Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] likely [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though it is impossible to date the provisions with any confidence , in favour of dating them in the reign of Mehmed II is the fact that Sultan Murad III ( 982–1003/1574–95 ) , in a firman sent to his Grand Vezir in 985/1577 in connection with reform of the learned profession , speaks of " the ancient law ( kanun ) of Sultan Mehmed Gazi " : it thus seems likely that Mehmed II promulgated some legislation concerning the learned profession , if not these actual provisions . |
| 2 | For heavy goods , especially of timber and stone , it still seems likely that water transport , by river and sea and a little by canal , was cheaper and more expeditious than long-distance travel by road — and that there was sense as well as sentiment , for example , in the devotion the Norman builders showed in England for their native stone from Caen . |
| 3 | Victory gave Charlton their 11th away League win , but it hardly looked likely when captain Gary Bennett headed Sunderland ahead after 56 minutes . |
| 4 | And it also seems likely that Pius XII wanted the cardinals to act as papal legates , representatives of the pope in their different territories , ensuring through the bishops under their charge that true doctrine was taught to the laity . |
| 5 | It also seems likely that Wagner , thirty-one years Nietzsche 's senior and born in the same year as Nietzsche 's long dead father , was in some sense a father-figure and additionally attractive on this account . |
| 6 | It also seems likely that unemployment and other social problems contributed further to the view that Labour offered the only alternative to the failures of capitalism — no matter how illusory that viewpoint may have been . |
| 7 | No doubt both tendencies arose in part because the voters themselves became more strongly partisan at that time ; but it also seems likely that television became more strictly impartial ( thereby offending both Labour and Conservative partisans more ) while the press became more stridently partisan ( Chapter 6 ) . |
| 8 | It also seems likely that subjects ‘ feel ’ subjective risk in the laboratory in much the same way that they experience it when driving . |
| 9 | It now looks likely that pension schemes will only have to backdate any equalisation of benefits between men and women to those in service on or after 17 May 1990 . |