Example sentences of "unlikely [that] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the chromatography eluants used in this study are particularly suited to detecting tobacco related carcinogens — and will miss some small molecular weight adducts altogether — it is unlikely that smoking can account for the increased adduct levels found as the percentage of smokers in the truncal vagotomy group ( 54% ) was very similar to that of the highly selective vagotomy patients ( 52% ) . |
| 2 | For the remaining 80% of winters , it is unlikely that doubling of CO 2 will suppress the occurrence of a stratospheric warming sufficiently to produce an Arctic ozone hole , although even in these conditions ozone depletion could be enhanced . |
| 3 | Despite these cautionary remarks , it appears unlikely that union power will revive as soon as the economic climate improves . |
| 4 | Why is it unlikely that depreciation will provide for replacement of the fixed asset ? |
| 5 | It is extremely unlikely that legislation will result from this . |
| 6 | It is highly unlikely that semiconductor designs will be considered to be artistic works . |
| 7 | ‘ The cases in which the principle has been applied are cases in which the nature , scope and purpose of the function vested in the repository made it unlikely that Parliament intended that it was to be exercised by the repository personally because administrative necessity indicated that it was impractical for him to act otherwise than through his officers or officers responsible to him . |
| 8 | It is unlikely that IT managers will wish to migrate such large amounts of dead material across computer systems . |
| 9 | It 's very unlikely that video will be your only means of presenting language so you do have a choice . |
| 10 | In formal situations roles can clearly give people special rights , but even in conversation — where according to our definition unequal power is suspended — it is unlikely that knowledge of participants ' social office or status will be wholly forgotten . |
| 11 | It is unlikely that music will receive the same emphasis or resources as the ‘ core ’ subjects of English , Mathematics and Science in most schools , in spite of its designation as a ‘ foundation ’ subject . |
| 12 | However , if a small company does n't provide for any one of these operations , it is unlikely that company can give its artists adequate service . |
| 13 | It is unlikely that anti-Semitism was as powerful in its motivational force for recruits in the Party 's ‘ mass phase ’ after 1929–30 as it had been for the early activist core of the NSDAP . |
| 14 | It was not beyond the wit of any surgeon worthy of his calling or apothecary worthy of his phial to have been able to perform superficial embalming , and it is highly unlikely that assistance was asked for at the London end . |
| 15 | It is unlikely that water power was used for the saws . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , it is unlikely that homoacetogenesis is amajor route of disposal of H 2 in the human colon since molar ratios of acetate , propionate , and butyrate are similar in methanogenic and non-methanogenic people . |
| 17 | However , it is thought unlikely that Jaguar would ask the Government for the limit to be raised early in order to allow its preferred partner to build a stake of more than 15 per cent before January , 1991 . |
| 18 | While this was always true , it was unlikely that committee members would be held personally liable while the government was underwriting the costs . |
| 19 | It seems unlikely that experience can take us outside of the closed circle of experience to reveal that upon which experience — experience in general , rather than particular experience — is based . |
| 20 | It is possible but unlikely that progress might have been made had the UN adopted an investigative role instead of a course of action proposed by the United States . |
| 21 | Therefore , it is unlikely that reflux of acid or gas had occurred just before the onset of the contractile activity . |
| 22 | It is unlikely that voting by a single shareholder will make much difference to the success of a resolution either way , and so it is not worthwhile for shareholders to evaluate proposals put to the general meeting . |
| 23 | Many of the Asian designers the US trade weekly talked to were worried about the 66MHz clock frequency , because at that speed , stray radiations become a serious problem and it is unlikely that garage operations are going to be able to knock up boards using the chip that will work . |
| 24 | Although Sir Frederick Dainton , formerly a chairman of the University Grants Committee , spoke in 1984 of the need for a ‘ global , school-based assessment including profiles to end universities ' reliance on A levels ' for their admissions selection , it is exceedingly unlikely that entry to higher education would ever come to rely on profiles , or any other in-school method of assessment alone . |
| 25 | Considering that there ate 168 hours in each week , it becomes quite obvious that it is unlikely that staffing rosters could be arranged which would permit the employment of full-time staff only . |
| 26 | The wintering population has declined considerably in recent years , but it is unlikely that breeding numbers have altered greatly since 1938 . |
| 27 | First , it is unlikely that counselling actually creates distress not previously present somewhere within the individual . |
| 28 | Furthermore , PGE type compounds have been shown to be effective inhibitors of FMLP activated human neutrophils , making it even more unlikely that indomethacin induced inhibition of cyclo-oxygenase underlies the ability of indomethacin to attenuate FMLP induced chemiluminescence from neutrophils . |
| 29 | It is thought unlikely that marketing or agency arrangements will be affected . |
| 30 | It was unlikely that murder had been committed for a few pounds , but one could never be sure . |