Example sentences of "as likely [to-vb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are twice as likely to live in council housing , twice as likely to be supported by someone in class V ( if at all ) than in any other class ( Werner 1984 ) . |
| 2 | But luck does n't win cups and championships — policy does , and if there was luck , it was just as likely to go against Arsenal , as events were to show . |
| 3 | Smokers are twice as likely to die from heart disease than non-smokers . |
| 4 | Girls who have been circumcised are twice as likely to die in childbirth . |
| 5 | A child born less than a year after its elder sibling is twice as likely to die in infancy than a child born two to three years after . |
| 6 | A child in a family with five children is twice as likely to die in infancy as a child in a family of three children . |
| 7 | A hyperaesthetic overwhelming pain state can occur in patients with chronic pain and is just as likely to occur in patients receiving buprenorphine , when the morphine metabolic pathways are irrelevant . |
| 8 | The pan-European influence comes through strongly in an office where French and British accents jostle with Italian ; where ‘ bonjour ’ and ‘ good morning ’ alternate with ‘ buongiorno ’ ; and where the next phone call is just as likely to come from Bradford , Paris or Barcelona as from Genoa . |
| 9 | In many industries , a strike in 1984 is almost as likely to result in fatalities , injuries , or destruction of property as it would have been in 1934 or even 1904 . |