Example sentences of "likely [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is the , is the projected grant likely to go up at the same rate as in , as in nine ninety four , ninety five ? |
| 2 | The Wilhelmshaven dockyard had been , in its day , the largest naval yard in Europe , and is likely to go down as the largest purely naval yard in history . |
| 3 | But take away the healthy assurance which grows from personal conviction and every pressure is likely to bear down on the weakened commitment and raise tremors of uncertainty which grow into doubt . |
| 4 | If you are planning to build your own conservatory , you are likely to come up against the new Pat N of the Building Regulations . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | So far , the discussion of this turning-point and the debate over the direction of change has been conducted mainly in terms of what kind of manufacturing sector is likely to emerge out of the economic downturn . |
| 7 | We do have a choice as to whether to make the connection or not , but , as I have said , unless one is aware of it forming at the time , the bond is likely to build up at the instinctive level . |
| 8 | The first details we have of the latter , in the Host 's invitation to him to follow the Monk , initially suggest , if we still believe appearances and associations can be a sign of character , that he is as likely to turn out as the threadbare and serious Clerk on his horse " " as leene as is a rake " " does ( I : 284 ) as to prove to be what the Monk has proved not to be : |
| 9 | Obviously the snake arrangements required intervention by domestic monetary authorities when currencies looked likely to break out of the 2¼ per cent band . |
| 10 | Nigel Duerdoth of the National Federation of Housing Associations thinks that the new payment system for hostels is ‘ most likely to break down in the inner cities — the areas where stress is greatest and hostels are most concentrated and needed ’ . |
| 11 | Potentially the customer holds the strong cards at this stage of the discussion : the hotelier or restaurateur knows what his business problems are and knows what the computer system is going to have to achieve — and the potential buyer , who has thought this through before the supplier appears , is more likely to end up with the right system . |
| 12 | Now , with the Japanese brandishing megabucks under his nose , Christie looks increasingly likely to head off for the Far East en route to the World Cup final in Havana a week later . |