Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] likely " in BNC.
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| 1 | Timber which has been properly kiln-seasoned ( which needs expensive kilns and close supervision ) is in no way worse than ‘ naturally ’ seasoned timber and indeed is rather less likely to have picked up the infections of rot during the seasoning process . |
| 2 | With agency workers the situation is reversed : manufacturing establishments are rather more likely than average and service establishments rather less likely than average to use them . |
| 3 | In line with what we had expected was the finding that establishments where the level of output , the amount of overtime being worked and the number of persons employed was falling were rather less likely to be using fixed-term contract workers . |
| 4 | Students who had studied IT at a polytechnic were rather less likely to be In employment or to be continuing their studies than their university peers , and more likely to be looking for employment ( Table 4.2 ) . |
| 5 | John was silent , perhaps because of this rather daunting information , the proximity of Ianthe 's aunt 's sister making his room on Campden Hill seem rather less likely . |
| 6 | This word is sometimes used with the sense of forming a conclusion or deduction , e.g. ‘ she left at 8 o'clock , so she must have arrived by now ’ ; when ‘ must ’ is used in this way , it is rather less likely to occur in its weak form than when it is being used in its more familiar sense of ‘ obligation ’ . |
| 7 | Paying attention to those lessons would make disappointment in Russia and Eastern Europe a little less likely , and it would remind governments that , nearly always , there are more useful ways of bestowing generosity than the questionable methods adopted in Russia 's case . |
| 8 | This makes it a little less likely that mud , attached to the log , will wash off during the journey . |
| 9 | Although there is much social and occupational mobility , and our choice of marriage partner is wider than it used to be , we are obviously most likely to meet and continue acquaintance with people used to similar standards of living , values and expectations . |
| 10 | Any internal disciplinary measure to contain such an account is much less likely to become of public concern in the way that the Clive Ponting or the Cathy Massiter prosecutions became notorious causes célèbres . |
| 11 | This elaboration indicates the process of social change , for it reveals an increasing separation between ‘ real polises ’ and a public who are much less likely now to accept police versions of reality ; while increasing ‘ civilianization ’ within the forces presents another perceived challenge to the defensive integrity and introspection of the institution . |
| 12 | but nothing appears much less likely |
| 13 | This makes creditors much less likely to agree to private work-outs . |
| 14 | Those theorists trying to repair the weak interaction should be able to fix it so that the right-handed tau neutrino is much less likely to interact with other matter than the left-handed one is , and thus stays aloof during the big bang . |
| 15 | Compared with the other great all-rounders of his time , Imran Khan , Richard Hadlee and Kapil Dev , he is certainly the best batsman and best slip fielder , but Hadlee and Imran are more dangerous bowlers , and much less likely to have a bad day . |
| 16 | If your standard way of eating ( or your slimming diet ) includes a mix of proteins , complex carbohydrate , and fresh fruits at each meal , you are much less likely to eat large amounts of refined sugar or the products that contain it . |
| 17 | You can only lose power with the roll system — and that 's much less likely . |
| 18 | Elderly couple households fare much the same as all households , but elderly persons living alone are much less likely to benefit from such goods . |
| 19 | Sheer numbers mean that widows are much less likely to remarry than widowers : there simply are n't enough men of their age around . |
| 20 | As a general rule books intended to attract ‘ browsing ’ readers are much less likely to warrant binding . |
| 21 | If the patient 's fever took several days to appear then it is much less likely to be Belladonna no matter how much the rest of the picture looks like it . |
| 22 | It 's an encouraging if surprising fact that children and young people are much less likely to smoke when parents tell them that they do n't want them to . |
| 23 | In support of this theory is the fact that zebras are much less likely to suffer from certain insect-carried diseases than other equines . |
| 24 | It 's already known that women who take the contraceptive pill are much less likely to develop it . |
| 25 | Celebrities are much less likely to die from heart attack or stroke , but that is probably only because they die young in other ways . |
| 26 | People on higher incomes may use quite a wide range of credit sources , but are less likely than average to buy on mail order , much less likely to use HP , and very much more likely to use bank credit cards , bank loans and overdrafts . |
| 27 | They are much less likely to be using mail order . |
| 28 | They were much less likely to say there were laws or regulations protecting people who take out credit agreements , and much more likely not to know whether any action could be taken over some credit agreement which they had signed but later felt was unfair . |
| 29 | But heavy users of credit were much less likely to label it as expensive . |
| 30 | Pensioners were anyway much less likely than others to have used many sources of credit , though the types of credit for which their awareness was relatively high were moneylenders , mail order , shop accounts and tallymen . |