Example sentences of "likely [to-vb] [prep] further [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | other states to refrain from any act likely to lead to further escalation of the conflict ; and |
| 2 | The convenience of gas if it can stay price-competitive is likely to lead to further penetration of all heating markets . |
| 3 | Since the purpose of the criminal justice system is to deter or prevent crime , inhumane prison conditions must be inconsistent with the broader aims because they seem likely to lead to further crime . |
| 4 | Unless road pricing is applied to all roads , irrespective of their current state of congestion , it is likely to lead to further decentralisation as the motoring public and commerce move out to avoid extra transport costs . |
| 5 | But such behaviour is not obviously threatening ( although it is almost certainly disorderly ) , and it may be doubted whether a conviction of the section 4 offence is proper unless the conduct complained of is such that it is likely to lead to further violence . |
| 6 | But even the most mercenary of foreign firms grows a little queasier about trading with a regime which shoots dead its citizens , and then tries to score popularity points by offering convict labour to foreign factories ; and even the most unreconstructed optimist can see that the resurgence of hard-line Marxists in the Peking power structure is likely to militate against further free-market reforms . |
| 7 | Moreover the rapid increase in child poverty in England , some of which is mitigated ’ — admittedly — ’ by income transfers , is likely to result in further acceleration in the crime rate in the 1990's ’ . |
| 8 | Instead , those against whaling a likely to push for further discussion of the proposal . |