Example sentences of "is likely [verb] [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither side is likely to take any unnecessary risks in a key game for both teams , so a draw is likely . |
| 2 | Please let me know if this is likely to cause any serious problems . |
| 3 | If a Chancellor has decided that certain conduct in one case is against conscience , he is likely to decide that similar conduct is against conscience in another : the chances are that another Chancellor will decide the same . |
| 4 | Switch is likely to resist any such application . |
| 5 | The characteristics and attitudes of people entering the sector as owner/occupiers is considered to be especially important and is likely to mark this small business sector as unique in relation to other sectors . |
| 6 | Increasing contestability is likely to make some natural monopolies not sustainable ( e.g. the single-product rising cost cases ) , but in other cases the effect will be to discipline pricing behaviour more severely . |
| 7 | Firstly , the results may simply be due to chance since a search for clusters is likely to reveal some spatial aggregations of cases even if there is no causal explanation : this is particularly true if the age groups , areas , calendar periods , and diagnostic groups to be studied are not specified in advance . |
| 8 | Roxburgh 's team for the friendly match with Germany is likely to exclude all English-based players and there is now a doubt over the availability of Leeds United 's captain , Gary McAllister , for the meeting with Portugal . |
| 9 | Its religious music is likely to fit that particular station 's music policy in aiming at its target age-range . |
| 10 | The programmed is likely to displace some 15,000 Auyu tribal people , most of whom depend on the forest as hunter-gatherers or rubber tappers . |
| 11 | That is likely to cost several thousand pounds , and the Scottish Legal Aid Board has already rejected his application to do that . |
| 12 | However , the directive is likely to remove any real distinction between personal data held on paper and on electronic systems . |
| 13 | The Children Act 1989 is likely to require much more account to be taken of the children 's views and those of their parents and other interested parties , but it is a process which is still seen as difficult , and is less frequently carried out than is desirable . |
| 14 | The more striking the colours , the easier they are to remember — no predator is likely to forget these particular insects . |
| 15 | The recent announcement of a link up between the EC and EFTA to create a European Economic Area [ EEA ] by 1993 is likely to have little immediate impact on the proportion of exports destined for these areas , partly because privileged access to each others markets has already been in existence for a number of years between the two trading blocks . |
| 16 | The fact that the directors ' discretion is not reviewable , therefore , means in short that the section is likely to have little causative impact : it does not compel the directors to do anything they would not otherwise have been inclined to do . |
| 17 | The details also give a home number to contact at the evenings and weekends essential if the story is likely to have any national significance . |