Example sentences of "be likely [to-vb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those with less internal resources are likely to contract the whole project out . |
| 2 | Parents who succeed in adopting a child are likely to take the whole matter of their upbringing even more seriously and conscientiously than many who have given birth to their children . |
| 3 | With their experienced hooker David Watkinson still struggling for fitness , Dewsbury are likely to retain the same side as Sunday . |
| 4 | Thus , the returns during trading on each market are likely to lead the closed market returns for the other markets , and this is what Becker , Finnerty and Tucker found , except that the Nikkei Stock Average did not lead the FT-SE 100 . |
| 5 | Many Western companies , frustrated by restrictions on sales to the eastern bloc , are likely to find the Soviet technology sales drive particularly galling . |
| 6 | If you understand what it happening , then you are likely to get the above sequence correct . |
| 7 | However , they are likely to get the best start in life if they are given an ample helping of peat-like compost in the hole . |
| 8 | Together the two divisions are likely to provide the entire increase in the company 's taxable profits this year . |
| 9 | The Belgians are likely to provide the individual winner in either Vincent Rousseau , who dominated the Euro Cross from 1984 to 1988 , or Joes Maes , a runner-up to Hackney last year . |
| 10 | Even if people are woken up and asked to learn something , if they go straight back to sleep they are likely to forget the whole episode . |
| 11 | The most generally accepted mechanism of evolutionary change is the modern version of Darwinian natural selection , based on the simple propositions that ( a ) like begets like , though with minor , essentially chance , variations ; ( b ) all organisms are capable of producing more offspring than actually can survive to maturity and reproduce in their turn ; ( c ) those offspring that do survive to reproduce must in some way be variants that are better adapted to their environment than those that fail ; and ( d ) those favoured variants are likely to reproduce the favourable variation in their own offspring . |
| 12 | The available evidence suggests that , in terms of both the purchase of services and material inputs , indigenous firms are likely to have the higher level of local linkages ( Lever 1974 ; Marshall 1979 ; Watts 1981 ) . |
| 13 | Deeper lakes are likely to have the bottom sediment-covered , and the lower water layers may remain unstirred and stagnant . |
| 14 | His preferences can be illustrated by means of a set of indifference curves which are likely to have the same shape as those depicted in Chapter 4 for the case of an individual choosing between two goods . |
| 15 | When thesis subjects as broad as juvenile delinquency in the South or differential fertility in the U.S.A. are chosen — subjects which transcend any bounds of accomplishment during graduate work and which are not definitely formulated — they are likely to bring the young research person to a state of despair when he realizes that the masses of material he has assembled answer no questions , neither confirm nor refute any hypothesis , and yield nothing toward developing a scientific sociology . |
| 16 | It briefly examines the legacy of private development during the nineteenth and earlier twentieth century and the nature of the pressures for taking the railways into state ownership , which are likely to influence the subsequent development of industrial relations . |
| 17 | While NCR 's shareholders are celebrating , Ma Bell 's are likely to suffer the inevitable hangover . |
| 18 | Mr. McGregor recognised the force of this and accepted that , had not statute intervened , the judges would have been likely to extend the English law of negligence to accommodate the requirements of justice . |
| 19 | ‘ I am no more likely to privatise the health service than I am likely to join the Labour Party , ’ he said . |
| 20 | There would be difficulties in incorporating the protection of these units into the general system and individual protection by total flooding units by Halon or would be likely to give the best defence . |
| 21 | He would hardly be likely to say the same thing about Kylie . |
| 22 | On the other hand , it is my opinion that when a decision-making body is called upon to reach a decision which arises out of the relationship between two persons or firms , only one of whom is directly under the control of the decision-making body , and it is apparent that the decision will be likely to affect the second person adversely , then as a general proposition the decision-making body does owe some duty of fairness to that second person , which , in appropriate circumstances , may well include a duty to allow him to make representations before reaching the decision . |
| 23 | The combination of a graphics modeller with spatial and functional associativity would be likely to provide the optimum design tool . |
| 24 | If the Government were likely to meet the full cost , the proposal would be unnecessary . |
| 25 | Energy efficiency may be the quickest way to abate emissions of carbon dioxide but it is hard to imagine it being applied effectively in Third World countries , whose output of the gas is likely to overtake the developed world 's in the second or third decade of the next century . |
| 26 | Before the Director General can take action under the Regulations , the advertisement must be such that it both deceives or is likely to deceive and is likely to affect the economic behaviour of those whom it reaches or to injure a competitor of the trader ( usually the advertiser ) whose interests the advertisement is promoting . |
| 27 | In particular , abstraction of water is likely to affect the generating capacity of the Lake Kariba dam downstream . |
| 28 | This bargaining power is likely to push the real value of a deal through the £4 million barrier . |
| 29 | ( b ) he persistently withdraws or withholds services reasonably required for the occupation of the premises in question as a residence , and ( in either case ) he knows , or has reasonable cause to believe , that the conduct is likely to cause the residential occupier to give up the occupation of the whole or part of the premises or to refrain from exercising any right or pursuing any remedy in respect of the whole or part of the premises . |
| 30 | ( 2 ) This section also applies if , at any time after 9th June 1988 , a landlord ( in this section referred to as " the landlord in default " ) or any person acting on behalf of the landlord in default — ( a ) attempts unlawfully to deprive the residential occupier of any premises of his occupation of the whole or part of the premises , or ( b ) knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that the conduct is likely to cause the residential occupier of any premises — ( i ) to give up his occupation of the premises or any part thereof , or ( ii ) to refrain from exercising any right or pursuing any remedy in respect of the premises or any part thereof , does acts likely to interfere with the peace or comfort of the residential occupier or members of his household , or persistently withdraws or withholds services reasonably required for the occupation of the premises as a residence , and , as a result , the residential occupier gives up his occupation of the premises as a residence . |