Example sentences of "is likely that [adj] [noun pl] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the present government 's policies continue , it is likely that private companies will run these operations . |
| 2 | However , it is likely that fixed costs would increase , but we have no available information to assess this possible option . |
| 3 | It is likely that outside consultants will be employed by the Health and Safety Executive . |
| 4 | When it came to structuring the District Health Authorities in the form which existed until 1990 , the Department of Health stipulated that ‘ it is important to make appointments only where it is likely that prospective members will have the health and vigour to make an effective contribution throughout their term of office . |
| 5 | However , without the lucky discovery of the Rosetta Stone , it is likely that Egyptian hieroglyphics would still be a mystery to us . |
| 6 | It is likely that general SVQs will be developed in a number of these areas for implementation in 1993 . |
| 7 | Since pigeons ' ears are not exceptional , it is likely that many birds can pick up infrasound . |
| 8 | It is likely that many changes will take place in the near future . |
| 9 | With the increasing growth of the futures market though , it is likely that such problems will occur again . |
| 10 | In view of the conclusions of the last chapter , it is likely that such patterns will be archaic and also confused by local fluctuations in dispersal agents and this may be exacerbated in regions of geological instability , e.g. New Guinea with confusing variation patterns as in the tree Chisocheton lasiocarpus ( Meliaceae ) and the herbaceous Impatiens hawkeri ( Balsaminaceae ) . |
| 11 | ‘ Although it is likely that future gains will be more modest , profitability will be robust , ’ it said , adding that the industry can also expect to benefit from growing demand , especially from canny corporate customers , and from balanced regulation — public service commissions are increasingly approving alternative regulatory plans which permit the companies to boost earnings above a targeted level , provided they improve efficiency and share earnings gains with their subscribers . |
| 12 | The advice ( Devon County Council 1990:12 ) was that Each school must decide for itself exactly what to include but it is likely that all schools will want to include the following documents : a statement of the school 's aims and values ; a statement of priorities chosen for development in the current year ; a list of objectives to be tackled in the next two or three years ; an outline of how the curriculum will be developed and specially of how the National Curriculum will be introduced ; staff development plans , including the in-service education and a training plan for the current financial year ; plans for the use and development of the school 's resources ; the school 's approved budget for the current financial year . |
| 13 | If some special mechanism such as that implicated in the ‘ Now Print ! ’ theory ( Brown and Kulik , 1977 ; Livingston , 1967a 1967b ) were operating in cases of flashbulb memories it is likely that similar findings would have been observed in the eyewitness testimony literature . |
| 14 | Most of the people , just over two thirds , who spent all the last year of their life in a residential or nursing home were 85 or more , and it is this age group which is predicted to increase most rapidly in the next twenty years ( Central Statistical Office ( CSO ) , 1989 ) so it is likely that increasing numbers will spend the last year of their lives in such homes . |
| 15 | Although the obligation to provide instruction about maintenance is to be limited only to the first occupier , it is likely that subsequent purchasers will require the information to be passed on every time the property is sold . |
| 16 | It is likely that overseas institutions will simultaneously be increasing the proportion of UK equities in their portfolios . |
| 17 | It is likely that large companies will reserve a proportion of the jobs they fill annually , for Compact students . |
| 18 | It is likely that most Partnerships will wish to employ more comprehensive monitoring and evaluation techniques . |
| 19 | As resources are limited , priorities for reviews must be established , and in fixing these there is inevitably , and correctly , an element of going for ‘ soft ’ targets — those where it is likely that significant benefits can most easily be achieved . |
| 20 | Indeed , it is likely that both phenomena will be at work simultaneously within an industrial relations structure such as prevails in Britain where trade unions are anxious not only to protect the real wages of their members from erosion by exogenous price increases but also to preserve their position in the pecking order of wage differentials . |
| 21 | In the light of the inquiry into the Orkney affair , it is likely that these submissions will have to be looked at again , and new laws drafted . |
| 22 | It is likely that these findings will be strongly disputed in some quarters : understandably , because no individual or organization wishes to be depicted in terms other than those of the most scrupulous integrity and open-mindedness where such matters are concerned . |
| 23 | Whenever a CU is formed it is likely that some industries will flourish in certain countries as the market widens . |
| 24 | Many of them are in old , dilapidated buildings , and it is likely that some authorities would take the opportunity to reduce surplus places by closing them . |
| 25 | Under these circumstances it is likely that some schools will be less willing to take pupils with special educational needs . |