Example sentences of "likely [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as I say as I say I do n't ken how long it had been there but that see that likely about the same time as the as the mill was heightened and er the kiln would 've been putting on . |
| 2 | Real choice is most likely for a small minority of shoppers who tend to be better educated and richer than average . |
| 3 | Also , it is likely that although I will get custody of my daughter , he will also be given leave to see her every week , and likely for a longer period than he sees her now . |
| 4 | Yet Mr Salinas 's government will have to rely on more than contacts ; tight money and high real interest rates are likely for the predictable future . |
| 5 | Soviet success in turning secrecy into a prime purpose of government is likely for the foreseeable future to deprive the West of any definitive understanding of these matters , and leave even knowledgeable émigrés in dispute about them . |
| 6 | It seems at times to dwell excessively and inaccurately on the ineffectiveness of the English resistance ( see below ) , and is likely for the 990s at least to be at best a partial record . |
| 7 | This would seem the more likely of the two stories . |
| 8 | ‘ I think Jack Butler 's the most likely of the two . |
| 9 | Only that he was the more likely of the two . |
| 10 | The results showed that Amasha was the least likely of the four to be treated with LGS and that Daeria , generally regarded as the most dangerous of the four , was the most likely reason for LGS usage . |
| 11 | I think that the most likely of the four possibilities was that Stalin planned the murder with Nikolaev to commit it for him . |
| 12 | Given the strength of American college golf , with its state subsidies in the form of golf scholarships , the Walker Cup has always looked the least likely of the three team competitions to be won by Great Britain and Ireland . |
| 13 | There were modest alternatives available to an antislavery readership but they either propounded the outlook of a minority tendency as did the Anti-Slavery Advocate , edited by the Irish Garrisonian Richard Webb in the 1850s , or had a predominantly local circulation as was likely with the short-lived Anti-Slavery Watchman of Manchester produced by the Garrisonian group around George Thompson and his son-in-law F. W. Chesson , or propounded a particular remedy for slavery in the case of the Quaker Richardson family in Newcastle through the Slave 's stress on the free produce movement . |
| 14 | We now know that during the Saturday daylight raids on London , a chiefs-of-staff meeting took urgent action on deciding that invasion was likely within a few hours ; they had the code word ‘ Cromwell ’ flashed from the War Room to military units at 20.07 hours that evening ( which presumably led to the flap at my unit ; the station commander was away that weekend , and the acting CO in charge ) . |
| 15 | Rot , either in the glue or the wood or both , was only too likely within a few months . |
| 16 | Such virtual reality systems are already in existence today and foreshadow far more powerful developments likely within a few years . |
| 17 | The committee was told a Kincardine Bridge replacement was likely within the next few years , but was a separate issue and all transport organisations plus the Scottish Office agreed a new crossing of the Forth near the existing bridge was essential . |
| 18 | And thirdly , when buying out looked more likely from the 1960's onwards , as members increasingly voiced dissatisfaction at the Club 's management , some existing bondholders played hard to get , clearly reluctant in several instances and for reasons unrecorded , to give us what it had never been intended should be a permanent arrangement or the basis of an elite . |
| 19 | However , it seems likely from the preliminary indications that it would not be possible to complete the work until 1994 . |
| 20 | WHY are you less likely to get caught speeding in a black car and most likely in a red one ? |
| 21 | Avoiding everybody in the staffroom is likely in the long term to be a bad strategy because its result is isolation . |
| 22 | For example , as we noted , the definition of pragmatics as concerned with encoded aspects of context may be less restrictive than it seems at first sight ; for if in general ( a ) principles of language usage have as corollaries principles of interpretation , and ( b ) principles of language usage are likely in the long run to impinge on grammar ( and some empirical support can be found for both propositions ) , then theories about pragmatic aspects of meaning will be closely related to theories about the grammaticalization of aspects of context . |
| 23 | Community involvement is obviously more likely in the latter case , but it is equally vital for large scale systems . |
| 24 | They were likely in the early days to come from families connected with the trade , but as time went on , recruitment was wider . |
| 25 | But British Rail failed to obtain an interim injunction against the NUR , the court holding that the union was likely in the highest degree to be able to show that their , ballot was valid . |
| 26 | but you 're , you 're been described as a , as a , as likely in the ordinary course of things to have a benign effect would it ? |
| 27 | Furthermore , the large magnetic fields likely in the Galactic Centre clouds would have to diffuse out before the clouds could collapse . |
| 28 | Flowering may occur first in summer , but is more likely in the second one ; if flowers removed before seed set , plant will continue to live . |
| 29 | Yet Wednesday 's decision by Egypt — in close consultation with the PLO — to accept a US mediation plan means that an Israeli-Palestinian meeting is now likely in the New Year . |
| 30 | Yet Wednesday 's decision by Egypt — in close consultation with the PLO — to accept a US mediation plan means that an Israeli-Palestinian meeting is now likely in the New Year . |