Example sentences of "likely [to-vb] [prep] [art] [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hit by relentless price competition and slumping business conditions , Fujitsu Ltd on Friday forecast that for fiscal 1993 to March 31 , it would report its first loss since it was first listed in Tokyo in 1949 : it sees a group net loss of $322m and a current loss of $169m for the year , against net profit of $103m and current profit of $437m last fiscal — current profit includes gains and losses made on investments in stocks and bonds and sundry profits and losses from other non-operating activities ; ‘ Customers expect lower prices , ’ said Mike Beirne , a Fujitsu spokesman — ‘ the price competition goes from the price war in personal computers right up to mainframes ; ’ the company acknowledges that losses are likely to continue into the first six months of its new year . |
| 2 | They did a first class piece of work on where the housing market was likely to go over the next 10 years . |
| 3 | Now commuting is a consequence of human nature to a large extent , people choose to live away from their place of work and if they do choose to live away from their place of work then we 'll need a much more authoritarian government than we are likely to see in the next ten or twenty years to stop people from living away from their place of work . |
| 4 | These trends are likely to persist within the next five years , and necessitate a continuous review of the IT market-place , and mechanisms to ensure that Garden staff are using the most cost-effective IT in pursuit of Garden priorities . |
| 5 | O N A less acrimonious note , I was glad to read that David Alton , the Liberal Democrat MP for Liverpool Mossley Hill , is likely to stand at the next General Election . |
| 6 | With the humidity likely to lessen over the next 24 hours , Bristol 's all-sand circuit should be in perfect nick for front-running Lady Riptide . |
| 7 | As a result , Uzzell reckons that the market is likely to polarise over the next few years . |
| 8 | Well , th , the definition of a terminal illness as regards that is , according to the underwriters , is that the client 's life is likely to die in the next twelve months . |
| 9 | I E , he 's likely to die within the next twelve months . |
| 10 | Are your needs likely to change over the next few years-will you have children to cope with ; are you likely to entertain more often than you do at present ? |
| 11 | However , the current situation is likely to change over the next few years , as major advances in technology take place . |
| 12 | The company should know what are the future consequences of its existing investments and commitments , and ought to be able to describe , at least in broad terms , some of the most probable scenarios it is likely to face during the next few years . |
| 13 | Held at Chilworth Manor , near Southampton , and organise by Hampshire Training and Enterprise Council , the one-day event examined the key issues which the industry are likely to face during the next three years . |
| 14 | But an evolutionary decrease in the rate of ageing in humans is likely to occur over the next few generations . |
| 15 | Again , it is limited but it shows that an audit failure is three times as likely to occur in the first two years after a change in auditor as in subsequent years . |