Example sentences of "was likely [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew him because he had been in Fontanellato for some months , and after wishing him buon giorno and so forth I tried to find out what his duties were and what was likely to happen to the prisoner . |
| 2 | But if it had better-information about what was likely to happen in the economy than the private sector , the government could take such measures . |
| 3 | Because of the country 's particular situation , however , the eventual outcome in the GDR was likely to diverge from the rest of the region . |
| 4 | It was perhaps with this in mind that they decided to spread the only rewards that the Government was likely to confer on the architects for all their work across as wide a field as was possible . |
| 5 | Power was conferred upon the chief officer of police to impose conditions on the holding of public processions where he had reasonable grounds to believe that serious public disorder was likely to ensue from the holding of a procession . |
| 6 | Councillor Tommy Sheridan , SML group leader in Glasgow District Council , said the Labour Party was likely to split over the question . |
| 7 | Faced with this united German front , Napoleon III realized that for him nothing of substance was likely to emerge from the meeting and so he turned it into an exercise in public relations . |
| 8 | The leading layman of the York diocese was the politician whose judgement was likely to weigh with the Crown : Lord Halifax , the former Foreign Secretary , and a devout Anglo-Catholic . |
| 9 | The only other person who was likely to travel under the banner of the Gaijin clan was Sipotai , Vortai 's son , Burun 's brother-in-law . |
| 10 | A survey of the careers of scholars generally in the latter half of the sixteenth century allows one to make explicit a generalization implicit in the evidence of the Muftis ' careers , namely that , as a general rule , the higher the level the scholar reached in the medrese system , the higher he was likely to rise in the mevleviyet system . |
| 11 | The social taboo placed on discussion of birth control and sexuality , and the acceptance by a majority of middle class women of the idea that they lacked sexual drives — what Judith Walkowitz has called the doctrine of passionlessness — meant that little information was likely to come within the purview of women generally . |
| 12 | But tree warden Christine Darter felt nothing was likely to grow on the banks because they were heavily shaded by overhanging trees . |
| 13 | Where the nuisance was in existence at the time the abatement notice was served , and continued or was likely to recur at the time proceedings for a nuisance order began then whether or not it was continuing or was likely to recur at the date of the hearing , the court must also order the defendant to pay the local authority the cost of the proceedings to obtain the nuisance order . |
| 14 | Where the nuisance was in existence at the time the abatement notice was served , and continued or was likely to recur at the time proceedings for a nuisance order began then whether or not it was continuing or was likely to recur at the date of the hearing , the court must also order the defendant to pay the local authority the cost of the proceedings to obtain the nuisance order . |
| 15 | In other cases , individual workers made their own judgements about whether a person was likely to benefit from the care programme approach . |
| 16 | Alexei never rode near enough to talk , but sometimes Burun dropped back and discussed the people Rostov was likely to meet at the Kha-Khan 's court . |
| 17 | An examination of the resources of the two sides at the start of the Spanish Civil War reveals how delicately these were balanced and underlines the influence that the manner of their use was likely to have upon the course of the conflict . |
| 18 | In considering whether the pursuers ' decision to rescind the contract was justified , the Sheriff Principal stated at p 63 : ‘ … the test is not the defenders ’ reasons for their failure to pay , but the effect which , objectively , their conduct was likely to have upon the minds of the pursuers , on the assumption that the pursuers were reasonable men . ’ |