Example sentences of "[be] not likely [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | I have only two boarders , both of whom leave before Christmas , and I am not likely to replace them easily . |
2 | If teachers do not believe that their pupils are able to be more responsible for their own mathematical learning , then they are not likely to give them the opportunity to be so . |
3 | The two sides are as far apart as ever and the latest developments on the Dublin and London fronts are not likely to bring them closer . |
4 | I do n't think I know anyone who has made a fortune from their knitting machine , but then they are not likely to tell me if they have a yacht in the Mediterranean and a villa in the south of France , are they ? |
5 | Erm simple as that if I give you a list of telephone numbers you 're not likely to remember them for long , you might be able |
6 | Well I 'm just saying I just said that we 're not likely to get it here . |
7 | Well , I did n't say this , but I thought , well I 'm not likely to have it before I 'm forty , but then , what if I do ? |
8 | But only when you were n't likely to need me , of course . ’ |
9 | She welcomes a mistress who is not likely to take him from her , even a waiflike wife who shares his dependence on her . |
10 | Corcoran , however , suffered a cricked neck during tackling practice which ended his day on the playing field though it is not likely to limit him today . |
11 | ‘ She 's not likely to tell me , ’ Mitch stated grumpily . |
12 | He is n't likely to do it again . ’ |
13 | But what the screens revealed was not likely to make me feel easy . |
14 | But these people had been shot down some months ago and as the Feldwebel had told me that this was only a transit camp I knew that I was not likely to meet them here . |
15 | " Look , the thing is , I want to go out tonight , but my mother was n't likely to allow me … " |
16 | Unsure whether he meant silly because she should n't have needed the confirmation , or silly because she was n't likely to get it , she frowned . |