Example sentences of "as likely [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those currencies which currently belong to the exchange rate mechanism and are not perceived by the markets as likely to join at least the first echelon of a single currency may come under pressure in the market . |
| 2 | There are those who claim that canvassing the votes of the electorate is a waste of time : that they are at least as likely to vote for you if you leave them alone as they are if you go round and bother them at night . |
| 3 | On the basis of the present issue of statements this would mean that about two per cent of the child population are judged as likely to fall outside the provision of the 1988 Act . |
| 4 | The use of labour exchanges to encourage vocational guidance and industrial training would , he argued , have three consequences : it would reduce risks of individual ‘ maladjustment ’ , which often meant waste of abilities and even unemployment ; it would adjust the flow of labour between trades ; and it would discourage ‘ blind-alley ’ occupations , which he saw as not only demoralizing , but also as likely to lead to ‘ a fresh point of stress in industry — the transition to a new occupation at manhood ’ . |
| 5 | This kind of administrative structure may be regarded as likely to lead to the implementation of policies that are at variance with those favoured by elected local councils . |
| 6 | The separation of these various powers between three officers has been criticised as likely to lead to a confusion of managerial authority ( Leach 1989:118 ) , and certainly it represents a move away from the chief executive model advocated in the Bains Report . |
| 7 | They will be affected for the rest of their lives by the kind of diet which is condemned by nutritionists all over the world as likely to lead to a whole variety of illnesses in later life . |
| 8 | On May 28 in a speech to the UNIP national council , Kaunda again criticized the multiparty system as likely to lead to " tribal conflicts " , but promised that there would be a free vote in the nationwide referendum which he proposed should be held on the issue [ see p. 37523 ] . |
| 9 | A previous review recommended a cut in Strathclyde 's parliamentary entitlement from by one seat to 32 , and the subsequent publication of detailed proposals for Strathclyde indicated plans to reduce the number of parliamentary constituencies in Glasgow by one — a move widely interpreted as likely to lead to the loss of Labour seats . |
| 10 | Since Yugoslav support for the Soviet navy is based less on coordination in security policy than on commercial interest it is not regarded by Belgrade as likely to lead towards a form of alignment with Moscow . |
| 11 | But , the thing is that they their attitude towards the dominant group and their behaviour towards the dominant group is going to be erm influenced by how perceive their like the treatment , so they 're quite prepared to change their er erm the story they present as it was , about themselves to outsiders , depending on how they see the outsiders erm as likely to react towards them . |
| 12 | Because the development officers had prepared the ground well , the Home Support Project was known to others and was universally welcomed as likely to add to ( and not compete with ) other services . |
| 13 | The move was seen as likely to correspond with the introduction of a currency union between the two countries . |
| 14 | 11.1 During the continuance of this Agreement the Proprietor shall not without the consent in writing of the Publisher prepare or edit for any other publisher any work that is an expansion abridgement or revision of the Work or of any part of it or publish or cause to be published any work on the same subject which may reasonably be regarded as likely to conflict with the sale of the Work . |
| 15 | 4 DURING THE CONTINUANCE of the Publishing Agreement , neither of the Authors shall without the consent in writing of the Publisher prepare or edit for any other publisher any work that is an expansion , abridgement or revision of the Work or of part of it ; or publish or cause to be published any work on the same subject which may reasonably be regarded as likely to conflict with the sale of the Work . |
| 16 | 11.1 During the continuance of this Agreement the Company shall not without the consent in writing of the Publisher prepare or edit for any other publisher any work that is an expansion abridgement or revision of the Work or of any part of it or publish or cause to be published any work on the same subject which may reasonably be regarded as likely to conflict with the sale of the Work . |