Example sentences of "likely that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | New synthetic chemicals and new antibiotics have been discovered and brought into use , but at present ( 1990 ) it does not seem likely that tuberculosis will be eradicated simply by the discovery of effective drugs . |
| 2 | It seems more likely that prostaglandin independent actions such as increased gastrin or acid production , or local production of toxins against epithelial cells account for this amplified impairment in mucosal defence . |
| 3 | It is likely that hypertension adversely affects overall morbidity and mortality in diabetes and has deleterious effects on the more specific diabetic complications . |
| 4 | Whereas the majority of these will eventually have to submit to similar assessment and testing procedures as the core , it seems likely that art and music will only need to establish attainment guidelines . |
| 5 | Following this last point it is significant that the birthrate tended throughout the nineteenth century to be highest in areas where employment opportunities for women were lowest , for it is likely that knowledge was more easily acquired by factory workers than by those in service or those who stayed at home . |
| 6 | It is likely that Sky and Eurosport will be taking the role of host broadcaster , which will guarantee sponsors some form of exposure of their products during the Games , from July 14-25 , 1991 . |
| 7 | Nevertheless it seems likely that change was forced on him , as earlier on such ‘ empirical ’ despots as Peter I in Russia and Frederick William I in Prussia , by the need for greater practical efficiency , and to some extent perhaps by an instinctive feeling for rationality , not by theories propounded in Paris . |
| 8 | If you begin to feel better , then it is likely that hyperventilation is the cause of the trouble . |
| 9 | The scope of this judgment is such that it is also likely that member states are liable in damages where they act in breach of Community law which results in an individual or company suffering loss . |
| 10 | If , in relation to share transfers , stamp duty and stamp duty reserve tax are abolished , it is likely that reduction schemes will fall into disuse . |
| 11 | It seems quite likely that lack of management diligence , in the form of lethargy or a preference for a ‘ quiet life ’ , and leading , for example , to failure to adapt to new trading environments or to technological change , is the most serious source of avoidable damage to company profitability . |
| 12 | It seems likely that child labour underground increased after 1815 as the greater use of wheeled wagons on rail tracks brought the drawing of coal within their physical capabilities . |
| 13 | This CCOAC makes it more likely that Person Y was involved in the things we think he was involved in but … ’ |
| 14 | It is likely that HRT for post-menopausal women would reduce hip fractures by 50 per cent . |
| 15 | It is true that , for a variety of reasons to do with the structure of wage bargaining in Britain , Keynes did not consider it very likely that money wages would fall , even in the presence of substantial unemployment . |
| 16 | Indeed , as the writing system was not standardized , it is likely that variation of this kind would enter more readily into the texts than it would today , and that it may therefore be possible by comparing texts to trace the pattern by which one variant recedes and another spreads . |
| 17 | The structure of the transaction has not been finalised , but it is likely that management at the Scottish broker will end up with an equity stake in the combined business . |
| 18 | It seems likely that Prince , chastened by the relative fall-off in his popularity after the caprices and wilful erraticism that followed Purple Rain has opted for consolidation . |
| 19 | Acetylcholine ( ACh ) and the enzymes that hydrolyse and synthesize it ( acetylcholine esterase and choline acetylase ) are present in relatively large quantities in insects ( Smallman and Mansing , 1969 ) and it seems likely that acetylcholine is a transmitter at neuropilar axo-axonic synapses ; y-aminobutyric acid ( GABA ) may also play a part in synaptic transmission in the neuropile . |
| 20 | It is likely that gender differences in adolescence are , in part , the consequence of differential socialisation in earlier schooling . |
| 21 | For heavy goods , especially of timber and stone , it still seems likely that water transport , by river and sea and a little by canal , was cheaper and more expeditious than long-distance travel by road — and that there was sense as well as sentiment , for example , in the devotion the Norman builders showed in England for their native stone from Caen . |
| 22 | It was more likely that fitzAlan did not want a distraught woman on his hands . |
| 23 | Similarly Bennett ( 1976 : 5 ) remarks ‘ it seems likely that communication is primarily a matter of a speaker 's seeking either to inform a hearer of something or to enjoin some action upon him ’ . |
| 24 | Whilst there is no formal age limit for this post , in accordance with the initiative to bring young staff into the profession , it is likely that preference will generally be given to staff at an early stage in their career . |
| 25 | Whilst the orgiastic dancers may have been stimulated by alcohol , it is likely that opium was used to heighten the states of meditation during long vigils and bouts of prayer , the curious seclusions which the ancients called ‘ incubation ’ . |
| 26 | It is likely that locomotor and positional behaviours were related to environmental change , in this case the move from tropical forest habitats in Africa to the subtropical and warm temperate forest habitats of Europe , which would have been both more seasonal and more open , with less complex canopies . |
| 27 | With or without the complicity of the government statutory services are performing a very limited role , However , we must not underestimate the potential role of services as it seems highly likely that propensity of the informal sector is enhanced rather than diminished by the support of statutory agencies . |
| 28 | It is likely that Unit will want to acquire more engineering interests to tie in with the Surrey business . |
| 29 | If any Mercurian core separated from the mantle then it is likely that mantle temperatures became high enough for differentiation within the mantle to occur , the less dense substances moving upwards to form a crust . |
| 30 | The areas enclosed in the south of the county were on average larger than those in the east , so it is likely that enclosure there took place at a time when conditions were more conducive to the practice . |