Example sentences of "likely to be [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She positively reinforced this new behaviour making it more likely to be repeated to the point where it became a problem . |
| 2 | This is hardly likely to be repeated in the developing countries . |
| 3 | Thus , they contend that losses resulting from the automatic prohibition of mergers above a certain size are unlikely to be substantial , and are more than likely to be offset by the benefits arising from the creation of a climate of greater certainty and competition . |
| 4 | ‘ In the past century bishops were more likely to be consulted by the government . |
| 5 | The four-party Swedish coalition is likely to be split on the issue , with Environment Minister and Centre Party leader Olof Johansson under strong pressure to drop the project . |
| 6 | The two new figureheads , one man and one woman , are likely to be selected from the six speakers chosen by the party during the conference . |
| 7 | Mann is likely to be selected by the Kiwis for their three-Test tour of England next season , which would leave an overseas berth , alongside Kelly Shelford and Greg Mackey , open . |
| 8 | Cheap counterfeit copies are not likely to be made to the safety standards of the real thing . |
| 9 | A final decision on Piggott 's Derby mount is likely to be made by the weekend . |
| 10 | Assuming that the DBMS permits a number of alternative file organisation techniques ( which is normally the case ) , the actual organisation chosen for any particular data structure will depend on which is the most efficient for that particular application , and this decision is likely to be made by the database administrator . |
| 11 | And doubts were expressed as to its value given the conceded fact that only a small dent was likely to be made in the pigeon population . |
| 12 | Whatever the future pattern of health care in London , it must make adequate provision for the demands likely to be made in the immediate future . |
| 13 | Le Monde reported on Oct. 1 that the dispute was likely to be placed before the UN Security Council during October , while France held the presidency at the Security Council . |
| 14 | And indeed er the Association of er Chartered er er the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants wrote to me recently er asking exactly what the position is and I quote from the letter , they say firms of accountants are quite likely to be engaged by the same client to perform services other than a statutory audit and then they go on to list financial planning and so on . |
| 15 | Poor care is likely to be given throughout the inpatient stay thereby increasing the actual mortality and giving a higher SMR . |
| 16 | Under the New Poor Law practice , unmarried mothers were always more likely to be sent to the workhouse than granted outdoor relief , and once there were left in no doubt of their shameful condition . |
| 17 | You are likely to be looking for the relation between the variable part of the text ( called the INDEPENDENT VARIABLE because you are manipulating it by making changes ) and the variation in the response of the reader ( called the DEPENDENT VARIABLE , because it depends on the variation , or changes , made to the text ) . |
| 18 | But as unsubsidised European supplies of processed milk products increasingly find it difficult to compete on world markets , they are likely to be redirected towards the European internal market . |
| 19 | Anodisation is used to protect aluminium components that are likely to be exposed to the elements . |
| 20 | ( Any weakness in management is , therefore , more likely to be exposed by the use of sub-contract labour . ) |
| 21 | Hence storage at 37°C or 45°C represents correspondingly less acceleration over conditions to which the product is likely to be exposed in the market . |
| 22 | The World Bank plan is likely to be opposed by the timber industry , which has close ties with numerous senior government officials , and by the Foreign Ministry , many of whose employees are alleged to profit by allowing logging restrictions to be ignored . |
| 23 | There is now an expectancy effect created that any new atrocity is likely to be connected to the earlier ones . |
| 24 | Whilst the experiment was limited to trainee engineers and by the type of microcomputer used , the results of this investigation indicated that : 1 ) the mode of man-machine interaction which was most popular and has the fewest dissenters , was one in which the user directed the course of action , as in the modular program ; 2 ) a fast design time was most likely to be achieved by the use of an optimization technique ; 3 ) an optimum design was most likely to be achieved by a preprogrammed optimization technique , but only where the problem , design parameters and constraints were understood ; 4 ) the technique thought most likely to allow some gaining of insight was one in which the user has control of the program , as in the modular program . |
| 25 | He is likely to be thrust into the national political limelight . |
| 26 | Nor is the Thames/BBC project likely to be beset by the teething troubles which plagued the pioneer satellite broadcasters . |
| 27 | The unit is likely to be based at the Bryn-y-Neuadd hospital in Llanfairfeshan , near Bangor . |
| 28 | The fifth wave , the one which it is hypothesized is starting now , seems likely to be based in the non-industrial parts of the south and east of England , especially the M4 corridor and around Cambridge . |
| 29 | The EPA 's conditional approval is also likely to be challenged by the Natural Resources Defense Council which claims that weapons plant wastes are potentially explosive and liable to migrate . |
| 30 | But the move , which would involve suspending pay review bodies , is likely to be challenged by the unions , threatening the Government with more trouble over the winter . |