Example sentences of "likely [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With amateurs there 's no point in paying , they 're likely to kill the victim off anyway , out of fear . |
| 2 | These Regulations , which are now in force , are made under s 4(2) ( c ) of the 1992 Act and set out names which are likely to mislead the public in terms of the status of the charity . |
| 3 | This would be likely to include the tracking through services and follow-up of groups of clients , through detailed description and in depth interviewing of professionals , clients , and carers , and would be designed to get closer to measures of quality of care and of outcome . |
| 4 | The focus will be on the early stages of the police investigation of offences , and is likely to include the exercise of powers to stop and search suspected persons , the search of premises and seizure of property , and the detention of suspects in police custody . |
| 5 | His main growth areas … are likely to include the improvement and extension of existing houses , the modernising and planned maintenance of commercial , industrial and other buildings , and the need to improve the thermal insulation of almost all buildings … . ’ |
| 6 | These are likely to include the department managers and possibly people who will use the system when it is implemented . |
| 7 | On the basis of the MAFF-DoE memo this would seem likely to include the farming and fertiliser industries , and would give the Ministry of Agriculture almost total control over the policy . |
| 8 | A new business plan is expected this week and it is likely to include the sale of leading players , among them Gavin Peacock , who has attracted interest from Aston Villa and Middlesbrough , as well as a tight budget for team building . |
| 9 | ‘ I could be quite wrong here , but amongst the French soldiers likely to attend the opera is one of exalted rank , married to an ageing but unfaithful wife , and with an eye for a pretty woman … ’ |
| 10 | In the second category , general civil cases , parties should be able to choose their own lawyers because the interests of justice would be inherently less likely to fetter the client 's right of choice . |
| 11 | In broad terms , our membership of the European Economic Community was likely to quicken the pace of technical and economic change in the industry , thereby causing a further contraction of the labour force and a further substitution of capital for labour , though at a slower rate than in the previous decade . |
| 12 | The third generation version , which has just gone on sale in Britain , looks likely to continue the success story . |
| 13 | The employee is likely to sue the contractor in tort for negligence , and the customer as his employer for failing to provide safe working conditions . |
| 14 | Whereupon it was resolved : ‘ That the Society will consult the good of the Community in general and of the limits of the Society in particular , by encouraging such means as are likely to promote the study of farriery on rational scientific principles . |
| 15 | That it be referred to the same Meeting to open a voluntary subscription to forward such means as may be thought most likely to promote the study of scientific Farriery … ’ . |
| 16 | I am more likely to hit the ball to the left , so I just allow for this to happen and I do n't have to make any swing changes . |
| 17 | I suppose your generalisation of ‘ poor ’ golfers likely to hit the ball anywhere does include me . |
| 18 | REGIONAL health trends uncovered in the survey show that men are least likely to hit the bottle in East Anglia , which has the lowest proportion of heavy drinkers . |
| 19 | Work on DCE is beginning immediately , but DME is not likely to hit the market in any form for another two years . |
| 20 | It will , however , likely be years before we see hide or hair of it — the company 's programming centre in Boca Raton , Florida , indicates that version 2.1 will be the next implementation of OS/2 , and even that is n't likely to hit the market until at least spring of next year . |
| 21 | If egg and sperm meet at the right time , one of the spermatozoa is likely to penetrate the egg . |
| 22 | 7.1 Warranty re-convictions The Tenant warrants that prior to the execution of this Lease [ it ] has disclosed to the Landlord in writing any conviction judgment or finding of any court or tribunal relating to the Tenant ( or any director or other officer or major shareholder of the Tenant ) of such a nature as to be likely to affect the decision of any insurer or underwriter to grant or to continue insurance of any of the Insured Risks The landlord may wish to include this in order to protect its position resulting from insurance contracts being uberrimae fidei , with the resultant obligation to disclose to the insurers material facts within its actual or presumed knowledge . |
| 23 | 7.7.6 to give notice to the Landlord immediately upon the happening of any event which might affect any insurance policy on or relating to the Premises or upon the happening of any event against which the Landlord may have insured under this Lease The following amendment should be considered : … immediately upon becoming aware of the happening of any event … 7.7.7 immediately to inform the Landlord in writing of any conviction judgment or finding of any court or tribunal relating to the Tenant ( or any director other officer or major shareholder of the Tenant ) of such a nature as to be likely to affect the decision of any insurer or underwriter to grant or to continue any such insurance The requirement to notify the landlord in respect of convictions should be deleted for the reason stated above . |
| 24 | ‘ Unpublished price sensitive information ’ is information which relates to specific matters relating to or of concern ( directly or indirectly ) to that company , that is to say it is not of a general nature relating to or of concern to that company and is not generally known to those persons who are accustomed or would be likely to deal in those securities but which if it were generally known to them would be likely to affect the price of those securities . |
| 25 | But tampering with lifetime employment policies , and pushing unemployment upwards , is likely to affect the morale of a workforce that has always been Japan 's most valuable asset . |
| 26 | This borrowing is likely to affect the money supply . |
| 27 | ‘ I think I 've a perfect right to ask , certainly when an employee 's lifestyle is likely to affect the company , ’ he finished pompously . |
| 28 | How is the working of the party system likely to affect the shape of policy decisions ? |
| 29 | In the case of an underlease the subtenant should always require right of the superior lease or leases to satisfy itself that there are no restrictions likely to affect the subtenant 's proposed use of the premises . |
| 30 | LORD ATKIN : The ordinary blackmailer normally threatens to do what he has a perfect right to do-namely , communicate some compromising conduct to a person whose knowledge is likely to affect the person threatened . |