Example sentences of "likely [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] [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 | The biggest European danger to Millar seems likely to come from the six-strong German contingent , who include two of their Seoul Olympic gold-medal team , Franke Sloothaak and Ludger Beerbaum . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They therefore have much more freedom and scope for accommodation , and are much less likely to conform to the same fixed pattern . |
| 9 | In bilingual communities undergoing a process of language shift , the sexes are likely to focus on the new monolingual norm at different rates ( Gal 1979 ) . |
| 10 | Voters who live in class-specific communities are more likely to vote for the relevant class-specific party than are those not living in such communities . |
| 11 | As a result , Uzzell reckons that the market is likely to polarise over the next few years . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I E , he 's likely to die within the next twelve months . |
| 14 | Again , the Corinthians ( i.42 ) urge the Athenians to remove the ‘ previously existing suspicion on account of the Megarians ’ , where ‘ previously , is more likely to refer to the early 430s than to Megarian behaviour c.460 , which was not something Athens could do much about now . |
| 15 | In this area , market forces are likely to decide between the various competing standards before official bodies make up their minds . |
| 16 | L7 LOOK like the women most likely to break into the big-time mainstream rock market , pushed along by constant comparisons to big male guns like Metallica and Nirvana . |
| 17 | Worse still , of course , is the prospect of recording progress within ‘ the Record of Achievement ’ which all schools , at least at the secondary level , are likely to have by the early 1990s as a result of government policy and local initiative . |
| 18 | The supply of hours is likely to depend on the standard real wage , the overtime real wage and workers ’ preferences for income and leisure . |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | However , the current situation is likely to change over the next few years , as major advances in technology take place . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But an evolutionary decrease in the rate of ageing in humans is likely to occur over the next few generations . |
| 24 | 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 . |