Example sentences of "likely [verb] been [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is just as likely to have been a Turkish Cypriot farmer moving too far south . |
| 2 | And it would balance her table , thought Mair , although that was hardly likely to have been a consideration . |
| 3 | It appears that severity of illness or disability is likely to have been a critical variable , and in cases of severe disability , health would have been an overriding consideration . |
| 4 | Indeed in the circumstances in which he found the community there is likely to have been a good deal of disorder . |
| 5 | Akrotiri was built in about 1550 BC ( Late Minoan IA ) and is likely to have been a Minoan foundation . |
| 6 | The erection of a large shrine as an imposing architectural feature is not unusual in the Roman world , although the only other example in Britain appears to be the extraordinary octagonal structure at Lufton , identified as a ‘ cold plunge ’ but more likely to have been a shrine associated with a water cult . |
| 7 | Family restriction , by cutting down on labour costs , accelerated middle-class living standards , and this seems likely to have been a major contributory factor to decisions to limit family size . |
| 8 | When she returned to Jedburgh that evening she was in great pain from what is likely to have been a haemorrhage , of which she had suffered several since her son 's birth . |
| 9 | Abimelech , the Philistine king ( 26:1 ) : the name is probably a family or throne-name , this is therefore likely to have been a later king than the one Abraham encountered ( 20–21 ) . |
| 10 | Well yes I mean it 's it 's it 's more likely to have been a muscle than anything else , with pain that comes and goes . |
| 11 | Deprived after Nechtansmere of the land and tribute from the Picts and Irish which probably underlay such power , Northumbria is likely to have been a poorer as well as a less dominant kingdom . |
| 12 | Schools did lose staff but it seems more likely to have been a reflection of the generally low level of teachers ' pay at a time of full employment . |
| 13 | The hand-loom weaver on the eve of his long decline was much more likely to have been a Methodist than was the mule spinner of the new generation proletariat . |
| 14 | Nor is this likely to have been a novel feature of the tenth and eleventh centuries , whose rulers were building on traditions of public authority already old . |
| 15 | We can assume that Jacques not only played the oboe but was also likely to have been a woodwind maker , as was his brother , Jean , who is noted in the Livre commode ( 1692 ) as being among the most highly regarded master makers of woodwinds . |
| 16 | The laboratory 's opinion , though , is that the incident was more likely to have been an attempt to make the researchers there look a bit silly . |
| 17 | But the massive post-election bomb in London is likely to have been an each-way bet planned well in advance . |
| 18 | As we have said before ; horses high in aggression are more likely to have been the survivors during the processes of evolution . |
| 19 | This is likely to have been the lower valve , and fossils are sometimes found in ‘ life position ’ , which confirms this . |
| 20 | This is likely to have been the case with the final dinosaur group evolving from the small types such as Psittacosaurus , or the parrot-type reptiles such as the heavily built quadruped ceratopsians . |
| 21 | The major problems you will have encountered in preparing the consolidated profit and loss account are likely to have been the calculation of the unrealised profit provisions and the minority interest . |
| 22 | In the two volunteers reported to have HLA-B35 this octamer is likely to have been the minimal epitope . |
| 23 | It seems that new recruits were likely to have been the spies of political opponents or officers of the Special Branch . |
| 24 | He went into the London Clinic for three weeks and after X-rays , blood tests and cardiographic treatment it was discovered that the disorder had no organic origin — its source was essentially a nervous one and seemed likely to have been the result of over-exertion and worry . |
| 25 | Dornford Lane is much more likely to have been the former main road into Woodstock from Banbury which developed after 1154–74 , when Woodstock was founded as a royal town by Henry II . |
| 26 | The very good performance of division reported in some cases ( Lum , Yuen and Dodd , Severance and Duhne ) , and relatively poor performance in others ( Kaimann ) , is likely to have been the result of few or many clashes of this kind . |
| 27 | The occasion of Wulfhere 's intervention in Surrey is likely to have been the death of King Ecgberht , which appears to have been followed by an interregnum or at least a contested succession . |
| 28 | Although the combination of recession and high interest rates is likely to have been the main cause of this rise in defaults , the much more moderate increase in company failures and mortgage arrears which accompanied the more severe downturn and higher interest rates of 1980–81 period suggests that other factors may also have been important . |
| 29 | In the context of the current study the relevant distractor items are likely to have been the other exemplars of a particular junction . |
| 30 | If the criminal was the same in each case , was not the motive likely to have been the same ? |