Example sentences of "likely [prep] be [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was hardly likely to be repeated in 1977 , when Niki returned to form with a vengeance and ran off with the championship by a huge margin , leaving Master James stranded in fifth place . |
| 2 | Short-term gains by cheating are likely to be offset by long-term losses that may affect one 's offspring and those of relatives . |
| 3 | Although marriage is likely to be prescribed at some stage of life as a remedy for all kinds of life problems , the images people have of marriage will be different . |
| 4 | That could fall next time because Huntingdon — with 93,000 voters way over the 69,281 limit — is likely to be split in two . |
| 5 | Prisoners who do not of necessity have to be detained for the protection of the public are in some cases more likely to be made into decent citizens if , before completing the whole of their sentence , they are released under supervision with a liability to recall if they do not behave . |
| 6 | Of course the response which is likely to be made to such objections is that God works with human beings , so that only when human society has reached a certain stage of development does it become appropriate to ordain women . |
| 7 | Local authority loans for house purchase are more likely to be made to manual groups and they tend to concentrate on the purchase of older dwellings . |
| 8 | Indeed , their different uses have been investigated by Sanford , Moar & Garrod ( 1988 ; Garrod & Sanford 1990 ) , who showed that pronominal references in continuations are more likely to be made to proper-named characters , and that characters introduced by proper name are more easily accessed for anaphoric reference , as indexed by self-paced reading time . |
| 9 | Thus , young female offenders are more likely to be placed in protective and custodial institutions than are boys whose delinquent or criminal behaviour is similar . |
| 10 | As some of the various meetings , especially the progress meetings , are likely to be attended by all parties it is necessary to arrange for the booking of boardrooms and associated facilities as early as possible as the availability of rooms of sufficient size will be restricted . |
| 11 | She was determined the wedding would be one for the young blind girl to remember , even though it was not likely to be attended by any of the Wychwood gipsies who had been at Boz 's marriage to Nahum 's sister . |
| 12 | Further , they are much more likely to be engaged in part-time work , or homeworking . |
| 13 | Mr erm bearing in mind it its multi role capability and the fact that the U K is likely to be engaged in more and more out of air operations in support of U N er has any consideration been given to a maritime variant . |
| 14 | In comparison to their parent of the same sex , those who responded to the questionnaire were more likely to be engaged in non-manual occupations ( difference 4.2% to 28% for men and 2.7% to 28.7% for women ) . |
| 15 | Any real celebrations in Dublin this year are likely to be laced with black humour , bitterness and irony , as well as laughter , wit and mockery . |
| 16 | Detailed work is likely to be done on this aspect in the future . |
| 17 | [ That this House regrets the Government 's failure to deal with the imminent threat of wholesale breaches of the law on Sunday trading ; expresses concern that Ministers appear to be running away from their responsibility to uphold the law as soon as one or more large commercial organisations express their intention to ignore the law ; greatly regrets the way that this situation puts pressure on responsible and law-abiding retailers to open on Sundays simply to protect their market share ; further regrets the damage that is likely to be done to small shops and family businesses as a consequence ; considers that sensible progress to modernising the law should be made on the basis of the REST proposals put forward by Keep Sunday Special ; and calls on the Government actively to pursue the regulation of Sunday trading in a way which deals fairly with employees , their families and with community and commercial interests . ] |
| 18 | I applaud and support the efforts by Bill Bates , food safety consultant at Control UK , in his attempts to get an arbitration board set up , but have reservations about the priority likely to be given to this by food minister , David Maclean . |
| 19 | If it were for students in Writing , Publishing and Communications then more emphasis is likely to be given to editorial aids and to the structure of the publishing industry . |
| 20 | Twins are more likely to be born to older mothers who already have several children ; they are likely to be born prematurely and/or have difficult births . |
| 21 | For example , if the current price is 103 , the bond is not likely to be called until three years before maturity . |
| 22 | This new study is based on the thesis that agreement on values and purposes is more likely to be achieved at regional level , among peoples of a broadly similar cultural background and experience , than globally . |
| 23 | Men are more likely to be assessed on active behaviours like administration of electric shocks to an experimental confederate . |
| 24 | Whenever they reached an island that was likely to be visited by European sailors again , they would release a few pigs , to run wild , multiply and form a permanent supply of protein — on islands seemingly not well provisioned for humans . |
| 25 | Clearly , borrowers have to weigh up the pros and cons of each mortgage offer — greater flexibility in one area of the lending terms is likely to be balanced by restrictive conditions in another area . |
| 26 | Marine Lieutenant-General Thomas Kelly told reporters that the mopping-up operation is likely to be completed within three days . |
| 27 | They are likely to be beset with other major changes associated with the second half of life . |
| 28 | Communication links between the ‘ explorers ’ and the ‘ implementers ’ need to be strong , although they are just as likely to be based on informal as distinct from formal communications patterns and networks . |
| 29 | The greater the excess supply of labour ( the higher is unemployment ) , the greater will be the downward pressure on wages , though this is likely to be tempered by institutional resistance to wage cuts . |
| 30 | a doleful … sound heard before the deaths of may and most likely to be heard before foul weather . |