Example sentences of "likely [to-vb] [prep] [adj] [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are likely to flower at different times and the effect will be untidy . |
| 2 | All horses are likely to suffer from internal parasites or ‘ worms ’ and should be regularly treated for them . |
| 3 | The paper argues that further education reforms are likely to meet with limited success and that the way to raise educational standards is to promote greater expectations of , and aspirations for , educational success . |
| 4 | Professionals engaged in pre-school and early childhood education are likely to come from separate traditions and may have different perceptions as well as common goals . |
| 5 | This labelling of some learners and teachers as ‘ unsatisfactory ’ is likely to lead to poor motivation and disengagement from the proper tasks of learning and teaching . |
| 6 | Given the present state of understanding regarding the causes and appropriate forms of intervention for children with language difficulties , this kind of short-cut is likely to lead to inadequate assessment and ineffective treatment . |
| 7 | The rise in sea level caused by global warming , for instance , is likely to lead to many deaths and to large changes in population , as a result of flooding . |
| 8 | In their existing forms , reforms looked likely to lead to social unrest and further disturbances . |
| 9 | Above all , the elections have provided a shot in the arm for the Christian right , proving , first , that blacks and Hispanics are more likely to listen to Baptist ministers and Pentecostalist preachers than the likes of Mayor Dinkins and Joseph Fernandez , and , second , that when it comes to gay sex , fundamentalists and Catholics are more than willing to co-operate with each other . |
| 10 | If the shampoo-swilling celebrants of the City , or for that matter the likes of true-blue Sheppard , think for a moment that this man is likely to preside over unfettered mergers and acquisitions activity in the recalcitrant manner of his 12 predecessors since 1979 , they are hopelessly wide of the mark . |
| 11 | is not generally known to those persons who are accustomed or would be likely to deal in those securities but which would if it were generally known to them be likely to materially affect the price of those securities . |
| 12 | ‘ Unpublished price sensitive information ’ is information which relates to specific matters relating to or of concern ( directly or indirectly ) to that company , that is to say it is not of a general nature relating to or of concern to that company and is not generally known to those persons who are accustomed or would be likely to deal in those securities but which if it were generally known to them would be likely to affect the price of those securities . |
| 13 | The police are more likely to react toward those groups and individuals whom they see as being prone to commit criminal actions ; often labelling such individuals before they actually commit a criminal act . |
| 14 | Such events would be likely to result in long-term adversity-unemployment and financial hardship for the first person , loss of family support at the same time as facing the prospects of single parenthood or marrying an unsuitable man ‘ for the sake of the baby ’ for the second . |
| 15 | But the stunting of development in this way is likely to result in parental guilt and some spoiling of the achievements parents and children have accomplished together earlier on . |
| 16 | for systems which are already operating the ergonomist is likely to cooperate with occupational health and safety specialists and to play a part in the consideration of accidents and occupational diseases which might arise from unnecessarily stressful work situations ( p. 294 ) . |
| 17 | The result of both explicit and covert discrimination was that boys were far more likely to succeed at public examinations and to enter higher and further education ( Wilkin , 1982 ) . |
| 18 | It provides us with information which can suggest not only how individuals came to be in their present position but the way they are likely to respond to new difficulties and choices . |
| 19 | Households aged 75 and over are more likely to live in unfit homes and lack basic amenities than other household types . |
| 20 | Some missiles would be likely to leak through each layer but the cumulative effect would be to limit the damage greatly . |
| 21 | Basically , the head teacher must consider it inappropriate for the time being for the pupil to follow the National Curriculum and that either ( 1 ) circumstances giving rise to that opinion are likely to change within six months or ( 2 ) that the pupil may have special educational needs requiring modification of the National Curriculum and temporary exception is necessary while those needs are assessed . |
| 22 | and if there 's gon na be a fire it 's likely to happen in that fish and chip shop . |
| 23 | The analogy with Munros and their associated Tops is obvious , and to collect either is likely to involve above average commitment and dedication over a sustained period of years , and require a broad spectrum of mountaineering skills . |