Example sentences of "likely [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | On a windy day with a strong wind gradient , you are quite likely to lose some extra height and speed and low approaches are always very risky . |
| 2 | We are clearly past the worst of the unemployment increases , but we are likely to see some erratic figures for a time . ’ |
| 3 | These are the cases of which every newspaper reader in the country is likely to see some mention . |
| 4 | As I left in early afternoon to catch the London train , I reflected that here was as large number of small businessmen who were likely to see some radical changes in the way they operated . |
| 5 | Therapeutic systems which disregard the more subtle aspects of the individual are likely to miss some at least of the precipitating factors in disease causation and are therefore likely to be less effective in treatment . |
| 6 | The programmed is likely to displace some 15,000 Auyu tribal people , most of whom depend on the forest as hunter-gatherers or rubber tappers . |
| 7 | Further damage and paint loss , caused by changes in humidity and temperature during the paintings ' absence , are likely to appear some time in the future , as is usual with sensitive panels . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They give factual information and opinions about aspects of the world and they are likely to contain some of these elements : |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The latter is likely to provide some scope for active involvement in the worshipping and musical life of the parish . |
| 13 | Now the indications are that they are likely to provide some funding though we have n't had that formally in writing yet . |
| 14 | Well , to start with , you are quite likely to meet some fascinating flying men and women before you even get into an aircraft . |
| 15 | 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 . " |
| 16 | The history of the royal succession shows time and again that a prince had to prove himself in order to be sure of inheriting a kingdom , and the process of building up a following and prestige was likely to cause some conflict . |
| 17 | Harbourmaster Bill Broadbent said : ‘ In the short term , construction is likely to cause some inconvenience in the Albert Dock . |
| 18 | The A forty one , the road between Banbury and Bicester , there are temporary traffic lights between the Soldern turn-off , that 's by the Bear public house and the Northampshire border ; that 's likely to cause some long delays . |
| 19 | That 's likely to cause some delays to your journey if you 're travelling along that way . |
| 20 | Anyway , if such a well-bred person was unlucky enough to be afflicted with one of these ailments , he was more likely to consult some understanding physician privately ; and so it was largely the dirty and damned who attended the special clinics . |
| 21 | Supporters of a more means-tested approach are also much more likely to favour some type of negative income tax scheme and argue that within each contingent class there are some who need help and some who do not , so that the rich in ‘ needy-contingent ’ categories gain at the expense of the poor in less needy-contingent categories , e.g. the low-paid workers . |
| 22 | The Prime Minister , Mr Rajiv Gandhi , was advised when he called the elections that his Congress Party was likely to win some 70 seats in the south . |
| 23 | Even after the release of the original data , our datasets are likely to retain some value , since it would require considerable effort to reproduce them . |
| 24 | In fact , any attempt by the press to act as a free oppositional/ adversarial press was itself likely to generate some form of criticism since it confronted governments with powerful adversaries , a situation which governments ( and Parliaments ) did not , and still do not , appear willing to tolerate . |
| 25 | The circular states : ‘ A change of this significance is likely to encounter some difficulties during the early stages of implementation ’ . |
| 26 | Costs in this area are not clear at the moment , except for the telephone system , which is likely to cost some £25,000 . |
| 27 | Japan and Europe are now likely to adopt some form of the American system , which will employ digital signals similar to those used by computers . |
| 28 | It 's very likely to turn some of these children themselves into sort of er mutant monsters , er some of them behave extraordinarily badly , and yet they 're very sweet children when they 're eating the right diet . |
| 29 | But even short of this , other critics believe the videos are likely to foster some beneficial change . |
| 30 | Whilst the experiment was limited to trainee engineers and by the type of microcomputer used , the results of this investigation indicated that : 1 ) the mode of man-machine interaction which was most popular and has the fewest dissenters , was one in which the user directed the course of action , as in the modular program ; 2 ) a fast design time was most likely to be achieved by the use of an optimization technique ; 3 ) an optimum design was most likely to be achieved by a preprogrammed optimization technique , but only where the problem , design parameters and constraints were understood ; 4 ) the technique thought most likely to allow some gaining of insight was one in which the user has control of the program , as in the modular program . |