Example sentences of "is less likely [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the area visible to the cell is reduced to its classically defined receptive field the cell is less likely to respond to coloured objects . |
| 2 | Blood is less likely to clot , the heart can pump more blood ( and therefore oxygen ) around the body with less effort . |
| 3 | With the law as it is there may be some men who would prefer an adult partner , but who at present turn their attention to boys because they consider that this course is less likely to lay them open to prosecution or to blackmail than if they sought other adults as their partners . |
| 4 | A child who has always looked after his own asthma is less likely to rebel later and discard inhalers or start smoking . |
| 5 | Possible explanations for a difference between older and younger women are that the operation has a delayed effect , that the operative technique has changed over the years so that it is less likely to affect bowel function , or that gynaecologists are doing fewer operations on women with pelvic pain of intestinal origin . |
| 6 | The overweight person , on the other hand , is usually not so mindful of internal sensations as a cue for eating or abstaining , and is less likely to take exercise as an antidote to excess indulgence . |
| 7 | The skills of miners … are not easily transferable to other industries ; protest is less likely to take the form of moving to another industry . |
| 8 | One is that a predator is less likely to detect fish prey if they form a school than if they spread out . |
| 9 | The speaker is less likely to gulp for more air in mid-sentence . |
| 10 | However , an attractively designed computer is less likely to fall within the scope of registered designs because a person buying a computer is more interested in the performance of the computer ; its appearance is not important to a material extent , although it must be acknowledged that the Design Registry and the courts took a fairly liberal attitude prior to the changes to the 1949 Act and are likely to continue to be generous in this respect . |
| 11 | Both the increased cost and the loss in predictive validity will most hurt the poor and disadvantaged , who will be paying more for a test that is less likely to spot unfulfilled native abilities . |
| 12 | It could be argued that ‘ skunk works ’ might be useful in Quadrant 2 , but a special interest session of the Industrial Research Institute 1986 Fall Meeting concluded that such an approach is less likely to succeed when , for example , the project requires too advanced a technology and/or the transition to manufacturing is complex and requires very large scale-up . |
| 13 | The cover has to be disturbed and scratched open by frequent hoeing ; a claw hoe is ideal for this , as it is less likely to snag and damage the root stems . |
| 14 | However , if your child does something , and as a result of his action something unpleasant happens to him , he is less likely to do it in the future ( the undesired behaviour may be reduced or eliminated ) . |
| 15 | On a less arrogant interpretation , he seems to be making the reasonable point that the appreciative stance is less likely to overlook both positive and negative aspects of deviance simply because it is more open to the acceptance of both possibilities . |
| 16 | Intending to get up early and do two hours work before breakfast is less likely to happen than planning to do it . |
| 17 | As objectives are translations of intentions into statements of final competence , this confusion is less likely to happen . |
| 18 | This is less likely to happen when we are older — not only have the hormones settled down , but we have moved beyond youthful ambitions and have time to cultivate a relationship , and actively seek love and companionship as a number one priority . |
| 19 | My reply to that is that the quiet passage of a canoe going with the current is less likely to disturb the otter than a walker tramping along the bank of the river . |
| 20 | The spread of readily available and simple means of contraception has meant that the wife is less likely to spend much of her life in the bearing and rearing of children and is more likely to seek employment outside the home , thereby developing a source of income and interests outside her traditionally defined role : ‘ … in Britain the proportion of all wives in paid work went up from 10 per cent in 1911 ( as it remained in 1931 ) to 26 per cent in 1951 and 42 per cent in 1971 ’ ( Young and Willmott , 1975 , p. 101 ) . |
| 21 | This method of bandaging provides a firm grip that is less likely to slide of and fall in festoons during the ensuing bout . |
| 22 | And it is less likely to slide on tight bends . |
| 23 | they are less solidaristic , that is less likely to organize , than men ; |
| 24 | The future of Beatrice four , and Eugenie , two , is less likely to hinge on their mother 's behaviour . |
| 25 | Use hardwood if possible because it is less likely to deflect under load , but a softwood bar is usually adequate when dealing with short lengths . |
| 26 | Because the drug is less likely to depress the respiratory system than other pain-killers , it has been marketed as particularly useful for young children and the aged . |
| 27 | But they are keen on the average private investor because he does not expect to have lunch once a quarter and is less likely to sell out during a takeover bid . |
| 28 | They have fewer opportunities than men to be nourished by their work , since they are more often involved in dull and repetitive jobs ; secondly , the domestic and nurturing skills in which they have usually been trained are held in lower esteem both in the home and in the workplace than administrative or management skills , so what they do is less likely to receive praise ; lastly , they are conditioned to value praise from men more highly than praise from women , who are more often their colleagues or first-level bosses . |
| 29 | This is because a ‘ friendly ’ government is less likely to suppress violent conduct by its voters . |
| 30 | As a result , an allowable capital loss is less likely to arise . |