Example sentences of "likely [to-vb] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are n't likely to wear the same garment for six years , as Granny might do ! |
| 2 | EC grain traders say consumption is unlikely to rise , and the amount sold on the export market is also likely to remain the same . |
| 3 | The management team is also likely to remain the same . |
| 4 | The DAF workers are less likely to attract the same sort of gritty sympathy that the miners have done . |
| 5 | With a bravura performance from Sir John Gielgud in a free adaptation of Shakespeare 's ‘ The Tempest ’ , ‘ Prospero 's Books ’ seems most likely to meet the former . |
| 6 | Consequently , any measure which seeks to strengthen central influence on the curriculum and to weaken teachers ' autonomy in curriculum matters is still likely to evince the same suspicion and hostility with which teachers responded to ‘ payment by results ’ . |
| 7 | The difficulty is that we are quite likely to pick the same herd twice and if that were to happen we would have to sample it twice . |
| 8 | Parents who themselves behave in a responsible way towards their children , making it a habit to keep them informed of their whereabouts and accounting for their own actions , are more likely to receive the same consideration in return . |
| 9 | For example , it is a recognized fact that a child who has been regularly beaten by one or both of his parents is extremely likely to inflict the same violence on his own children . |
| 10 | As , for school-leavers at least , the entry qualifications for the degree-level course and for the Dip.HE are the same , then they are very likely to prefer the former . |
| 11 | First , on average , a better-educated person is likely to do the same job better than one who is less educated . |
| 12 | With their experienced hooker David Watkinson still struggling for fitness , Dewsbury are likely to retain the same side as Sunday . |
| 13 | Industry sources say the company is likely to adopt the same marketing strategy as in the US , where its range of domestic batteries are targeted predominantly at women . |
| 14 | He has also shown that a child is likely to share the same birth months as other relatives . |
| 15 | It is in the field of assessment that the new arrangements are likely to pose the most difficulties for teachers and distract them from their first task of finding their way into ‘ the very queer and tortuous passages of children 's minds ’ . |
| 16 | Brian Horton 's likely to name the same side that beat Portsmouth last week . |
| 17 | Keegan is likely to name the same starting eleven which beat Portsmouth at home last week , although he wo n't confirm his team until lunchtime today . |
| 18 | It is worth reiterating that this yearning to return is a potent mirror image of Zionist belief and aspiration earlier in the century , and is likely to have the same tenacity . |
| 19 | In bottle-wrack , on the other hand , all the cells within a plant are likely to have the same genes , because only very recent mutations could divide them . |
| 20 | If someone has suffered severe hearing loss for many years and suddenly is able to hear well through an aid , he is likely to have the same experience of surprise . |
| 21 | Thame is certainly a planned town , founded by the Bishops of Lincoln in 1219–21 , and Marlborough is likely to have the same origin . |
| 22 | His preferences can be illustrated by means of a set of indifference curves which are likely to have the same shape as those depicted in Chapter 4 for the case of an individual choosing between two goods . |
| 23 | The individual that produces the most clear-cut signal is most likely to have the most offspring . |
| 24 | He would hardly be likely to say the same thing about Kylie . |
| 25 | The government review is likely to follow the same path . |
| 26 | All non-productive wood must be cut out , and the skill lies in deciding which of the many buds are wood buds and which are fruit buds , and then in deciding which of the wood buds are likely to produce the most fruit buds . |
| 27 | But lack of evidence , including close scrutiny of a video , is likely to bring the same ‘ not proven ’ verdict that followed the Wimbledon game . |
| 28 | We 're not likely to make the same mistakes again . |