Example sentences of "more likely that [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | These same factors might also make it more likely that a person will experience the sorts of events to which they will be vulnerable . |
| 3 | Anything that makes it more likely that a child will behave in a particular way . |
| 4 | Each additional child makes it more likely that a couple who are not already local authority tenants will become so . |
| 5 | It is more likely that a kid will die than reach sexual maturity at three years old . |
| 6 | If the mother denigrates her husband , it is more likely that a boy will become particularly anxious ( Wolff , 1983b ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It is more likely that a valuation will not be required before , for instance , a later disposal of the asset by the transferee . |
| 9 | It is more likely that a family will lie somewhere on the continuum between these positions in its behaviour patterns . |
| 10 | It is more likely that a letter to ‘ Anna Payne ’ will get a response than one simply to ‘ the personnel manager ’ . |
| 11 | At the time the experts believed that a previous transfusion sensitised the patient and made it more likely that a transplant would be rejected . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It is much more likely that the periods we call constant saw some small changes and the intervening periods , although generally of more rapid fall , were punctuated by minor stillstands . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It is more likely that the waters of Marah referred to in Exodus 15:23–25 were contaminated with iron rather than algae as Dr S. Fletcher suggest ( Chem . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | A senior US trade official said the decision to ditch the two-day talks made it more likely that the United States would go ahead with sanctions as it had threatened . |
| 21 | It is much more likely that the name commemorates ‘ fair Rosamond ’ , the mistress of Henry II . |
| 22 | It is more likely that the sentence beginning with also is adding more detail to support the general conclusion that the individual concerned is right-sided and is part of the internal structure of a paragraph beginning with Generally . |
| 23 | It is more likely that the elements of secrecy and self-deception involved in my behaviour were already so strong that what I was actually doing could n't be described in words at all , least of all in the incriminating written word . |
| 24 | It is more likely that the accounts in Matthew and Luke are shortened versions of Mark than that Mark has expanded one of theirs . |
| 25 | It seems more likely that the Khmers Rouges decided not to disrupt the election , perhaps for good reason . |
| 26 | It is more likely that the importer will have to settle his debt in the exporter 's currency or the currency of a third country , e.g. Brazil/Singapore trade deal billed and settled in US dollars . |
| 27 | in the consecutive mode it was much more likely that the message would be interpreted into an English form which followed all the grammatical rules , while in simultaneous translation there was a clear tendency to follow BSL structure while speaking the words . |
| 28 | If McAlpine initiates the action it is marginally more likely that the Consortium could win costs against the company if McAlpine lost . |
| 29 | It is much more likely that the majority of assessments are currently undertaken either informally or indirectly . |
| 30 | It is more likely that the Secretary of State for the Environment is preparing us for what used to be called ribbon development and pock-marked urban sprawl stretching from Stratford to Southend , with unfettered market forces destroying the flora and fauna and every living thing that gets in its way . |