Example sentences of "likely [verb] some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On a windy day with a strong wind gradient , you are quite likely to lose some extra height and speed and low approaches are always very risky . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We are clearly past the worst of the unemployment increases , but we are likely to see some erratic figures for a time . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Well , to start with , you are quite likely to meet some fascinating flying men and women before you even get into an aircraft . |
| 6 | The A forty one , the road between Banbury and Bicester , there are temporary traffic lights between the Soldern turn-off , that 's by the Bear public house and the Northampshire border ; that 's likely to cause some long delays . |
| 7 | But even short of this , other critics believe the videos are likely to foster some beneficial change . |
| 8 | The very fact that the visit is ‘ in an entirely private , unofficial capacity ’ ( the Cardinal 's words to me last week ) is more likely to have some beneficial effect in the ‘ diplomatic minefield ’ to which your correspondent refers than the more usual protocol-and-agenda-laden expedition . |
| 9 | You are likely to have some ticklish moments , times when perhaps corpse clashes with comedy . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Firstly , the results may simply be due to chance since a search for clusters is likely to reveal some spatial aggregations of cases even if there is no causal explanation : this is particularly true if the age groups , areas , calendar periods , and diagnostic groups to be studied are not specified in advance . |
| 12 | 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 . |