Example sentences of "it unlikely that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why is it unlikely that depreciation will provide for replacement of the fixed asset ? |
| 2 | An OECD study in 1989 found it unlikely that MOX could compete with uranium under realistic circumstances . |
| 3 | Why is it unlikely that industrialists will choose to build factories at these places ? |
| 4 | Unless the United Nations peacekeepers proved very much tougher in Serbia than they have done in Croatia , that would have made it unlikely that Croats and Muslims would have felt secure enough to return to their former homes . |
| 5 | ‘ The cases in which the principle has been applied are cases in which the nature , scope and purpose of the function vested in the repository made it unlikely that Parliament intended that it was to be exercised by the repository personally because administrative necessity indicated that it was impractical for him to act otherwise than through his officers or officers responsible to him . |
| 6 | This not only makes it unlikely that employers will allow many such sessions per day ( and that is a disadvantage scientifically ) but it also means that the tests , particularly by virtue of necessarily being repetitive , are boring for the subject . |
| 7 | As regards property , it should be noticed that law and practice , to a large extent , make it unlikely that property of any considerable value will come into the direct ownership of an infant . |
| 8 | This makes it unlikely that Edward had sought a protectorate . |
| 9 | This makes it unlikely that Edward had sought a protectorate . |
| 10 | While this evidence makes it unlikely that children learn grammar through reinforcement of ‘ correct ’ utterances , it leaves open the question of the role of reinforcement in the development of different language functions . |
| 11 | Although the Yugoslavs had so far had no indication that they were being taken to anywhere but another camp , probably in Italy , and therefore McCreery would have observed an operation apparently going smoothly , we think it unlikely that Verney , Rose-Price and others who disliked the fact that Yugoslavs were being repatriated under a misapprehension as to their destination would have failed to ensure that the Army Commander was given a true picture . |
| 12 | Charity with enough resilience to laugh , thought it unlikely that Charles would make a particularly docile prisoner and Clarissa said she 'd write and tell him to behave himself . |
| 13 | This breaking-down of the time barrier could be extremely exciting ; at the same time , the very idea introduces so many paradoxes ( if you communicate with the past you change it ; you therefore change the present ; therefore , in this new present , you never communicated with the past ) that we must think it unlikely that people will ever be able to use tachyons in this way … unless communications were flitting between alternate universes , the existence of which would imply the simultaneous reality of all possibilities . |
| 14 | Only one player a year from List One , and just two in any five-year period , can be signed on by a county making it unlikely that Athey would be able to move . |
| 15 | But the whole tenor of the Bible makes it unlikely that God has built into the Church for ever the limitation of a male-only priesthood . |
| 16 | I thought it unlikely that Xanthe would ever sleep in that car again , so strong was her present reaction . |