Example sentences of "far [adv] likely [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Benzodiazepines , of course , are prescription only drugs , and an overdose is far less likely to cause death . |
| 2 | Such a circumstance is far less likely to arise if defective slating is replaced either with a new natural slate roof or a surface of one of the several types of lightweight synthetic slate that are now obtainable . |
| 3 | As the drama develops remember that if each child feels s/he has a clear responsibility within the drama control problems are far less likely to arise . |
| 4 | In fact , teenagers in the UK are less likely to become pregnant and less likely to become mothers than they were 15 years ago and far less likely to do so than teenagers in the United States . |
| 5 | The system is further complicated by the fact that on many issues a Flemish socialist is far less likely to agree with a French-speaking fellow-socialist than with a conservative fellow-Fleming . |
| 6 | Recent figures show offenders who 've been through the Grendon process ; many of them for murder , manslaughter , or serious sexual assaults are far less likely to re-offend . |
| 7 | Families that spend a substantial proportion of time flying and/or feed aerially ( flight importance categories 3 and 4 ) are far less likely to exhibit graduated tails than are more terrestrial families ( categories 1 and 2 ; Fig. 2b ) . |
| 8 | Such symptoms are far less likely to trouble you if you gradually reduce your intake until you are able to go without the substances altogether . |
| 9 | This does not make it impossible for a domestic market to be dominated and then abused , but it is far less likely to happen . |
| 10 | Plotting , planning and trouble-making are far less likely to take place under such a regime . |
| 11 | Your heart will be healthier and you will be far less likely to have a heart attack or stroke when you get older than someone who has exercised very little during their life . |
| 12 | ( 1973 ) also found , in a rural parish in Oxfordshire , that pensioners and women were far less likely to have driving licences . |
| 13 | In addition , the lower-income households are far less likely to have a telephone — and at the same time are less likely to have a car . |
| 14 | Those Asians and West Indians who are more dispersed among the white population are far less likely to suffer every kind of disadvantage than those living in the areas of local concentration . |
| 15 | If you strengthen the muscles in your back you will be far less likely to damage your back or suffer from chronic back pain . |
| 16 | By sticking to the same route , your dog will become familiar with its surroundings , and will be far less likely to end up lost even if it strays away from you . |
| 17 | In addition , it would make us far less likely to eat for the wrong reasons . |
| 18 | Sons are far less likely to follow their fathers or other male relatives into the same occupations or places of work . |
| 19 | Sons are far less likely to follow their fathers or other male relatives into the same occupations or places of work . |
| 20 | If overheating occurs ferrets are far less likely to grow their winter coat so readily . |
| 21 | But research released , along with his report , show those who do , will be far less likely to offend again , than people living other prisons , despite taking the country 's most violent criminals . |
| 22 | Traditional dry cure bacon is far less likely to produce this substance — do n't miss our feature on dry cure bacon on page 77 . |
| 23 | Organizations are arenas within which some things will tend to hang together and be adopted by power-players as a bundle , while other forms of combination may be far less likely to occur as a coherent package , perhaps because they are less coherent or because the alliance which could make them so lacks a position in the field of power to be able to constitute the necessity of its choices . |
| 24 | As a result , the predator is far less likely to attack a second individual of this type of prey . |
| 25 | The person who is feeling stable , confident and optimistic is far less likely to mind being alone than someone who is still reeling from a major bereavement or break-up . |
| 26 | However , any protest she made was far more likely to lose her friends then gain me any . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | You are far more likely to use a method regularly and properly if you feel it is the right one for you . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |