The phrase "make more likely" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it when talking about increasing the probability of something happening. For example: "Efforts are being made to make it more likely that this project will succeed."
Those who refuse to contemplate consulting the British people, would in my view make more likely our eventual exit.
Bessler's father had obesity, and died, at fifty-four, of colon cancer, which obesity is known to make more likely.
I think it is no longer impossible to imagine that ultimately the Conservative party will formally split over Europe – an outcome a referendum could actually make more likely.
This would be a blunder on the American side, helping to make more likely a war whose course nobody can foresee.
If it succeeds, which a Supreme Court decision last month seems to make more likely, it could become more difficult for the government to protect people from being harmed, in small ways and large, by corporations.
Scientists are by and large unwilling to put specific events down to climate change, but it is fair to point out that the drought is the sort of thing such change is expected to make more likely, not less.The priority, in any case, is managing the impacts of the current drought and being better prepared for the next one.
But technologies placed within well-crafted institutional structures can be made more likely safe than not.
Several extreme rainfall events have already been made more likely because of warming, analyses have shown.
That is made more likely because banks are reining in lending to them.
Paradoxically, an EU referendum has been made more likely because pro-EU voices have long wanted to avoid the debate.
"But of course access is made more likely because of the [Oscar] Pistorius decision".
