Example sentences of "[noun] likely [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The average £350 package tour would jump by 10 per cent , with more exotic trips likely to incur larger increases , Sidney Perez told the conference . |
| 2 | Goldwater 's enemies presented the Senator as a harsh , uncompromising ideologue , a threatening figure likely to abolish social security and to get the United States involved in a nuclear war . |
| 3 | This may need to be supported by actual action likely to undermine public confidence in the exchange . |
| 4 | To do this the Commission must have regard to barriers to entry likely to deter new market entrants and to whether a result of the merger is likely to be a significant raising of those barriers . |
| 5 | To reduce them , we are improving our capital efficiency ( the return on every dollar invested ) , increasing our recovery from existing fields and focusing our exploration expenditure more sharply on areas likely to yield substantial volumes of hydrocarbons at low cost . |
| 6 | a right to be informed and consulted about any management proposal likely to have serious consequences for the interests of employees . |
| 7 | Close study of applications and their results , including objections , enable the developer to build up a comprehensive survey of the current attitudes of the local planning authority to development proposals , and those sites likely to receive favourable consideration . |
| 8 | Mr. Malone pointed to the number of countries likely to gain nuclear arms in the next ten years , and reminded the audience that there were still 27,000 nuclear warheads distributed around the remnants of the Soviet Union . |
| 9 | Management would also be obliged to consult employees ' representatives on matters likely to have serious consequences for their interests , with a view to attempting to reach agreement . |
| 10 | About £15 million of a total Partnership expenditure of £123 million was spent on projects likely to benefit ethnic minorities . |
| 11 | In fact , experience so far suggests that MDC 's approach to urban regeneration has been less cavalier than LDDC 's , reflecting its concern to minimise the social costs of development to its residents and to avoid projects likely to prejudice other areas of the city . |
| 12 | Programmes likely to produce such action ought , rather , to be spotted within the BBC in advance and either adjusted suitably or else supported by the Governors in such a way that the politicians would be quietly told , in effect , that if they wished to object they risked on this occasion a larger row than they might want . |
| 13 | Are there significant areas of difficulty likely to require active involvement of a social worker with an individual or a family as in secondary care ? |
| 14 | DTI has sought to encourage technology transfer where the market is weakest , particularly in links between industry and academia , the access of small firms to sources of technology , and the spread of new technologies likely to have pervasive applications . |
| 15 | With weather conditions on the appointed day predicted to be very severe — including gales likely to cause structural damage to buildings — only three of the six teams managed to participate . |
| 16 | Senior officials representing the five permanent members of the UN Security Council agreed in London on Oct. 17-18 to avoid selling weapons likely to worsen international conflict and to exchange information on conventional weapons sales to the Middle East [ see also pp. 38365-66 ] . |
| 17 | In the light of these considerations their Lordships can not help viewing a statutory provision which criminalises statements likely to undermine public confidence in the conduct of public affairs with the utmost suspicion . |
| 18 | The social worker is not usually involved in the early stages following the patient 's stroke , but may be called in later if the patient is fairly severely disabled , or is an old person likely to need long-term support at home . |
| 19 | A low response rate is serious particularly if there is reason to suspect that persons likely to give particular kinds of answers might be less or more likely to respond than others . |
| 20 | It is difficult to pinpoint any one category of persons likely to commit this offence as a variety of motives will be involved . |
| 21 | These will be properties likely to attract keen bidding in a buoyant property market , for instance , a derelict cottage ideal for improvement , or a house with a large garden having development potential . |
| 22 | It was to include public administration training courses and bursaries for black South Africans likely to become senior officials in the new political system . |
| 23 | The aftermath of recession in 1981 to 1984 was felt most in the North , and differences in industrial structure left all its constituent regions likely to show heavier decline ( in data in brackets ) than any of those of the South . |
| 24 | They did , however , anticipate that boards would bring together people likely to have different views about the purposes of boards . |
| 25 | It consists , essentially , of wilfully assaulting , ill-treating , neglecting , abandoning , or exposing a child in a manner likely to cause unnecessary suffering or injury to health . |
| 26 | Patients likely to develop hepatic decompensation who receive interferon alfa must , however , be monitored closely by an experienced hepatologist , preferably in a centre with facilities for liver transplantation . |
| 27 | The types of patients likely to require psychiatric inpatient treatment were discussed in Chapter 4 . |
| 28 | The Brotherhood said after al-Masri 's appointment that it did not wish to participate in a government likely to make territorial concessions to Israel . |
| 29 | The fact that a practitioner has a copy of the Blue Book ( which contains the Institute 's regulations and guidance notes on investment business ) on his shelf does not necessarily mean that he has read and understood it , and in some firms the Institute 's Investment Business Gazettes ( which announce changes to regulations and other requirements , and provide a general round-up of developments likely to affect authorised firms ) are filed away unread if they are kept at all . |
| 30 | Ladies likely to keep three teams |