Example sentences of "likely [to-vb] when [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The extent to which , in informal care , it is acceptable for men to care for women in relation to more intimate tasks is variable and seems that gender taboos are less likely to apply when a man is caring for his wife , than , say , a son for his mother . |
| 2 | Greater latitude can be permitted to disparagement of politicians and self-promoting celebrities : the sting is less likely to pierce when the hide is thick . |
| 3 | A corollary of this last point is that the technique is likely to succeed when the signal is switched on at some moment to which the time origin may be ascribed , the inference being that the signal is zero up to time . |
| 4 | In short , enhancing pupil achievement is seen to spring from a more coherent approach to curriculum , assessment and teaching method , seen as an integral whole , and that this is most likely to arise when a school has developed more sophisticated self-monitoring that leads to holistic forward planning , of which INSET is an inherent feature . |
| 5 | The formation of unpaired terraces is also likely to happen when a stream proceeds to excavate a mass of glacial material choking its preglacial valley . |
| 6 | By this time , New Scientist had organised its own survey of what was likely to happen when the task force reached its objective . |
| 7 | The Ebrahimi type of doctrine is most likely to occur when a partnership is converted into a company but the same people are involved as before and carry on the business with much the same attitude . |
| 8 | Relapse in the absence of a precipitating event is most likely to occur when the patient is living in a situation characterised by high expressed emotion between himself and a relative with whom he has a high degree of contact . |
| 9 | It is most likely to occur when the bird of prey is behaving in an odd way . |
| 10 | However much we may criticize the details of the explanation they offer ( above , pp. 86–9 ) , the clear fact that latent inhibition shows context-specificity ( i.e. is most likely to occur when the context predicts the occurrence of the target stimulus ) constitutes good support for theories that emphasize the role of stimulus predictability . |