Example sentences of "likely [prep] be in the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The answer is likely to be in the kitchen . |
2 | The only other thing that you heard Sergeant say that some how at the briefing he 'd been given information that was likely to be in the master bedroom . |
3 | I 'd go a little bit further and say well it 'd be much more likely that husband and wife would be in the master bedroom with in the small bedroom , but as you say er the adults or anybody indeed in the flat is likely to be in the bedrooms at that time , but Sergeant you see went a bit further and said that at the briefing , somehow he got information that was likely to be in the master bedroom so I understand your evidence , you certainly did n't get that impression at the brief . |
4 | A Fire Service spokesman said : ‘ We were told from a reliable source the youths were still likely to be in the building so we conducted a thorough search . |
5 | However , not all the evidence supports this view ; both Hill and Saville found that , while women were more numerous among the youngest groups of migrants , men were more likely to be in the majority in the older groups . |
6 | People living in the houses were also less likely to be in the company of individuals who had competing needs to their own ; clients living in staffed houses were likely to be the only service user in the room for 63 per cent of the time ( and mostly with just one other for the remainder ) , compared with 42 per cent in the three ‘ campus ’ houses , 33 per cent in ordinary hospital wards and 27 per cent in special units . |
7 | The most probable takers are likely to be in the category : under 45 ( under 40 for women ) , high flyer , mobile worker in the sense of wanting to change jobs at some stage and well-off older people who are not covered by company arrangements . |
8 | Today many live on something close to the Church 's minimum stipend of £12,200 a year and their accommodation is more likely to be in the council semi mould . |
9 | There is also another way in which being female has an effect ; women are more likely to be in the kind of low status , perhaps unpleasant , jobs where absenteeism is more likely irrespective of sex . |
10 | The Old Boys will hope that their captain , England international Julian Halls , who has been plagued with injuries since the summer , comes through a second XI game today without problems ; if so , he is likely to be in the squad . |
11 | No , when we have a fund-raiser in Thanet it is more likely to be in the nature of a ’ Knees Up , Mother Brown ’ in the Eagle cafe at the end of Ramsgate harbour . |
12 | I 'd go a little bit further and say well it 'd be much more likely that husband and wife would be in the master bedroom with in the small bedroom , but as you say er the adults or anybody indeed in the flat is likely to be in the bedrooms at that time , but Sergeant you see went a bit further and said that at the briefing , somehow he got information that was likely to be in the master bedroom so I understand your evidence , you certainly did n't get that impression at the brief . |
13 | In discussing the extent to which sentencing discretion in England and Wales has been subject to control in the past , or is likely to be in the future , we will adopt the threefold classification elaborated by K.C. Davis ( 1969 ) : viz. confining discretion ( or restricting the scope of discretionary power that is available ) ; structuring discretion ( or regulating its exercise in advance ) ; and checking discretion ( or reviewing the way it has been exercised in the past ) . |
14 | Nonlinear optics is perhaps unique among systems showing chaos in that a fully quantum mechanical description of the phenomena is conceivable : there is the interesting and exciting prospect that the next few years may reveal what , if anything , is meant by " quantum turbulence " , and all-optical systems such as those described or proposed above are likely to be in the forefront of experimental tests of such concepts . |
15 | It was most likely to be in the form of a questionnaire ( 40% of the 234 assessed programmes ) , or a written report ( 22% ) , with examinations being appropriate in a further 25% of cases . |
16 | Finally , both initiatives are capable of incorporating graded assessment information ; in the case of the GCSE this is most likely to be in the form of an equation on the graded assessment certificate ; in the case of records of achievement such attainment will simply be noted on the record . |
17 | The real pain is likely to be in the Midlands . |
18 | Furthermore users are not likely to be in the situation of being able to contrast comparable courses . |
19 | The army was an unsatisfactory occupation for a man who lacked the money to purchase promotion , for he was likely to be in the situation of the Master of Elphinstone , who complained in 1715 that ‘ I have served as Capt[ai-n] this nine years which I have the vanity to believe intitelis me to something better than a company of foot ’ . |
20 | Volkswagen is considering a price rise , likely to be in the region of three per cent . |
21 | The point at which the saving of the differential tax at 15% on income outstrips the increased National Insurance liability is likely to be in the region of earnings of £75,000 as is illustrated by the following example . |
22 | It is understood , however , that the new owner will be a UK company and that the price is likely to be in the region of £25 million to £30 million . |
23 | Whoever wins that bout is likely to be in the semi-finals , which should guarantee an Olympic place . |
24 | Carradine and I decided he was most likely to be in the Noir et Blanc . |
25 | And we had two shields , we had two separate teams to go immediately to the two bedrooms which , in our er esti est estimations , that will be where any adults were more likely to be in the flat . |
26 | But these complainants are not really likely to be in the Mendel class ( are they ? ) . |