Example sentences of "more likely [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be possible to resolve the pronoun here by reasoning that a dog biting a vet is much more likely than a vet biting a dog ( or , indeed , of either of them biting himself ) . |
| 2 | ( At the extremes , a child of professional parents was about 20 times more likely than a child of semi-skilled and unskilled workers to enter full-time higher education . ) |
| 3 | There is no sharp division of duties between senior lecturer and lecturer , but a senior lecturer is , in general , more likely than a lecturer to hold such posts as dean or head of department , or to chair university committees . |
| 4 | Lack of care is often repeated : ex-care women in their study were considerably more likely than a comparison group to suffer a breakdown in their own role as parents , resulting in one in five of their children also being admitted into institutional care . |
| 5 | Both mothers and fathers of children admitted into care were more likely than a comparison group to have a psychiatric disorder . |
| 6 | Thus , for example , when asked whether or not they would describe their own redundancy as genuinely voluntary , the oldest group ( those over 65 when interviewed ) were much more likely than the rest to say ‘ yes ’ ( 83 per cent compared with 46 per cent of those aged 55–59 and 65 per cent of those aged 60–64 ) . |
| 7 | Students of communications , instrumentation , special applications and ( marginally ) computing were more likely than the rest to be seeking work . |
| 8 | ‘ What job is it you have here that makes you so much more likely than the rest of your family to attain a Mercedes ? ’ |
| 9 | SERC funded students in both specialist and conversion courses were more likely than the average to be continuing their studies . |
| 10 | According to the information collected to date , students in the two largest subject areas , computing and micro-electronics , were more likely than the average to be in employment . |
| 11 | A doctor of medicine is in the same social class as a company director but is more likely than the director to be accorded some degree of deference by the local community . |
| 12 | People with disabilities are more likely than the non-disabled to experience poverty , have lower incomes and fewer assets . |
| 13 | Only in a few cases is it unclear whether a crater is volcanic or from an impact , and in comparably few cases does it seem more likely that a crater is of volcanic origin . |
| 14 | These same factors might also make it more likely that a person will experience the sorts of events to which they will be vulnerable . |
| 15 | Anything that makes it more likely that a child will behave in a particular way . |
| 16 | Each additional child makes it more likely that a couple who are not already local authority tenants will become so . |
| 17 | It is more likely that a kid will die than reach sexual maturity at three years old . |
| 18 | If the mother denigrates her husband , it is more likely that a boy will become particularly anxious ( Wolff , 1983b ) . |
| 19 | China would not wish Russian interest in Korea to be increased but it was more likely that a regime headed by Kim Il Sung would move along lines independent of Moscow . |
| 20 | It is more likely that a valuation will not be required before , for instance , a later disposal of the asset by the transferee . |
| 21 | It is more likely that a family will lie somewhere on the continuum between these positions in its behaviour patterns . |
| 22 | It is more likely that a letter to ‘ Anna Payne ’ will get a response than one simply to ‘ the personnel manager ’ . |
| 23 | At the time the experts believed that a previous transfusion sensitised the patient and made it more likely that a transplant would be rejected . |
| 24 | A willingness to accept greater liability under a contract in return for payment of a higher price may make it more likely that an exclusion or limitation of liability will satisfy the test of reasonableness ( Woodman v Photo Trade Processing Ltd ( 1981 ) , unreported ; see Lawson , Exclusion Clauses p174 ) ; however , the fact that the client has a second set of terms of business , containing less restrictive terms , may be taken as recognition that the more stringent terms are unreasonable . |
| 25 | It has been suggested that now that unions ( and not merely officials ) may in certain circumstances be liable in damages for unlawful industrial action it is more likely that an employer will pursue his claim to a full trial and there is less reason to refuse an interlocutory injunction in trade dispute cases ; but it has also been said that the ‘ right to strike ’ is a valuable ( indeed essential ) element in the system of collective bargaining and that it ‘ should not be rendered less valuable than Parliament intended by too fanciful or ingenious a view of what might develop into a serious issue to be tried . ’ |
| 26 | Historians have found some manors where the local custom was for the widow to receive a half proportion , or even the whole , and yet in others apparently none — although in these cases it is more likely that the documentation is being misconstrued . |
| 27 | Perhaps the spiral designs originated in the ‘ Bandkeramik ’ of the Danube basin and arrived in Crete by way of the Cyclades , where stone pyxides were made with spiral ornaments ; but Stylianos Alexiou thinks it more likely that the spiral came from the Middle East , where it was used in gold wire jewellery from an early date . |
| 28 | Was , was there more fear , wa wa was it more likely that the press would fear repercussions on them in some way , if they were to break confidences . |
| 29 | The more features that 're fired , the more likely it is that you 'll get an out or the higher the activity level of the cognitive demon and then the more likely that the decision demon will decide that that 's the appropriate character . |
| 30 | It is much more likely that the name commemorates ‘ fair Rosamond ’ , the mistress of Henry II . |