Example sentences of "far more likely [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , any protest she made was far more likely to lose her friends then gain me any . |
| 2 | Psychiatric research has found that children who are deprived of physical demonstrations of love are far more likely to manifest behaviour problems and to grow into emotionally unbalanced adults , unable themselves to give or receive any kind of love or warmth . |
| 3 | You are far more likely to use a method regularly and properly if you feel it is the right one for you . |
| 4 | They are far more likely to use their discretion when dealing with the middle-class offender , thus the middle-class offender is far less likely to actually come to court . |
| 5 | The boys obviously like you so perhaps you could show your wife that a relationship with them based on mutual love and respect is far more likely to give better results . |
| 6 | The skilled negotiator is far more likely to say things that reveal what he or she is thinking , intending and feeling than the less skilled , who reckon that to expose such things is naïve . |
| 7 | Where the Children 's Bureau had now advanced from restraint to diversion as a treatment for masturbation , Isaacs was giving a brief account of Oedipal conflict and advising parents that they were ‘ far more likely to do harm by rushing in to scold or correct than by leaving the child to deal with it himself — in a general atmosphere of calm goodwill ’ , and was citing Dr Ernest Jones in her support . |
| 8 | The patient is then far more likely to respond favourably to the proposal than if the reasons for it are left vague . |
| 9 | In general , it seems that those with atopic symptoms — hay-fever , perennial rhinitis , asthma or urticaria — are far more likely to respond to dietary treatment . |
| 10 | Currently those women who do take science A levels and who go into higher education are far more likely to choose to study medical or biological subjects than physical sciences or engineering . |
| 11 | Yet the survey also found the same drivers were far more likely to drive badly and to flout the law . |
| 12 | The result of both explicit and covert discrimination was that boys were far more likely to succeed at public examinations and to enter higher and further education ( Wilkin , 1982 ) . |
| 13 | The logic of this benchmark would suggest that the employee inventor in a small business is far more likely to succeed in satisfying the quality threshold for benefit to the employer . |
| 14 | On rare occasions an experienced tiger will kill a wild buffalo or gaur , the Asian wild ox , weighing up to a ton ( 1 tonne ) , but it is far more likely to tackle the young of the larger and powerful species , including elephants and rhinos . |
| 15 | They are far more likely to exceed the quota , and having been brought up they must now forfeit their new-found surplus and be brought down . |
| 16 | Instead it is far more likely to resemble organizations that neither the practicing manager nor the management scholar pays much attention to today : the hospital , the university , the symphony orchestra . |
| 17 | Parents may be motivated by the fact that a child whose father or mother smokes is far more likely to smoke too . |
| 18 | Angels — or ‘ angelicals ’ as he would have preferred to call them in his strange idiolect — were as real to him as omnibuses or mortgage repayments — and far more likely to obtrude into his consciousness . |
| 19 | Problems were now far more likely to arise in determining the rights of succession among competing members of a princely family . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | The individual who is calm and self-assured is far more likely to perform well in his chosen area of life , even though he may not necessarily be the one with the highest level of ability . |
| 22 | She is far more likely to obey the rules if you discuss them with her , so that she knows why you make them . |
| 23 | It would seem that we are far more likely to obey unquestioningly when the authority figure is actually present . |
| 24 | If they could , then waxing or epilation ( dragging the hairs out ) would be far more likely to cause stronger growth . |
| 25 | This means our mailings to advisers are far more likely to reach the person they are intended for . |
| 26 | Less skilled negotiators are far more likely to match a proposal with a counter proposal . |
| 27 | It could be argued that this is far more likely to occur to a self-regulatory body than to a statutory body . |
| 28 | TEENAGE girls are far more likely to end up as gymslip mums now than a decade ago , according to a Government report . |
| 29 | Yet the schools they attend are , on the whole , not as good in terms of status , teacher input and , sometimes , physical surroundings ; they make less use of the educational system beyond the compulsory school stage ; they are less likely to pass government examinations and go on to university ; and they are far more likely to end up in manual occupations , just like their fathers and mothers . |
| 30 | These data clearly indicate that ‘ suggesting ’ , the more involving way of idea-having , is far more likely to win support . |