Example sentences of "likely [to-vb] as [art] " 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 | Looking ahead , over the next decade gas demand is likely to fall as a result of supply shortfall , despite the current supply surplus . |
| 3 | On the radio link Richie reported that he had scored a net 69 , which was likely to stand as the best score of the day . |
| 4 | Bryan Robson will start his first Premier League game for United with Darren Ferguson dropping out and Lee Sharpe likely to appear as a sub . |
| 5 | Political forces and corporate bodies may be more or less able to calculate the likely effects , ceteris paribus , of the implementation of their policies and demands , and the conservation/transformation effect is anyway likely to appear as the ‘ resultant vector ’ of non-coherent activities on the part of a whole range of such forces and bodies ( although , for instance , dominant positions within a government may give one political force more leverage than others ) . |
| 6 | In other words they are being totally unfair in that process and as a result of this more people are likely to suffer as a result of fire Council and savings which are clearly er is proposed er that is Conservative review that we should not be using new money or money within the environment budget which is better stretched for all the other services , to find that other fire fighters as much as we agree they are needed when clearly there is another pot of money which was available for this service and which the other two groups have decided they will take |
| 7 | Borders businesses are also likely to benefit as a 17 per cent reduction in water bills is planned . |
| 8 | The results are likely to come as a surprise presenting many untapped market opportunities and will certainly dispel complacency . |
| 9 | The market often anticipates interest changes likely to come as a result of changes in economic indicators such as the inflation rate or the exchange rate . |
| 10 | Ironically the amount eventually charged is still likely to come as a nasty shock for a client who has not yet confronted the financial realities of litigation . |
| 11 | What might be seen to be a hurdle is that the ‘ likely adverse effects on the animals concerned ’ will be weighed against ‘ the benefit likely to accrue as a result of the programme ’ ( 5.4 ) . |
| 12 | It is rather that the idea and ideal is always likely to function as a corrective to complacency rather than as a prop to It . |
| 13 | There is no national group comparable to East Germany 's New Forum waiting in the wings or person , with or without charisma , who seems likely to emerge as a de facto leader in the way that Lech Walesa emerged in Poland or Vaclav Havel did in Czechoslovakia . |
| 14 | And the number is not likely to reduce as the scope of spreads and as we 're offered new technologies , software technologies by vendors . |
| 15 | Enthusiasm can spur one on to cram the border full of as many herbs as possible , but some of them are likely to die as a result , and others will be tall and weedy ; it is far better to plant with spaces between them to start with , allowing them room to grow to their full size so that their growth habit and leaf value can be made the most of in the context of the overall design . |
| 16 | But Whitaker 's luck changed in the four rider Horsemaster final when he again looked likely to finish as a runner-up . |
| 17 | Are the kinds of medical problems faced by older people more likely to present as an emergency than those posed by younger age groups ? |
| 18 | Among other efforts , the hotel recycles paper , using proceeds to plant an orchard containing fast disappearing traditional varieties of apple , sends candles and soaps to charities operating in developing countries , recycles bottle and donates proceeds to charity , is researching ways of recycling kitchen waste , has minimised the environmental impact of its golf course , has bought energy-saving technology such as timer switches and has discovered that 70 per cent of its guests would be more likely to return as a result of its environmental practices . |
| 19 | Will the Minister now tell the House how many local magistrates courts he estimates are likely to close as a result of the Government 's new funding policy ? |
| 20 | Some schools are likely to close as a result of a decision by teachers to strike in protest at plans to shed a hundred and fifty jobs in Gloucestershire . |
| 21 | This percentage is likely to decrease as a result of improvements in cable systems . |
| 22 | With the advent of the poll tax and higher interest rates , the squeeze on the customer 's pocket seems likely to act as a curb on the current trend towards trading-up to more expensive , quality wines . |
| 23 | The world of neural networks and pattern recognition is likely to act as a major guide . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Law and order departs from the Justice Model markedly in its attitude to due process : if anything it disap-proves of excessive procedural safeguards on the grounds that they are likely to act as an obstacle to ensuring offenders receive their just deserts . |
| 26 | Chapter 9 considers who can act as an expert : as the answer is anyone whom the parties appoint , safeguards are built into the expert clause to provide that a suitably qualified person is likely to act as the expert . |
| 27 | However , if age specific rates of disability remain constant , average levels of disability are likely to rise as a larger proportion of the elderly population reaches extreme old age . |
| 28 | Organizations are arenas within which some things will tend to hang together and be adopted by power-players as a bundle , while other forms of combination may be far less likely to occur as a coherent package , perhaps because they are less coherent or because the alliance which could make them so lacks a position in the field of power to be able to constitute the necessity of its choices . |