Example sentences of "[be] [adv] likely to say " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you ask the staff if you can use the toilets in an emergency they 're quite likely to say ‘ There 's a McDonald 's down the road , why do n't you try there ? ’ ’ |
| 2 | When politicians tell us to copy other European countries , the British are more likely to say ‘ Sod off ’ than ‘ Hear , hear ’ . |
| 3 | And go to words of meaning , erm and the descriptions of colours where men are more likely to say purple whereas women would describe it as aubergine or plum and go into more detail about the shading than the colour . |
| 4 | Then we go to the taboo language and if you talk about when you go to the toilet , if you Everybody excuses themselves to leave and that 's both men and women and then somehow you have to say where you 're going , so the women are more likely to use the polite sort of euphemistic kinds of things like they 'd say toilet or loo , whereas the men are more likely to say bog . |
| 5 | Thus high values of B seem to be associated with unusual situations and drivers going relatively slowly ( i.e. in these cases subjects are more likely to say ‘ No ’ than ‘ Yes ’ when they are in fact unsure whether they saw the film previously ) . |
| 6 | We can examine whether the Social Attitudes Survey in 1984 finds the same pattern ; we might expect , on the basis of this reasoning , that the more educated people would be less likely to say that they would break an unjust law . |
| 7 | This understanding may be due to the farmers being highly tolerant because there are so few walkers , but if you 've ever sat down to have a chat with a shepherd on the windy fellsides you might be more likely to say that tolerance and friendliness is in their nature . |
| 8 | Yeah , cos then she might be more likely to say yeah . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm hardly likely to say that they 're slim , am I , Stew ? ’ said Jack . |
| 10 | When I talk to archdeacons about this , they are quite likely to say ( with some notable exceptions ! ) , |
| 11 | Moreover , it was those that were most likely to suffer long periods of unemployment and non-employment and for whom early retirement was a realistic option , i.e. those aged 60–64 , who were most likely to say that it would be very effective in dealing with unemployment : 46 per cent , compared with 34 per cent of the 55–59 age-group and 30 per cent of those under 30 . |
| 12 | This indicated that Inner London and County libraries were most likely to regard themselves as offering formal induction training , County libraries were more likely to say that they offered formal training of most types , and that Outer London and Metropolitan libraries made most distinction between training offered to professional and non-professional staff , Scottish , Welsh and Northern Ireland libraries , least . |
| 13 | Libraries with no training officers were more likely to say that decisions were made by chief executives , and to specifically note that local authority approval was needed . |
| 14 | As Appendix II , and indeed the main survey results , make clear , it is not necessarily low income which makes credit at the same time both an obvious refuge and an unduly heavy burden — though in the main survey we found that in general people on low incomes were more likely to say that they were worried about money than people on high incomes . |
| 15 | It is interesting to note that detailed cross-tabulations of the main survey data ( not included in Appendix 1 ) showed that in general people who consider credit to be ‘ occasionally necessary ’ ( rather than either convenient or sensible , or never a good thing ) were more likely to say that any of the types would be difficult to arrange . |
| 16 | Similarly , schooled children were more likely to say ‘ they — round ’ than to itemise each member of the array ‘ this — round ; this — round ’ etc . |
| 17 | Migrants were more likely to say that a course would help them change career direction or , if they were currently unemployed , help them get a job . |
| 18 | And people stressing a cost factor as important were relatively likely to say they had had at least some choice between different credit arrangements , whereas people stressing convenience were relatively likely to say there had been only one possibility ( though differences were small ) . |
| 19 | And people stressing a cost factor as important were relatively likely to say they had had at least some choice between different credit arrangements , whereas people stressing convenience were relatively likely to say there had been only one possibility ( though differences were small ) . |
| 20 | The working-class housewife is more likely to say that she ‘ likes ’ or ‘ does n't mind ’ housework , and the typical middle-class response is one of dislike . |
| 21 | Ask a man why he first looks at Page 3 and he 's hardly likely to say ‘ Witty titties ’ . |