Example sentences of "be likely [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | One particular area in which technical terms are likely to cause some problems is that of grammar : and here we shall follow the terminology and general view of grammar presented in Quirk and Greenbaum 's University Grammar of English . " |
| 2 | We are clearly past the worst of the unemployment increases , but we are likely to see some erratic figures for a time . ’ |
| 3 | Even after the release of the original data , our datasets are likely to retain some value , since it would require considerable effort to reproduce them . |
| 4 | But even short of this , other critics believe the videos are likely to foster some beneficial change . |
| 5 | Therapeutic systems which disregard the more subtle aspects of the individual are likely to miss some at least of the precipitating factors in disease causation and are therefore likely to be less effective in treatment . |
| 6 | Now it appears that the four main front runners will continue to dominate the scene though we are likely to witness some elbowing in the scrum . |
| 7 | Factors associated with homosexuality are likely to explain some of the cases among men . |
| 8 | Of course , you are likely to get some people who say that they thought of it first . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , it would seem sensible to say that , given a set of firms in a perfectly competitive market , some of which ( perhaps because of a more concentrated distribution of shares ) face quite tight constraints on their efficiency , these relatively efficient firms are likely to provide some form of policing function over the others . |
| 10 | In brief , the available evidence suggests that branch plants are likely to provide some unskilled but few managerial jobs , and are likely to be less stable employers , although the surviving firms may have greater growth potential than their indigenous counterparts . |
| 11 | Now the indications are that they are likely to provide some funding though we have n't had that formally in writing yet . |
| 12 | Further damage and paint loss , caused by changes in humidity and temperature during the paintings ' absence , are likely to appear some time in the future , as is usual with sensitive panels . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , since evolution is a conservative process our brains are likely to contain some components in common with other mammals in so far as they contain features that were characteristic of the common ancestor . |
| 14 | They give factual information and opinions about aspects of the world and they are likely to contain some of these elements : |
| 15 | And it has to be said that most of us are likely to have some kind of experience when our ego is deflated ; and that can often have a beneficial not a negative effect . |
| 16 | Although this varies a great deal from patient to patient , all post-operative patients are likely to have some degree of anxiety and/or pain . |
| 17 | You are likely to have some ticklish moments , times when perhaps corpse clashes with comedy . |
| 18 | People have to invest their money and most years , whether in an era of low interest rates or high interest rates , they are likely to have some of their capital eroded by inflation , after tax is taken into account , if they just put it in the building society . |
| 19 | Taxi drivers in any East European city are likely to speak some German and , having grasped the problem , he suggested I follow along behind him . |
| 20 | In more normal times , an expansion of money supply would be likely to have some effect on interest rates . |
| 21 | As I left in early afternoon to catch the London train , I reflected that here was as large number of small businessmen who were likely to see some radical changes in the way they operated . |
| 22 | First , although it may not take very long for a trained and experienced therapist to analyse a transcript using LARSP , the procedure itself is relatively technical and is likely to take some time to learn from scratch ( Connolly 1979 ) . |
| 23 | These are the cases of which every newspaper reader in the country is likely to see some mention . |
| 24 | Harbourmaster Bill Broadbent said : ‘ In the short term , construction is likely to cause some inconvenience in the Albert Dock . |
| 25 | The requirement to pay £75 an hour is likely to deter some patients from seeking expert opinion about the justification for their detention and the advisability of seeking discharge . |
| 26 | The circular states : ‘ A change of this significance is likely to encounter some difficulties during the early stages of implementation ’ . |
| 27 | The document proposes the stabilisation of carbon dioxide emissions by 2000 — a target which is likely to disappoint some . |
| 28 | The decision to look outside the bank for a chief executive is likely to assuage some critics of Barclays in the City . |
| 29 | There may be an advantage in laying down a procedure where the application is novel , and/or the parties believe that a particular approach is necessary and that if it is not stipulated an expert is likely to follow some other undesired procedure . |
| 30 | Increasing contestability is likely to make some natural monopolies not sustainable ( e.g. the single-product rising cost cases ) , but in other cases the effect will be to discipline pricing behaviour more severely . |