Example sentences of "[adv] likely [verb] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , and with the exception of medical services where , as the LFS also shows , use is made of agency nurses and doctors , public sector establishments of any kind are very much less likely to make use of agency workers . |
| 2 | Larger libraries were more likely to mention expansion of management training , and even more likely than small libraries to want greater flexibility with staff . |
| 3 | None of these four biases are likely to be consistent either across the two sexes or across different species : all four are more likely to affect estimates of variation in male success than estimates of variation in female success in polygynous species , though in contrary directions . |
| 4 | The children of mums who smoked during pregnancy were far more likely to show signs of hyperactivity , suggesting that fetal exposure to tobacco can be linked to later developmental problems . |
| 5 | However , they are more expensive , require more complicated care procedure and are more likely to show signs of wear . |
| 6 | There is a significant tendency for staff in more senior positions ( who tend also to have more years of service ) to recall the review better , to believe the introduction of the review to have been more adequate , to be more involved in the review activities , more likely to keep a special diary as part of the review and more likely to make use of information routinely available for the review . |
| 7 | With respect to symptoms they were much more likely to have urgency of defecation , 44% having this symptom . |
| 8 | With respect to symptoms they were again much more likely to have urgency of defecation ( 44% v 13% , p<0.001 ) . |
| 9 | With all the rain emptying itself over the Feyenoord Stadium it was hard to put last night 's match in the context of a World Cup which is more likely to present problems of heat than waterproofing . |
| 10 | While past generations of architects built cathedrals of faith , later succeeded by cathedrals of commerce , today 's and tomorrow 's master builders are more likely to provide cathedrals of entertainment . |
| 11 | Teachers of art are more likely to write books of instruction , and in their efforts to educate their students may make comments about the traditions they admire and from which they hope their students will learn . |
| 12 | Since the strategy which a subject adopts towards an experimental task is under his own control , unless otherwise constrained , any visual field asymmetry found in a particular experiment is as likely to reflect aspects of information processing as any intrinsic difference between the hemispheres for the task in question ( e.g. Ross and Turkewitz , 1981 ) . |