In America you would be more likely to hear “The faculty is meeting today” than “The faculty are meeting today.”
Can “more likely hear” replace “more likely to hear”?
Many thanks.
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No, because the construction is ‘to be more likely to’.
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Torsten, I wonder why it should be ‘you would be more likely to hear’ rather than ‘you are more likely to hear’. The word likely refers to a future possibility.
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I think both are possible – ‘you would be more likely’ as well as ‘you are more likely’. For example, you could say ‘If you went to the US today you would be more likely to hear…’.
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Many thanks, Torsten.
Your sentence is hypothetical.
Can it be written as follows?
In America you are more likely to hear “The faculty is meeting today” than “The faculty are meeting today.” (as suggested by Anglophile).
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Yes, of course it can be rewritten as you suggest 
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