Example sentences of "it [adv] unlikely that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the large increase in the private sector , which has no single administrative body to which all private homes belong , only 12 homes refused to participate in the 1990 census , rendering it most unlikely that the changes in both demography and dependency in any sector are a result of response bias . |
| 2 | I acknowledge that Fish 's enterprise in [ his book ] Is There a Text in this Class ? , unlike Joyce 's in Finnegans Wake , makes it so unlikely that he intended to call the word ‘ pleasurably' an ‘ adverb' that I 'd feel bound — if I were his executor and he dead — to change it . |
| 3 | But Anthony Stroud , racing manager to Old Vic 's owner , Sheikh Mohammed , believes it highly unlikely that the confrontation that every racegoer would love to witness , will take place . |
| 4 | ‘ But I think it highly unlikely that Mr Clowes could have found any means of ensuring that investigation of the matters in question was averted , while at the same time satisfying the Department that his operations could properly be licensed . |
| 5 | This makes it highly unlikely that the council will be able to meet the three-month deadline on any site . |
| 6 | According to the doctor , after the Russian army invaded the museum , members of the family and all museum officials were ordered out at gunpoint , making it highly unlikely that any affectionate gifts were tendered to the occupying officers . |
| 7 | That makes it strategically important that I report back to Earth Central , Defries thought , and of course it also makes it highly unlikely that I 'll survive to do so . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh yes , it did , ’ said Lili , ‘ though , mind you , I think it highly unlikely that anyone would tell you on your wedding day that you looked the most frightful frump — not , ’ she added hastily , ‘ that you did . |
| 9 | Apart from which I would think it highly unlikely that you would even get into my little car . ’ |
| 10 | Congress had given final approval to the bill on Oct. 8 [ see p. 39136 ] , but the fact that the package also included some three dozen minor tax increases made it highly unlikely that Bush would approve it during the election campaign . |
| 11 | This makes it highly unlikely that any further operations would be unknown to us . |
| 12 | Additional transactions from the ‘ background ’ random distribution will only make it more unlikely that seeking and processing can be overlapped . |
| 13 | We regard it as unlikely that many teachers in the near future will be able to handle facilities of this range and power amid the pressures of the classroom . |
| 14 | But while I think it intrinsically unlikely that any of my co-habitees , if I my so describe them , should have committed murder , and I know that I did n't , I do n't know that I can help you very much . ’ |
| 15 | He returned to find the Cross of St George still flapping from the walls of Famagusta and nothing obviously changed except the weather , which would , of course , put out the slow-matches and the fire-missiles and make it increasingly unlikely that the tower of Famagusta was going to prove combustible . |
| 16 | They have also been to the fore in the planning of opposition to the recent Anglo-Irish talks even though they know that the collapse of those talks will make it very unlikely that the constitutional Catholic Social Democratic and Labour Party will take its place in the Assembly . |
| 17 | She turned to Ken , feeling it very unlikely that she 'd know the answer . |