Example sentences of "be [adv] likely to use " in BNC.
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| 1 | The four substances they are most likely to use are alcohol , tobacco , marijuana and amphetamines . |
| 2 | Caterers , hoteliers , innkeepers and restaurateurs may have recourse to any one of a number of courts for a multiplicity of reasons ; the following are those which they are most likely to use . |
| 3 | The aid that we are most likely to use for the same reasons as video is the audio tape or cassette recorder . |
| 4 | More ‘ prestigious ’ and less conservative speakers are less likely to use ‘ low ’ realizations , even in short environments . |
| 5 | Using one minus the proportion of the workforce holding unskilled , semi-skilled or clerical jobs as a proxy for the level of skill of the workforce , Table 3.12 suggests that , at least with fixed-term contract workers , employers ' behaviour is as expected — establishments with a highly skilled labour force are less likely to use temporary workers . |
| 6 | In the service sector , however , the relationship is the opposite : establishments with a low proportion of the labour force which is skilled are less likely to use fixed-term contract workers . |
| 7 | Retailers hiring staff to meet summer peaks are less likely to use simple fixed-term contracts . |
| 8 | Allow an ‘ activity space ’ around each piece , which can overlap with the next if you are not likely to use both at the same time . |
| 9 | Erm some women tend to have more pitch variation and they 're more emotional so they 're more likely to use encouraging tones er which can sometimes be seen to be slightly patronizing , whereas boys think it 's soppy to be emotional or expressive way , so that if you 're in school and you 're asking people to read out in class , erm a girl would be more likely to be more expressive , whereas a boy would be a little bit more monotonous , and just sort of read it out and not put any emotion into it . |
| 10 | Erm there is a study where they looked into erm men in the workforce and women and in the workforce and er if men worked together in factories it sort of reinforces their speech patterns , their workmates are reinforcing their speech pattern so they 're more likely to use non- standard . |
| 11 | But as only a small percentage of the US tuna fleet captures dolphins , Boxer argues that her Bill will actually give US tuna processors a competitive advantage in the US market , because foreign fleets are more likely to use methods harmful to dolphins . |
| 12 | Before you have too many sleepless nights , it is worth noting Lord Justice Ackner 's comment that , in practice , employers are more likely to use the sanction of dismissal than a High Court writ . |
| 13 | Future processes are more likely to use gasification . |
| 14 | Whites are often sold in tins and most artists are more likely to use a lot of white . |
| 15 | They are more likely to use ordinary store accounts and bank credit cards . |
| 16 | Whites are often sold in tins and most artists are more likely to use a lot of white . |
| 17 | Secondly , and the reasons for this are unclear , there is good reason to suggest that West Indian workers are more likely to use formal or official job-search channels than are whites or Asians , who use informal channels to a comparatively greater extent . |
| 18 | Educated women have fewer unwanted babies ; they are more likely to use family planning methods . |
| 19 | Teachers in the classroom are more likely to use miscue analysis for individual diagnosis rather than for the detection of broad developmental patterns . |
| 20 | Yet studies show that if parents are open about sex with their children and accept their potential sexuality , their daughters are more likely to use contraception . |
| 21 | Then we go to the taboo language and if you talk about when you go to the toilet , if you Everybody excuses themselves to leave and that 's both men and women and then somehow you have to say where you 're going , so the women are more likely to use the polite sort of euphemistic kinds of things like they 'd say toilet or loo , whereas the men are more likely to say bog . |
| 22 | Oh , younger men are more likely to use coarser tones and be more explicit erm although they would n't use those sort terms to their father or elder men , and the women are more likely to use euphemisms like Spend a penny , Powder your nose and things like that . |
| 23 | Oh , younger men are more likely to use coarser tones and be more explicit erm although they would n't use those sort terms to their father or elder men , and the women are more likely to use euphemisms like Spend a penny , Powder your nose and things like that . |
| 24 | Women tend to use more standard forms er and men are more likely to use regional dialect forms . |
| 25 | Erm women are more likely to use the words such as may , might , possibly , perhaps which seem to be a little less forceful . |
| 26 | Animals communicating in the dark or through water therefore are more likely to use sound or chemical signals ; and terrestrial , diurnal animals make more use of light signals . |
| 27 | Even in these situations , however , first generation Caribbeans are more likely to use a variety close to the local Standard English of their birthplace than the Creole , while the second generation are much more likely to use London English than a form of Creole . |
| 28 | If the speaker 's main intention was to communicate information about temporal order , she would be more likely to use a temporal connective such as before , after or then than to use a causal connective . |
| 29 | Directors who tread the border between realism and fantasy — Hitchcock , Powell , Polanski — are particularly likely to use such effects : for a repressed memory ( Gregory Peck 's false doctor in Spellbound , 1944 ) ; for repressed alcoholism ( David Farrar 's Sammy in The Small Backroom , 1949 ; USA Hour of Glory ) ; for repressed sexuality ( Catherine Deneuve 's mad Belgian girl in Repulsion , 1965 ) . |
| 30 | There was , however , no support for the proposition that establishments with a dominant market position or insensitive to their competitors " pricing behaviour were less likely to use temporary workers . |