Example sentences of "likely that [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Although it is likely that future gains will be more modest , profitability will be robust , ’ it said , adding that the industry can also expect to benefit from growing demand , especially from canny corporate customers , and from balanced regulation — public service commissions are increasingly approving alternative regulatory plans which permit the companies to boost earnings above a targeted level , provided they improve efficiency and share earnings gains with their subscribers . |
| 2 | However , without the lucky discovery of the Rosetta Stone , it is likely that Egyptian hieroglyphics would still be a mystery to us . |
| 3 | And it is likely that poor countries have bigger ‘ informal ’ economies than do rich ones . |
| 4 | But while details of the police operation are being kept under wraps , it is thought likely that armed officers will be on standby . |
| 5 | When it came to structuring the District Health Authorities in the form which existed until 1990 , the Department of Health stipulated that ‘ it is important to make appointments only where it is likely that prospective members will have the health and vigour to make an effective contribution throughout their term of office . |
| 6 | It is likely that outside consultants will be employed by the Health and Safety Executive . |
| 7 | All four of the properties described above make it less likely that central banks would ever have to defend parities that the markets had come to regard as indefensible . |
| 8 | If the present government 's policies continue , it is likely that private companies will run these operations . |
| 9 | If some special mechanism such as that implicated in the ‘ Now Print ! ’ theory ( Brown and Kulik , 1977 ; Livingston , 1967a 1967b ) were operating in cases of flashbulb memories it is likely that similar findings would have been observed in the eyewitness testimony literature . |
| 10 | Nevertheless it seems likely that similar factors will in fact be taken into account by the courts . |
| 11 | In view of the similarity of atherogenesis in the diabetic and non-diabetic ( Strandness et al , 1964 ; Robertson & Strong , 1968 ) it is likely that similar relationships apply in diabetic subjects , although the evidence that this is true is not so strong . |
| 12 | Since the Soviet Union had no forces in the region , or only token forces in the 1950s and 1960s it is likely that Soviet leaders did not expect the Western allies to take these early proposals altogether seriously . |
| 13 | It is likely that Soviet leaders regarded the EEC plan as a frustrating obstacle to negotiations on their own terms . |
| 14 | It is likely that general SVQs will be developed in a number of these areas for implementation in 1993 . |
| 15 | It is likely that small areas of birch-hazel scrub were once more widespread in sheltered areas in Lewis prior to 4000 B.P. , and that woodland of birch , oak , hazel , elm , and alder formerly occurred in S. Uist . |
| 16 | More generally , such self-generated and complex spatial structures may be relevant to the dynamics of a wide variety of spatially extended systems : Turing models , 2-state Ising models , and possibly pre-biotic evolution ( where it seems increasingly likely that chemical reactions took place on surfaces , rather than in solutions ) . |
| 17 | It is also likely that other effects , in particular the altered -system and its effect on base stacking , contribute to d 3C A induced destabilisation . |
| 18 | It is likely that other forms of conversation can be analysed in the same way , though this is considerably more difficult . |
| 19 | If there is undetected contamination in the Esk , then it seems likely that other areas of the west coast are also contaminated without showing up in official statistics , Mr Green says . |
| 20 | It is more likely that other factors , as yet unrecognised , are important . |
| 21 | However , it is also likely that other factors , as yet unrecognised , are important . |
| 22 | In practice , the issues may never be put to the test because it is very likely that other parties would succeed in preventing referenda , but it is still enough of a departure for some evangelical DUP activists to have been initially opposed to the change . |
| 23 | These are stray survivals , but it is likely that other forfeitures were authorized in the same way . |
| 24 | These are stray survivals , but it is likely that other forfeitures were authorized in the same way . |
| 25 | This is first because of the individual differences in stylistic competence already noted ; secondly because our sense of style is essentially vague and indeterminate , not reducible to quantities ; and thirdly because it is likely that certain deviances ( below a certain level of significance ) do not reach the threshold of response , even for the most experienced , alert , and sensitive reader . |
| 26 | It is likely that certain crimes have increased not because people have become more dishonest but because it has become easier to commit such crimes . |
| 27 | However , the position is not as simple as this because , if the merger had taken place , rationalisation and restructuring would have happened anyway and it is likely that certain plants in any combined GM/Leyland group would have closed . |
| 28 | However , it is likely that fixed costs would increase , but we have no available information to assess this possible option . |
| 29 | We consider it more likely that increased numbers of non-γ-interferon producing lymphocytes infiltrate the mucosa in coeliac disease . |
| 30 | Without information about specific incidents it is not possible to develop a methodical analysis , nor is it likely that effective strategies for prevention will be found . |