Example sentences of "as likely [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Generic playfulness in television is as likely to fall within the characteristically modernist desire for a modernization of expression as it is to constitute a postmodern avant garde , and the two should not be confused . |
| 2 | In fact they would be just as likely to turn to the agony aunt pages of a magazine . |
| 3 | But what we learn from interviews , now that Couples is enjoying a run of success that some see as likely to culminate in the Masters title , tells another tale entirely . |
| 4 | A fifteen-year-old girl having her first baby is twice as likely to live at the poverty level than a nineteen-year-old first-time mother . |
| 5 | The third criticism is that the medical basis of the Infanticide Act 1938 is now discredited : the reference to the effect of lactation is without foundation , and it is acknowledged that the social pressures consequent upon the arrival of a new child ( such as financial demands , unsuitable housing , effects on family relationships ) may be just as likely to lead to the mental disturbance manifest in these cases as any condition linked specifically with the event of giving birth . |
| 6 | Of course while this point may work in the tenant 's favour in a falling market , it is just as likely to work in the landlord 's favour in a rising market . |
| 7 | It is real all the same , if only because close finishes , in which the result is determined by a marginal number of votes , are just as likely to occur under the STV as under any other electoral system . |
| 8 | Again , it is limited but it shows that an audit failure is three times as likely to occur in the first two years after a change in auditor as in subsequent years . |