Example sentences of "[noun] are likely [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the IPC of the Association of British Insurers ( ABI ) in its memorandum dated 25 February 1990 requests that such buy-backs should be approved by a special resolution , and most listed companies with ABI members as shareholders are likely to follow that committee 's guidelines . |
| 2 | But the courts are likely to consider this route inappropriate to family proceedings , said Levy . |
| 3 | ‘ We are also concerned that the North Down and Ards unit has lost half its beds in the last 10 years and recent board proposals are likely to mean another hundred closures . |
| 4 | British experts are likely to dispute these calculations which are based on mathematical models that attempt to extrapolate likely human cancers from laboratory studies . |
| 5 | The increased detail of these codes means that hospital coders are likely to have more difficulty in coding clinical work accurately . |
| 6 | However , there is a tendency in the profession to develop specialist expertise and solicitors in commerce and industry are likely to follow that trend . |
| 7 | As the resources required to meet all demands are likely to exceed those available to society the ethical questions arise in decisions on what can be afforded , in terms of both the total amount of resources to be spent on health care compared with other demands such as education or housing and the distribution of those resources . |
| 8 | Factors associated with homosexuality are likely to explain some of the cases among men . |
| 9 | When any one of them occurs , the teacher and the parent are likely to experience each other 's behaviour as inappropriate and hence strange and uncooperative , and both may leave the encounter bewildered and disappointed . |
| 10 | Only the members of a particular committee are likely to have any proper grasp of a subject ( has anyone outside the Plant Committee actually read its report ? ) while the rest remain blissfully , and dogmatically , ignorant . |
| 11 | Do n't these people realise that dozens of reviewers are likely to spend several hours gazing blankly at the album sleeve as they try to come up with some natty simile to describe the musical contents therein ? |
| 12 | They will encounter and come to understand a wide range of feelings and relationships by entering vicariously the worlds of others , and in consequence are likely to understand more of themselves . |
| 13 | In brief , the available evidence suggests that branch plants are likely to provide some unskilled but few managerial jobs , and are likely to be less stable employers , although the surviving firms may have greater growth potential than their indigenous counterparts . |
| 14 | Many of the resources available for RE are likely to have this effect . |
| 15 | Some farmers are likely to achieve this by converting to organic farming . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , since evolution is a conservative process our brains are likely to contain some components in common with other mammals in so far as they contain features that were characteristic of the common ancestor . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , it would seem sensible to say that , given a set of firms in a perfectly competitive market , some of which ( perhaps because of a more concentrated distribution of shares ) face quite tight constraints on their efficiency , these relatively efficient firms are likely to provide some form of policing function over the others . |
| 18 | But the Canaries are likely to have more success if they throw 29-year-old Crook into the equation . |
| 19 | Now that Mr De Benedetti has been engulfed by Italy 's bribery scandals , things are likely to stay that way . |
| 20 | One particular area in which technical terms are likely to cause some problems is that of grammar : and here we shall follow the terminology and general view of grammar presented in Quirk and Greenbaum 's University Grammar of English . " |
| 21 | It seems that younger people are likely to have more contact with the community ( to go on exchanges , visits etc. ) and have more use of the language ( at school , with peers of the second language community ) . |
| 22 | Rangers are likely to contest any punishment stronger than a one-match ban but it 's not all bad news . |
| 23 | Although this varies a great deal from patient to patient , all post-operative patients are likely to have some degree of anxiety and/or pain . |
| 24 | Research evidence suggests that where anxiety can be relieved pre-operatively , patients are likely to experience less pain after surgery . |
| 25 | Of course it is often possible to distinguish ‘ strong ’ and ‘ weak ’ ministers ; but it must not be forgotten that the comparatively temporary incumbent of the top position of a large organization may be just lucky or unlucky — in arriving when key advisers are likely to agree that exciting innovations are necessary , or conversely in finding that the consolidation of existing policies , or the confronting of unpleasant realities , is more important than the policy changes he or she cherishes . |
| 26 | These factors along with demographic trends and recent events in Eastern Europe are likely to have more influence on labour mobility than the legislation programme to allow for free movement of labour . |
| 27 | Since it seems quite apparent that social decisions are likely to involve many dimensions ( e.g. , multiple expenditure programmes , different parameters of the tax system ) , this is an important result . |
| 28 | This may be due to a lesser degree of familiarity with the larger units which are 1,000 times as large as the smaller units with which the pupils are likely to have more practical experience . |
| 29 | General checklists or weighting systems not based on such an understanding are likely to do more harm than good . |
| 30 | And other royals such as Prince Charles are likely to cancel any leisure plans they had while the family crisis summit goes ahead . |