Example sentences of "is likely [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Dave Higgins , who missed Friday 's match with a stomach complaint , is likely to return to the Rovers defence but other changes will be at a minimum . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ( Clue : what is likely to happen to the rate of interest ? ) |
| 8 | There are wider implications : what is happening in London today is likely to happen in the rest of Britain tomorrow . |
| 9 | What is likely to happen in the future , and — in particular — what are the likely consequences of the changes in the health service ? |
| 10 | What is likely to happen in the future to the number of children in the Hebrides ? |
| 11 | A Plec is not recommended , not because of any effect on the mating , but because it is likely to polish off the eggs at night . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The greatest error is likely to derive from the migration component . |
| 25 | Chapter 9 considers who can act as an expert : as the answer is anyone whom the parties appoint , safeguards are built into the expert clause to provide that a suitably qualified person is likely to act as the expert . |
| 26 | In the absence of disagreement or uncertainty , a court is likely to rely on the exchange 's own interpretation of its rules . |
| 27 | If legal help is sought , the lawyer is likely to rely on the precedents which are published . |
| 28 | Given that the cartridge may need to be removed for the purpose of transporting the printer , it means that , should any toner be spilled from the cartridge , it is likely to fall below the paper path , and so not contaminate the rest of the machine and subsequent print-outs . |
| 29 | The responsibility for organising the training and co-ordination of ministries , including that of musicians , is likely to fall upon the clergy . |
| 30 | The vendor is likely to agree to the target 's providing this information only if the purchaser enters into a confidentiality undertaking . |