkish Cypriot farmer moving too far south . |
| 6 | However , they are just as likely to get the Soviet Union , Uruguay and South Korea . |
| 7 | I 'm just as likely to start feeling insecure about someone in his past as someone now . ’ |
| 8 | It is just as likely that the market , left to itself , would not finance or build nuclear-power stations , not because of the greens but because of their poor rate of return . |
| 9 | The third criticism is that the medical basis of the Infanticide Act 1938 is now discredited : the reference to the effect of lactation is without foundation , and it is acknowledged that the social pressures consequent upon the arrival of a new child ( such as financial demands , unsuitable housing , effects on family relationships ) may be just as likely to lead to the mental disturbance manifest in these cases as any condition linked specifically with the event of giving birth . |
| 10 | While most are displayed on benches , you 're just as likely to turn the corner on , say , a group of bathroom plants complete with bath , or shade-lovers in their very own north-facing living room . |
| 11 | Sunderland made no attempt to sit on their lead , however , and looked just as likely as Norwich to score in a second half which comfortably surpassed the first in entertainment value . |
| 12 | It is just as likely that some viruses evolved from more complex organisms — that they are cell fragments which found they could earn a perfectly good living simply by sponging off others . |
| 13 | When they were not fighting each other , the kings and caliphs were just as likely to be seeking each other 's protection or vassalage . |
| 14 | No doubt this is true , but , as we have seen , such confrontations are just as likely now at local as at central level . |
| 15 | But luck does n't win cups and championships — policy does , and if there was luck , it was just as likely to go against Arsenal , as events were to show . |
| 16 | Judy Dunn found that two-year-old second-born children were just as likely as their elders to initiate a quarrel , to tease , and to hit . |
| 17 | But , on the other hand , the informant who sees the interviewer making no record of what is said is just as likely to wonder why notes are not being taken . |
| 18 | Soldiers , after all , were ‘ bad ’ at making wills , but obtained concessions on political grounds ; their civilian compatriots were surely just as likely to slip up but could expect no such special treatment : a trust clause could make all the difference to the success of their dying wishes . |
| 19 | He 's just as likely to be found talking to a six-strong student society in Bangor as addressing 500 top Earth scientists in Washington ; he will have a drink with ( and on ) me just as readily ( or so he makes it appear ) as he will have lunch with ( and no doubt on ) the director of the US National Science Foundation ; if he 's not corresponding with some editor over some esoteric point of science , he 's trying to persuade the high-ups at the European Space Agency to do something adventurous in planetology for a change . |
| 20 | But could the platforms , seen as extensive patterning in aerial surveys of the Maya lowlands just as likely have formed naturally ? |
| 21 | We are just as likely to sack the supplier and look for a nicer one . |
| 22 | A frightened cat with expanded pupils is just as likely to strike out in panic . |
| 23 | But it is just as likely that she will allow one male after another to mount her until her whole circle of admirers has been accommodated . |
| 24 | All these things are just as likely to rid you of a headache as taking a pill . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | It is just as likely to draw back from the hole . |
| 27 | The failure of such experiments to demonstrate any effect of homoeopathic remedies is therefore just as likely to be due to inappropriate remedy selection for the model under study as to the possibility that the remedy really is inactive , or that homoeopathy is just a load of fantasy , wishful thinking and mumbo jumbo . |
| 28 | Today 's country sound is just as likely to embrace the electronic drum machine and organ as the spoons and washboard . |
| 29 | While moderate drinkers were just as likely to become infected with the germs , fewer became ill with the symptoms . |
| 30 | What shows that this was generally an unthinking answer , uninformed by any real understanding of interest rates , is that people were just as likely to give this answer whether they thought it would be a percentage of the amount they borrowed , a percentage per year , or even a percentage per month . |