Example sentences of "but it [verb] likely " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it seemed likely that a scandal of some sort would eventually break . |
| 2 | He no longer had men like Harold Nicolson who had accompanied him to Rome , but it seemed likely that the new deputation to Germany might include William Joyce . |
| 3 | It was impossible , from this distance , to see what he was wearing on his feet , but it seemed likely that he was one short of a full complement of shoes , because in his right hand he was holding a large , brown , elastic-sided boot . |
| 4 | Orrell are content to keep Wasps guessing but it seems likely Kimmins will play — a line-out challenge for Kinsey , O'Leary and Ryan . |
| 5 | What happened over the next few decades is not clear , but it seems likely that the fulling mills were dismantled and by 1801 , Stratford Mills were advertised for sale , solely as a corn mill . |
| 6 | No satisfactory explanation of this decline has been adduced , but it seems likely to have stemmed from changes in agricultural practice . |
| 7 | Of his education little is known but it seems likely that his family engaged a private tutor for him — he may have also have been a private fee-paying pupil at the West of England School for the Deaf at Exeter . |
| 8 | On 29 May anti-aircraft gunners submitted claims for a Ju88 probably destroyed , but it seems likely that they had in fact been firing at one of the Italian Fiats . |
| 9 | But it seems likely that more than four million disabled people and full-time carers are discouraged , disenfranchised and/or discriminated against when it comes to voting . |
| 10 | The fine masonry extended up to the top of the ground floor , but it seems likely that the upper floors — however many there were — were usually made of mudbricks . |
| 11 | The Temple of Diktynna was certainly a celebrated holy place in the classical period ; whether the site was a centre of her worship in the Minoan period is not known , but it seems likely . |
| 12 | Feats as daring as those shown on the frescoes and sealstones are certainly possible and they probably were really performed , but it seems likely that they were carefully choreographed and presented to make them seem as dangerous as possible . |
| 13 | Epithelial cells and fibroblasts differ in their pattern of cytokine gene expression , but it seems likely that fibroblasts may also influence T-cell maturation by contact mediated mechanisms . |
| 14 | Until the proper motion of the pulsar is measured , we can not be sure that this star is its optical counterpart , but it seems likely . |
| 15 | The effects of the seeds that were hopefully planted in the minds of the young students during this period of contact with the world of photography may not become evident for years , but it seems likely that as long as lively and enthusiastic people remain involved in showing young people the variety of their creative options , Britain 's high artistic standards will be zealously maintained for some time to come . |
| 16 | Judicial ideas are no more immutable than any others and it may be that the above account is too pessimistic , but it seems likely that any future extension of strict liability will come only from the legislature . |
| 17 | We do not have direct evidence of other galaxies , but it seems likely that they are composed of particles and that in the universe as a whole , there is an excess of particles over antiparticles of about one particle per 10 8 photons . |
| 18 | To try to predict the state of the market in five years time is not easy but it seems likely that the products will be more integrated , have a degree of artificial intelligence to provide unskilled operators with advice on how to compose the pages and support colour both through local printing systems and via links to professional equipment . |
| 19 | Scott 's education is uncertain but it seems likely that he attended the cathedral school , Canterbury , and afterwards went to Cambridge University . |
| 20 | It is impossible to say to what extent Cézanne was aware of the fact that he was doing this , and in the process breaking the laws of scientific linear perspective , but it seems likely that it was part of a natural desire to emphasize the two-dimensional aspect of the canvas while continuing to explain the nature of objects and also insisting on their solidity by modelling them as fully as possible . |
| 21 | What happens next is not completely clear , but it seems likely that the central regions of the star would collapse to a very dense state , such as a neutron star or black hole . |
| 22 | The whole question of the salaries and allowances of the holders of the highest mevleviyets in the early days of the empire is a vexed one , but it seems likely that to speak of a 500-akce kadilik in the time of Mehmed II is anachronistic . |
| 23 | Rifat Efendi gives Rajab 828/May-June 1425 for Molla Fenari 's appointment not to the Muftilik but to the kadilik of Bursa , but it seems likely that this is a slip of the pen and that he means the Muftilik inasmuch as he says that Molla Fenari went on the pilgrimage in 822/1419 before he became Mufti , an appointment he has not otherwise mentioned . |
| 24 | If the tenant could not exploit the land directly himself , with his own resources and those of his family , he would have to hire labour , but it seems likely that the small farmer was able to make a better profit than the great man , because his lands were not encumbered by a costly and unproductive bureaucracy . |
| 25 | The immense size of the problem is obvious and the cost of maintaining information for the future is large , but it seems likely that the benefits will outweigh the costs . |
| 26 | There are final decisions still to be taken over the introduction of the speed controls but it seems likely humps would be in place by September this year . |
| 27 | But it seems likely that the importance of the plan in creating a ‘ growth climate ’ diminished as the experience of rapid growth meant that business came to expect it anyway . |
| 28 | But it seems likely that influences other than faster scrapping also contributed to the decline in the measured ratio of output to capital . |
| 29 | But it looks likely that we will get a new statutory regime relating to public order offences . |