Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] likely [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Celebrities are much less likely to die from heart attack or stroke , but that is probably only because they die young in other ways . |
| 2 | The result of this dichotomy is that the employer who can rely on the right to protect his business secrets is much more likely to succeed in court than when he seeks to enforce a traditional restraint of trade clause . |
| 3 | Not only are you much more likely to die from lung cancer or heart disease , but other illnesses highlighted in this booklet , including cervical cancer , are associated with smoking . |
| 4 | Not only are you much more likely to die from lung cancer or heart disease , but other illnesses highlighted in this booklet , including cervical cancer , are associated with smoking . |
| 5 | These findings are also in line with figures produced by the Justices ' Clerks ' Society ( 1992 ) which we cited earlier , suggesting that for a given range of offence types , Crown Courts are very much more likely to resort to custody than magistrates courts , and to do so for longer . |
| 6 | The fact that she and Liz had married two brothers was something that was much more likely to happen in fiction than in real life . |
| 7 | However , a person who based his or her sense of worth entirely on achievement would be much more likely to succumb to depression in the event of such employment problems . |
| 8 | Families with children are much more likely to get into debt than people without children , and there is a greater risk to larger families . |
| 9 | On the other hand the slaves were rather more likely to revolt at sea than anyone else , and they were much more likely to commit suicide or die of shock and despair . |
| 10 | Two heating mats would be equally good ( and probably less likely to fail on balance ) . |
| 11 | Words in the first category seem inherently more likely to succeed as part of the vocabulary of youth culture by virtue of their being marked from the start as oppositional to mainstream culture through their Creole pronunciation , and by this route to enter the " multi-racial vernacular " . |
| 12 | It is true that we live in an age when people are increasingly more likely to act on intuition , but many are still able to calculate when two and two add up to five . |
| 13 | They are twice as likely to live in council housing , twice as likely to be supported by someone in class V ( if at all ) than in any other class ( Werner 1984 ) . |
| 14 | Smokers are twice as likely to die from heart disease than non-smokers . |
| 15 | Girls who have been circumcised are twice as likely to die in childbirth . |
| 16 | A child born less than a year after its elder sibling is twice as likely to die in infancy than a child born two to three years after . |
| 17 | A child in a family with five children is twice as likely to die in infancy as a child in a family of three children . |
| 18 | At the lower end of the job market , in the middle management to senior supervisory positions , employers are however more likely to consider with favour candidates with good track records in their own countries seeking to make the transition to working oversees . |
| 19 | It is assumed that the evaluation of particular practices in particular contexts is more relevant to the educational and professional needs of teachers and schools and therefore more likely to result in improvement . |