Example sentences of "likely [to-vb] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The date was subsequently brought forward to Feb. 27 after the National Moon Sighting Committee advised the election commission that a Moslem holiday was likely to fall on March 2 . |
| 2 | COPIES of a register which is aimed at maintaining hygiene standards are likely to go on sale . |
| 3 | Because they are more likely to default on repayments , they would have to pay higher rates of interest than older married couples with small families . |
| 4 | Four season bags are for all-year use and five season bags are designed for the kind of extreme cold temperatures you 're likely to find on winter expeditions . |
| 5 | The biographer , therefore , is likely to work on people of some fame , whatever their spheres of activity may be , and so the biography is more likely to be about the famous ( or notorious ) person , the outstanding success or the eye-catching , unusual personality . |
| 6 | Today 's meeting of the TUC-unions — NUPE , Cohse , TGWU , GMB , and Nalgo — is likely to concentrate on efforts to sustain support for the action through the Christmas period . |
| 7 | Now they are likely to concentrate on April 's electoral reform referendum and the prospect of general elections under new rules in October . |
| 8 | Bear in mind that see it but it 's more likely to pass on energy units , because it 's the stronger , you know . |
| 9 | By extension , Mrs Thatcher 's quick endorsement is likely to backfire on Britain 's standing in Moscow . |
| 10 | Friends say Bronson , 71 , and 31-year-old Kim Weeks are likely to wed on Bronson 's ranch in Vermont next spring . |
| 11 | further , the object-oriented approach is likely to impact on data modelling , so that some database applications may be developed through object modelling ( rather than entity-relationship modelling and relational modelling ) mapped to object-oriented databases ( rather than relational databases ) . |
| 12 | They might be considered likely to feed on flowers at a time , such as the dry season , when there is a scarcity of fruit . |
| 13 | The impending deals , advisers believe , are most likely to focus on sales of peripheral businesses and expansion of core operations . |
| 14 | The main reason why the US market is so much more competitive appears to be tradition : American consumers are accustomed to hunting out bargains and buying on price , whereas Europeans are more likely to buy on brand name . |
| 15 | An innovator in financial areas , Citibank for example , is not likely to embark on innovations in health care . |
| 16 | A spokesman for Balding said : ‘ The governor is looking at both races though he is still more likely to run on Saturday . ’ |
| 17 | On the other hand , without the use of a simulation model it is difficult to visualize the effect that changes in fertility or in mortality are likely to have on trends over the next few decades . |
| 18 | In order to understand the effect that financial delegation is likely to have on schools , in terms of school management and the quality of teaching and learning in the classroom , it is helpful to look briefly at what has already happened elsewhere . |
| 19 | Concert halls , arts centres or community centres , if sympathetically designed , are probably the most appropriate , but these are likely to depend on grants or donations , and most towns will not require more than one of any one type . |
| 20 | Assuming that research is likely to depend on access to a multiplicity of sources and databases , users will need such expert advice . |
| 21 | Two heating mats would be equally good ( and probably less likely to fail on balance ) . |
| 22 | A further cut in base rates to 6% is now likely to stay on ice till next year . |
| 23 | However , it has been judicially observed that the objection to a rent representing a percentage of the tenant 's turnover is that , if the price of a commodity rises at a faster rate than the cost of living , pressure is likely to develop on dealers in that commodity to reduce their margin of profit or rate of commission ( Naylor v Uttoxeter UDC ( 1974 ) 231 EG 619 per Brightman J ) . |
| 24 | They are likely to rely on head ( d ) below . |
| 25 | An international company is likely to rely on agents to sell its products to the country 's markets . |
| 26 | However , small businesses also need to forecast and they are more likely to rely on judgement alone . |
| 27 | One retail analyst said he believed it would make customers more likely to spend on food and gifts . |
| 28 | It is true that we live in an age when people are increasingly more likely to act on intuition , but many are still able to calculate when two and two add up to five . |
| 29 | Gill joined Darlington from Middlesborough and another former Ayresome Park player , Alan Walsh , is thinking over a move to City and is likely to sign on Monday . |