Example sentences of "more likely [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British Museum ( Natural History ) Catalogue of Meteorites , third edition ( 1966 ) mentions a piece in Nature ( vol 140 , p 113 ) by E. Stenz , who thought that 3000 was more likely for the Pultusk meteorite shower . |
| 2 | Communication becomes difficult in a big team , and slack rope is more likely between the climbers , creating potential for the last member of a large team to fall and pull off those above . |
| 3 | It is disputed whether these onion domes were a development indigenous to the area or whether the idea came from further east , but the former seems more likely on the weight of evidence ; they were being built by the mid-twelfth century here and were designed in a great variety of shapes and in large numbers . . |
| 4 | He might have been a minor orator , not quite in the senate , nor yet on the stage , more likely at the Bar of some prosperous provincial town ; in fact he had made his early and relatively modest pile in some wholesale business . |
| 5 | There is dispute as to whether cutting is more likely at the time of menstruation ( Simpson 1976 ) . |
| 6 | Men with anal cancer were significantly more likely throughout the study period to be unmarried than were patients with cancer of the colon ( adjusted odds ratio 2.7 ; 95% confidence interval 2.0 to 3.6 ) and stomach ( 2.1 ; 1.5 to 2.8 ) , but no association with marital status was found among women . |
| 7 | The persistence of this dilemma is made more likely by the tendency of the Japanese to view themselves as unique and separate . |
| 8 | The starting point can be either a known position such as a radio beacon over which the aircraft has flown or , which is more likely in the case of an accident , the crash position . |
| 9 | Although the requirement for a double diary entry may have increased errors , our data showed that patients are more likely to make retrospective entries in the evening and are more likely to miss data in the evening than in the morning , but errors in data entry ( inferred from discrepancies between the two forms of entry ) are no more likely in the evening than the morning . |