Example sentences of "more likely [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also seems that applications to the tribunal selected for a pre-hearing assessment are more likely to proceed to a hearing than other cases , while at the same time the success rate for those who proceed in the face of an ‘ unlikely to succeed ’ warning is not very different from other cases ( DoE , 1988 ) . |
| 2 | Patients 75 years of age and older were more likely to die over the 2 years after discharge than patients between 18 and 44 years of age , but this difference did not reach statistical significance . |
| 3 | There are invariably more mature female goats around than males , and the inference is that the males , as a result of their arduous rut , are more likely to die during the winter . |
| 4 | However , compared with patients aged 18–44 years , patients aged 45–64 ( RR=0.84 ) , 65–74 ( RR=1.28 ) , and 75–92 ( RR=1.99 ) were not significantly more likely to die during the 24 months after discharge ( all p0.2 ) . |
| 5 | Smokers are very much more likely to die from a ruptured aneurysm of the abdominal aorta than nonsmokers [ 7 ] . |
| 6 | The study suggests that women under 50 with breast cancer are more likely to die from the disease if it is first picked up by mammograms than if they discover the lump by feeling their breasts . |
| 7 | He 's more likely to die in a bar brawl . |
| 8 | But the RYA was always more likely to plump for a more conventional design and building set-up , and four boats at Rutland Water looked to be in the frame . |
| 9 | He said that many people who could do so would be more likely to shop on the continent . |
| 10 | He said that many people who could do so would be more likely to shop on the continent . |
| 11 | Yet another way in which not having a bank account makes people more likely to fall into the non-chooser group , the automatic users of one or other type of credit , is that people without bank accounts are likely to be paid weekly , in cash . |
| 12 | But it was only one of those sleeps into which he was ever more likely to fall during the day and she knew he would waken , roaring , in an hour or so . |
| 13 | ( Care must be taken in interpreting these probit equations : note that positive because the higher the price the more likely it is that all will be sold ; is positive because as the horizon approaches one gets less fussy , and so one is more likely to sell at a lower price ; the other signs follow from similar arguments . ) |
| 14 | Showmen knew that middle-class critics had to be bought off and that topicality could sell films to certain audiences but they also appreciated that audiences were more likely to go to the movies for spectacle , for adventure , for comedy , for sex , to see particular stars , and to be entertained in the widest sense . |
| 15 | Art criticism seems more likely to remain in the shadows , out of the spotlight of academic controversy . |
| 16 | There has been some suggestion that parents are more likely to argue in front of their sons than their daughters ; that a disturbed parent is more likely to pick on a son than a daughter ; and that mothers may transfer negative experiences with their husband into negative expectations of their sons . |
| 17 | Western scientists argue that the plutonium is more likely to sink to the bottom and stay there . |
| 18 | Experiments have shown that males which perform the zigzag display at a higher rate ( more swims back and forth per minute ) are more likely to be successful at courtship : a female is more likely to mate with a male whose zigzagging is more energetic . |
| 19 | Voters who live in class-specific communities are more likely to vote for the relevant class-specific party than are those not living in such communities . |
| 20 | But they 're more likely to bump into the Great Dragon of the North Sea , or Half Tan the Black , alias John Cleese . |
| 21 | Armed with this perspective , library staff may perhaps be more likely to respond to the specious logic of their political masters , eager to turn an honest penny as long as it will cause controversy and save money from the Westminster rate-cappers . |
| 22 | Another problem with this view of reality is that it is more likely to respond to the respectable face of feminism than to women 's liberation . |
| 23 | In summary , therefore , different solutions are more likely to arise between the NPV and IRR methods when one or more of the following conditions exist : |
| 24 | This problem is more likely to arise at a time when the patient is unconscious and can not be consulted . |
| 25 | Problems are more likely to arise from an increase in the number of small enquiries which generate only a modest income but which impinge on the time of core staff . |
| 26 | A psychology that ignores it is more likely to turn into a dogmatic police force of a discourse . |
| 27 | I venture to suggest you are more likely to turn to the books of both authors after reading their contributions in Esquire . |
| 28 | Asians ‘ kept their heads down ’ , a strategy supposedly more likely to succeed in a ‘ hostile ’ ( read : ‘ racist ’ ) environment — a view perhaps based on a selective construction of Jewish history in Britain ? — in contrast to the ‘ West Indian ’ tendency to engage in protest ( against racism ) . |
| 29 | On the facts of the problem he is more likely to succeed in the action for breach of statutory duty as that duty on the employer is stricter . |
| 30 | Firstly , it does seem that consumers are more likely to succeed in an assertion that a clause is unreasonable than a commercial undertaking . |