Example sentences of "likely [verb] [adv] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | likely to increase rather than reduce the rate of inflation . |
| 2 | Market forms of supply are likely to increase rather than reduce the maldistribution of wealth . |
| 3 | Children soon take advantage of this inconsistency and the ensuing reward not only negates any potential influence of the punishment ( misbehaviour is likely to increase rather than decrease ) but debases the currency of the parent 's words and deeds . |
| 4 | BOARDS : There are a number of different boards you 're likely to come across while foraging around inside a PC . |
| 5 | Workers who have adapted to tedious and undemanding jobs and therefore have no desire to enhance their skills and knowledge are , it is suggested , likely to resist rather than welcome jobs with the suggested core characteristics . |
| 6 | Therefore , the sort of person attracted to work in the bureaucracy on the implementation of such programmes was likely to be sympathetic to them and their commitment to the programmes was likely to grow rather than diminish with time . |
| 7 | In the General Staff 's view , instabilities in Britain 's overseas territories were likely to grow rather than decline as Sandys hoped . |
| 8 | This somewhat idiosyncratic interpretation is no doubt coloured by the specificities of French history , yet there is little doubt that the British police system is also a political construction of the nineteenth century , created to contain the potential in the newly urbanized working classes for mob disorder , which the excesses of the military had seemed likely to exacerbate rather than disperse . |
| 9 | The tangled web of committees seemed to him likely to retard rather than accelerate development , and he hoped that clearer BEA responsibility would , as their headquarters staff were built up , lead to quicker progress . |
| 10 | Repeated applications add to the costs but , unlike broad-spectrum insecticides , pheromones are more likely to complement rather than interfere with the biological control of the pests . |
| 11 | Irving has demonstrated the tendency of investigators to employ interrogation techniqes likely to accentuate rather than ameliorate these and other distorting factors . |