Example sentences of "likely [to-vb] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reporting a rape remains a strenuous and harrowing experience , however , and it is likely to continue as an underreported offence . |
| 2 | A school with a long tradition of extra curricular activities is likely to continue with an extensive provision even if the activities alter to reflect the expertise of the adults involved . |
| 3 | But the fee is still likely to go to an independent tribunal with Forest apparently asking £3m for their former manager 's son . |
| 4 | Part-time workers were more likely to work for an employer who did not offer an occupational pension scheme . |
| 5 | On the other hand , the number of part-time female employees alone is likely to increase by an estimated 122,000 during this period . |
| 6 | The working-class boy who passes the eleven-plus is likely to come from an elementary or primary , school from which only a few pupils each year penetrate the grammar-school world . |
| 7 | The largest potential upset to the dominance of the matrix printer as a low-cost output device is , however , likely to come from an even more esoteric system . |
| 8 | Not only were the sites of their cancer much more significant compared to their ‘ matched ’ counterparts , but they had also arrived at Bristol when their disease was already worse and therefore more likely to lead to an earlier death . |
| 9 | By the 1690s the northern colonies were spreading north and west in a way that was quite likely to lead to an eventual conflict with New France , though the distance between the English and the French colonies was still too great for a full-scale conflict to be possible . |
| 10 | The level of logical rigour is initially very low and is thus likely to lead to an unsuccessful solution . |
| 11 | Experience suggests , however , that attempting to tackle such problems sympathetically may be more likely to lead to an embittered and protracted dispute ( perhaps because it is seen as an admission that there may be doubt as to whether expulsion is really justified ) than acting decisively and impersonally , refusing to be drawn into arguments with the partner whose expulsion is sought . |
| 12 | And the place is a nut we 're hardly likely to crack with an army , let alone this handful of us . |
| 13 | Hillier has recovered from a virus and is likely to play in an unchanged side at Highbury . |
| 14 | The fact that he is under-age could be a problem but a false beard , grey wig and strap-on paunch should be enough to fool any referee likely to officiate at an Athletico game . |
| 15 | Hence unwanted pregnancy was more likely to occur , the girl was also unlikely to deal positively with this event , and likely to drift into an unsuitable , unsupportive marital relationship or single parenthood , and experience adverse events linked to her unsatisfactory lifestyle . |
| 16 | The value they place on your business is more likely to rest on an independent assessment than on your balance sheet and projections . |
| 17 | The creation of a currency union by encouraging a shift of resources back to the manufacturing sectors is likely to result in an increase of the average productivity growth rate of member countries and , again , in a decline of their respective natural rates of unemployment . |
| 18 | On the other hand , overstimulation , especially in emotionally arousing circumstances , was likely to result in an acute exacerbation of symptoms . |
| 19 | But a static gathering was likely to amount to an obstruction , which could be cleared by the police exercising common law powers . |
| 20 | No mention is ever made of any of the basic principles of homoeopathy and the undergraduate who has heard of the subject is likely to qualify with an inbuilt prejudice against it which will be difficult for him or her to overcome later on . |
| 21 | Firstly , it does seem that consumers are more likely to succeed in an assertion that a clause is unreasonable than a commercial undertaking . |
| 22 | So I think that disaster preparedness and , and , and making yourself safer comes only when you have quite a large surplus , and that means in the developed countries of the world , like the Californian was much , much less likely to die from an earthquake even though he lives in a very vulnerable part of the world , than perhaps erm a rural person in Central America . |
| 23 | Since the matter is important , I wonder if you would take the trouble to write to me again , indicating particularly whether such other arrangements as you will be making are likely to commence at an earlier date than one might otherwise suppose . |
| 24 | When you telephone someone you are more likely to intrude at an inconvenient time and not realize it . |
| 25 | Because the B one use that 's that is planned for within that allocation is a type of B one which is likely to locate on an industrial estate er to use the the term . |
| 26 | While ‘ bird ’ may be recognised as ‘ bird ’ in Orkney or in Australia , an Orcadian is more likely to think of an owl or a gannet and an Australian of a kiwi or some other exotic species . |
| 27 | Are the kinds of medical problems faced by older people more likely to present as an emergency than those posed by younger age groups ? |
| 28 | Burns and Stalker argue that this type of organisation is more likely to survive in an uncertain environment . |
| 29 | Problems are more likely to arise from an increase in the number of small enquiries which generate only a modest income but which impinge on the time of core staff . |
| 30 | Recent court cases where the victims of rape have been seen by judges as contributing to the crime through their ‘ negligence ’ — for example hitch-hiking alone — are not likely to act as an encouragement for other victims to report such offences . |