Example sentences of "[be] likely [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd say something like a hundred million million times harder than anything you 're likely to do in normal everyday life . |
| 2 | Others though are likely to proceed towards such an arrangement . |
| 3 | There is evidence that successful reproduction reduces the future reproductive capabilities or survival of females in several species ( e.g. Wooller & Coulson , 1977 ; Altmann , Altmann & Hausfater , 1978 ; Guinness , Albon & Clutton-Brock , 1978 ; Bryant , 1979 ) and in some species successful males are likely to die before unsuccessful ones ( Geist , 1971 ) . |
| 4 | All you are likely to notice at first is a general deterioration of the leaves , perhaps wilting , discoloration and poor growth , followed by death . |
| 5 | By the end of the century oil and gas are likely to account for 20–25 per cent of GNP . |
| 6 | The energy exporters are likely to account for more than half the growth in demand to the year 2000 and their share of consumption will increase to almost 50% . |
| 7 | It provides us with information which can suggest not only how individuals came to be in their present position but the way they are likely to respond to new difficulties and choices . |
| 8 | To understand the implications of long-term contracts for monetary policy , one needs a model of the way those contracts are likely to respond to alternative monetary policy regimes . |
| 9 | Without some assessment of what proportion of cases are likely to respond to homoeopathic treatment , an estimate of its efficacy when compared with other therapies is impossible . |
| 10 | Only fairly simple , non-controversial bills are likely to succeed by this method . |
| 11 | A further 45 cases are likely to go to judicial review . |
| 12 | The new republics are likely to settle for fixed times for elections , following the American model . |
| 13 | About 40 towns and cities are investigating similar schemes but funding problems are likely to rule out most of them . |
| 14 | From the point of view of social network studies , sex differences in language use are likely to arise from two sources . |
| 15 | With some 15,500 outlets for their business , solicitors are likely to remain for some time the principal providers of legal services even if there is considerable expansion of alternatives to the use of solicitors for some legal work ( The Law Society , 1990 ) . |
| 16 | They are likely to flower at different times and the effect will be untidy . |
| 17 | Details of the programme have not yet been decided but are likely to fall into five main areas of research : Information Processing Systems and Software ; Advanced Home and Business Systems and Peripherals ; Computer Integrated Manufacturing and Engineering ; Microelectronics ; and Basic research Actions . |
| 18 | The report predicts that ozone levels are likely to fall by another 15 per cent by the year 2000 over most of Europe . |
| 19 | Thus his argument is that although both effects exist , the important effect as far as eyewitness testimony is concerned is that high levels of arousal in actual crimes are likely to lead to impaired memory performance . |
| 20 | Better understanding of the secrets of transcription control are likely to lead to new selective vectors . |
| 21 | The modalities are likely to lead to this remedy : |
| 22 | Negotiations are likely to last into next month . |
| 23 | These steps are likely to result in many employees ' worries being reduced and their attitudes towards relocation abroad becoming more favourable . |
| 24 | For example , they may be reluctant to develop new markets and products if these actions are likely to result in initial losses , unless the cost of such initiatives are ‘ added back ’ in the definition of earnout profits . |
| 25 | Basically , the head teacher must consider it inappropriate for the time being for the pupil to follow the National Curriculum and that either ( 1 ) circumstances giving rise to that opinion are likely to change within six months or ( 2 ) that the pupil may have special educational needs requiring modification of the National Curriculum and temporary exception is necessary while those needs are assessed . |
| 26 | Since many of the acts penalised are likely to amount to offensive conduct within the terms of section 5 , it is to be regretted that the opportunity was not taken to examine this jurisprudential anachronism which , although it no longer carries a power of arrest , should perhaps be either modernised or repealed in its entirety . |
| 27 | Exports of natural gas to the US by pipeline and LNG exports particularly to Japan , are likely to increase to some 30 MTOE by the year 2000 , and even higher levels of export , particularly to the US , are quite possible . |
| 28 | These transitions are likely to differ from recent western transitions from other types of authoritarian rule in a number of key respects . |
| 29 | At Midland we recognise that your mortgage needs are likely to differ from those of many others . |
| 30 | The sheer frequency in our population of sexual difficulty means that sexual problems are likely to figure among those which confront clients . |