Example sentences of "are likely [verb] [adv] on the " in BNC.
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1 | The cheaper RISC-based machines are likely to impinge directly on the territory occupied by the company 's newly announced Pentium machines . |
2 | The cheaper RISC-based machines are likely to impinge directly on the territory occupied by the company 's newly announced Pentium machines . |
3 | Active swimmers in the surface waters of the present oceans are likely to feed directly on the plankton , and the trilobites may have had a method of harvesting large quantities of minute food . |
4 | ‘ The questions on education are likely to reflect badly on the children even though everyone involved may be dong their utmost for them . ’ |
5 | A little unsporting maybe but then none are likely to end up on the dinnerplate or as a fisherman 's trophy . |
6 | On present form , future generations are likely to look back on the 1992 election — with its emphasis on marginal tax rates — as at best rather quaint , or at worst a tragic irrelevance . |