Example sentences of "[be] likely [to-vb] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Worse , many bad habits can be especially difficult to cure because they are likely to have been created by anxiety in the first place , and trying to stop the habit increases the horse 's anxiety . |
| 2 | Ellwood et al. ( 1980 ) , however , argued that when the maximum depth of burial ( estimated at 12 km ) and age are taken into account , the sediments underlying the Piedmont , though not as altered as the surface rocks , are likely to have been raised to the greenschist phase of metamorphism and so presumably have little remaining hydrocarbon potential . |
| 3 | But there were other motives , of fashion and adventure and the hope of promotion , which are likely to have been more powerful with many recruits . |
| 4 | The major problems you will have encountered in preparing the consolidated profit and loss account are likely to have been the calculation of the unrealised profit provisions and the minority interest . |
| 5 | However , as noted in passing in the case of fishes , conditions in the oceans are likely to have been less drastically affected than those on land . |
| 6 | They are interpreted as filling volcano-tectonic faults but may also have been feeders to Kuroko-style massive sulphide deposits , though these are likely to have been removed by erosion . |
| 7 | Once this model was working satisfactorily field trials are likely to have been made , possibly with a full sized version in Cornwall . |
| 8 | Fish are likely to have been able to detect sound from a very early period . |
| 9 | By contrast the rare finds of silver objects from Bronze Age Europe , notably those from Sardinia , north Italy and the el Argar culture in southern Spain , are likely to have been made from local occurrences of native metals or ores . |
| 10 | How many craters greater than 1 km diameter are likely to have been produced on 10 6 square kilometres on the lunar surface between 2000 Ma and 1000 Ma ago ? |
| 11 | By use of the alphabetical sequence , it gathers together all aspects of a concrete subject which are likely to have been scattered by a discipline-orientated approach in the basic order of the scheme . |
| 12 | In the context of the current study the relevant distractor items are likely to have been the other exemplars of a particular junction . |
| 13 | Gifts and legacies , which in early times had been very large , can not be assessed very precisely , but are likely to have been considerable . |
| 14 | At least some 6,000 letters are likely to have been issued during Innocent III's reign . |
| 15 | Conditions in England while the tax was being gathered are likely to have been grim , considering the devastation caused by the recent fighting , and that the tribute came on top of the large amounts levied in Æthelred 's reign . |
| 16 | However , the marriage negotiations are likely to have been after 1027 . |
| 17 | By the late eleventh century village churches are likely to have been fairly common : it is known that there were over 400 in Kent . |
| 18 | Since on that occasion they were working with the approval of Fredegund they are likely to have been opposed to Brunhild . |
| 19 | Not many children are likely to have been to a circus ; but although they 're not as glamorous or as attractive as they once were , they still hold a fascination for children . |
| 20 | The contracts for which consents are required are likely to have been revealed by the purchaser 's due diligence exercise and by the vendor 's disclosures . |
| 21 | If , instead , the tax payers had sold their shares for a larger amount , sufficient to enable them to repay the loans , they are likely to have been personally better off , because of indexation allowance to reduce the additional gain deriving from the sale of the shares , and because they would not have suffered an income tax charge under either ss421 or 160 . |
| 22 | So all of those people there or most of them are likely to have been on a list that the school have recommended . |
| 23 | The stolen goods , ranging from sit-on lawn mowers to electric drills , are likely to have been stolen to order by thieves who found easy pickings from garages , garden sheds and DIY stores . |
| 24 | THE two boys who abducted James Bulger are likely to have been his murderers . |
| 25 | Dr Kinlen says children in densely populated urban areas are likely to have been exposed to the infectious agent and built up an immunity to it . |
| 26 | Dunning and Murphy have tried to argue that violent street-gangs , whose antics led to several alarmed inquiries around the turn of the century , were likely to have been present at football matches from the outset . |
| 27 | Sgt. Bamberger then spotted four more coming down out of the sun ( these were likely to have been four of the original six , making their second swoop ) . |
| 28 | Totalling fewer than twenty and confined to a minority of townships , they can hardly have represented more than a fraction of the real number of demises , most of which were likely to have been annual tenancies anyway . |
| 29 | The new charters were likely to have been written in the royal chancery rather than by their recipients , permitting greater uniformity , a more dispositive note , and the regular appearance of only a few royal officials as witnesses . |
| 30 | It seems that new recruits were likely to have been the spies of political opponents or officers of the Special Branch . |