Example sentences of "it [is] unlikely [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's unlikely that the rest of the audience want to witness a massacre . |
| 2 | Whereas a system by thirds means that it 's unlikely that the council or at least a lot of councils , will suddenly have a quick switch around and you 'll get a greater continuity of policy . |
| 3 | But it 's unlikely that the Pain Teens will ever reign there . |
| 4 | But it 's unlikely that the Pain Teens will ever reign there . |
| 5 | These are the band 's only dates in the British Isles before their headline appearance at Reading Festival , after which it 's unlikely that the band will play here again this year . |
| 6 | ‘ I had n't forgotten , and I 've come round to being sorry that you do , but as it 's unlikely that the hatred is going to change , and since we both know that this is ultimately inevitable , it might as well happen now . ’ |
| 7 | It 's unlikely that the guy can even come in because he 's partner 's away for two to three weeks holiday |
| 8 | The spoken word is a different skill than the written one and it is unlikely that a press release will be used as it stands . |
| 9 | For example , it is unlikely that a Banking dictionary would have sufficient coverage to aid the recognition of medical texts , regardless of how suitable the collocations were . |
| 10 | As our findings indicate that traditional farming techniques cause significant erosion , it is unlikely that a return to prehispanic farming methods would solve the problem of environmental degradation . |
| 11 | However it is unlikely that a set of rules to explain how general language is processed will be available in the foreseeable future . |
| 12 | In the real world , it is unlikely that a product has clear advantages over its competition on all points , and it is clearly part of the selling function for the salesperson to emphasise those superior features and benefits which his product possesses . |
| 13 | However , theoretical and experimental studies of the accretional processes show that it is unlikely that a body with the low mass of the Moon could have accreted in less than about 10 Ma . |
| 14 | In a word like pack for example , it is unlikely that a pattern recogniser , no matter how accurate , will be able to say if the correct sequence of letters is pack , paclc , or padc . |
| 15 | Indeed , it is unlikely that a prosecution in these circumstances would be launched . |
| 16 | The pragmatist might acknowledge this point but would offer the further thought that , under normal circumstances , it is unlikely that a flea 's stray garment could be mistaken for anything else , and that the flea. its garments and any other intimately associated paraphernalia would be more sensibly and helpfully handled as a single record . |
| 17 | Although many patients were unable to complete a VAS on the day of admission , it is unlikely that the NIPPV group were less breathless as the groups were otherwise well matched . |
| 18 | If we have a Family Court on the lines of the Crown Court , as seems inevitable eventually , it is unlikely that the Bar will have an exclusive right of audience . |
| 19 | Unless someone can crack the problem of how to incorporate higher quality displays and graphics cards in an Amstrad PC it is unlikely that the machine will figure largely at the page makeup end of the market . |
| 20 | It is unlikely that the West could have done anything , at that stage , to prevent the communist takeovers in the late-1940s . |
| 21 | Though , within the limits of building activity set by the Labour government , it is unlikely that the development charge procedure seriously affected the supply of land , it is probable that the Conservative government 's plans for private building would have been jeopardised by it . |
| 22 | To give a full description of even a simple evening out at the theatre could cover numerous pages , and it is unlikely that the writer has the time or wish to do this . |
| 23 | It is unlikely that the management will be able to provide such information without breaching their implied or express contractual duties to the company ( see Chapter 2 ) . |
| 24 | Given constraints on public expenditure , it is unlikely that the Government could be persuaded to introduce maintenance grants for 16 to 18-year-olds . |
| 25 | First of all , the coins are not necessarily going to be a representative sample from a particular site , because it is unlikely that the whole find complex will be recovered . |
| 26 | For practical , as well as aesthetical reasons , it is unlikely that the aquarium will be filled with mud and sand , so a variety of suitable hiding places should be provided , I tend to prefer piping ( pond hosing is ideal and comes in a range of bores ) , which I then cover in rocks and Curiowood . |
| 27 | It is unlikely that the InsP 3 /calcium pathway has any role to play in the rapid signal transfer mediated by ionotropic receptors , but there is growing evidence that many metabotropic receptors employ phosphoinositide-derived signals to modulate both neural activity and the neural plasticity responsible for memory . |
| 28 | It is unlikely that the tsar felt more strongly about Jews than about other ethnic groups . |
| 29 | The retrenchment by the courts took place in two House of Lords cases but it is unlikely that the problem has been solved . |
| 30 | No less than 2% of the Russian budget and no less than 6% of local budgets is to be allocated to culture ( although in reality it is unlikely that the State budget , with its huge deficit , will manage more than 0.5% ) . |