Example sentences of "is likely [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Odd-Knut thinks that it might be best to make a night trip with empty sledges , returning to the camp , especially as a friend of his is likely to arrive for the night .
2 But Britain is likely to press for a deal under which its own industry provides hardware for the satellites .
3 A currency union is likely to lead to a reduction in member countries ' natural rate of unemployment .
4 In sum , any relaxation of marital constraints on women is likely to lead to a rise in the divorce-rate , whether these constraints are ones of tradition or custom or finance .
5 The current expansion and urban growth in the Southern population has also affected the protestant community , and the increased pressure on schools in urban areas , such as Dublin , is likely to lead to a diminution of the protestant-catholic character of most protestant schools , unless deliberate decisions are taken to preserve the balance .
6 That quality , at least initially when combined with other innovation being imposed on the school system , is likely to lead to a distraction of the teachers ' time from the sort of effortless teaching strategies , hard won over decades , as they are drawn into the steep learning curve of the unfamiliar new language of the National Curriculum and its assessment .
7 A court should be slow to draw any such inference , however , since Parliament has in section 4 indicated its intention that an offence should be committed only where the distribution of literature is likely to lead to the use of violence .
8 Adrian Doherty , who missed the Monaghan match because he felt a slight twinge in his knee , is likely to return to the team this afternoon .
9 Mr Gould , a prominent Euro-sceptic in the early 1980s , is likely to argue for the commitment to maintaining sterling 's value within the Exchange Rate Mechanism to be ditched , to increase a Labour government 's room for manoeuvre .
10 There is , however , a chasm between what is becoming technically possible , and the reality of what is likely to happen to the air on our city streets , where , according to Friends of the Earth , pollution levels regularly exceed WHO standards .
11 ( Clue : what is likely to happen to the rate of interest ? )
12 There are wider implications : what is happening in London today is likely to happen in the rest of Britain tomorrow .
13 What is likely to happen in the future , and — in particular — what are the likely consequences of the changes in the health service ?
14 What is likely to happen in the future to the number of children in the Hebrides ?
15 Erm all that sort of leads me back to where I started from , our perception of this survey is that it 's encouraging in the sense that it suggests that the recovery in the economy is erm widening and deepening if you like , it 's widening in the sense that it 's spreading to all the mainland regions of the U K and it 's deepening in the sense that erm firstly , although there are regional variations within this , it 's clearly not purely an export story and it 's not purely a domestic story , it 's a mixture of the two which gives us some reassurance erm it 's also deepening in the sense that there 's no evidence from the survey of anything which is likely to trip up the recovery in the short term , and remember that most of these er questions relate to the next four months , not all of them , but mo most of them relate to the next four months so one does n't want to extrapolate too far forward but nevertheless if you look at erm er most obviously sort of the the crisis and the inflation questions , if you look at er
16 NPAs can only negotiate voluntary management agreements with compensation to prevent environmentally damaging schemes from proceeding ; in 1984 , Snowdonia has objected to 3 schemes ; 2 are under negotiation for agreement and 1 is likely to go to the Minister .
17 Later on during this century a massive senior citizen culture is likely to emerge in the west , and this again will present its marketing opportunities .
18 A fourth , less substantive , Pensions Directive is likely to emerge before the end of 1992 as Brussels makes a supreme effort , under Sir Leon Brittan 's Commissionership , to bring Freedom of Services to the financial sector by ‘ 1992 ’ .
19 There is no overt recognition that fat women do not have equal access to sexual relationships : however , if a fat woman 's friends never ask her whether she is attracted to someone , they assume that she is single because she is fat and that she is likely to remain without a lover .
20 ‘ Butler Henderson ’ , which ended its working days on the Great Central Railway at Loughborough back in February , is likely to remain in the Museum for the foreseeable future .
21 To get some idea of a possible solution to the problem that in potencies higher than the 12C none of the original starting material is likely to remain in the potency , we have to go back to some basic concepts of chemistry .
22 In a hierarchy , a pointer is likely to refer to the owner record — on each lecturer record there could be a pointer to its owner , the head of department .
23 In other words , when it comes to an attempt to understand how someone is likely to respond to a stimulus , a description of the stimulus in terms of its simple physical dimensions is not going to be of any value .
24 So important is the committal rate that in the absence of a significant reduction , pressure for such a reform is likely to resurface in the future .
25 Answer guide : As with item ( f ) above the question of the cost is important to discuss in terms of what future benefit is likely to accrue to the business .
26 Duclos-Lasalle , 37 , who is likely to retire at the end of the season , converted two previous second places , a fourth and sixth , into victory when he arrived alone on the velodrome at Roubaix to one of the warmest welcomes in the long history of the race .
27 Martina Navratilova announced she is likely to retire at the end of next year after she blasted aside Manuela Maleeva-Fragniere 6–2 , 6–2 in the first round of the Virginia Slims championships in New York .
28 But people tend to confuse the fact that one may be able to guess what an individual is likely to choose with the notion that the choice is not free .
29 The greatest error is likely to derive from the migration component .
30 This percentage is likely to decrease as a result of improvements in cable systems .
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