Example sentences of "likely to have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British reader , who is likely to have been spared certain of the varieties of suffering which are spoken of in the writings of Kundera and Klima , where a joke , or no joke , or nothing whatever , can sequester you for years from the people you grew up with , is in a position , for all that , to know what Sabina means here . |
| 2 | The fact that the final article is likely to have been polished by Sir David English , the editor and long-standing friend of Margaret Thatcher , prompted speculation that the Number 10 knives were out for the Chancellor , and that his days might be numbered . |
| 3 | The shareholding shuffle is likely to have been provoked by Philip Morris which is thought to have lost interest in Rothmans . |
| 4 | Dunning and Murphy have tried to argue that violent street-gangs , whose antics led to several alarmed inquiries around the turn of the century , were likely to have been present at football matches from the outset . |
| 5 | It is just as likely to have been a Turkish Cypriot farmer moving too far south . |
| 6 | These were most likely to have been zeroed by the action of sunlight prior to their deposition on the sea bed . |
| 7 | As we have said before ; horses high in aggression are more likely to have been the survivors during the processes of evolution . |
| 8 | Worse , many bad habits can be especially difficult to cure because they are likely to have been created by anxiety in the first place , and trying to stop the habit increases the horse 's anxiety . |
| 9 | Given that the annual cost of a Roman legion was 1.25 million denarii , this calculation shows that provincial bronze coinage is not likely to have been used to pay the wages of Roman legionaries . |
| 10 | They were more likely to have been bell towers , although Neeld was very much of the feudal landlord ilk and everything was designed to give an impression of vast wealth and efficiency , ’ he says . |
| 11 | When the type of home was taken into account , those dying of respiratory disease were more likely to have been in nursing homes — 14 per cent compared with 6 per cent for those dying of other conditions — whereas those dying of stroke were more likely to have been in old people 's homes : 27 per cent against 12 per cent . |
| 12 | When the type of home was taken into account , those dying of respiratory disease were more likely to have been in nursing homes — 14 per cent compared with 6 per cent for those dying of other conditions — whereas those dying of stroke were more likely to have been in old people 's homes : 27 per cent against 12 per cent . |
| 13 | On the other hand , if we look at a later decision-making episode in the same project when the pupils are temporarily in role as Indians who have to decide whether or not to receive a white stranger into their midst ( p. 53 ) , this is more likely to have been played seriously as a real game for by then the children , after several lessons on the same project , were steeped in the material sufficiently deeply to respect the rich complexity of the problem . |
| 14 | This is likely to have been the lower valve , and fossils are sometimes found in ‘ life position ’ , which confirms this . |
| 15 | His foresight in writing this was valuable , for the Golf Illustrated article was likely to have been taken at face value owing to the absence of any information to the contrary ! |
| 16 | For example , the Commission demonstrated that in Birmingham LEA 's schools between 1974 and 1980 black children were four times more likely to have been suspended from school than whites , and that factors such as place of residence and single-parent family background could be discounted . |
| 17 | To discover how cost-effective it was to sustain at home people who were judged likely to have been in an institution had it not been for the project 's services . |
| 18 | However , of all those present , he was probably the least likely to have been attempting to secure the work for himself . |
| 19 | The family had obviously taken its name from the land-holding and at some stage this was likely to have been written as de Forstershey , or something very similar . |
| 20 | Your boss 's behaviour of chasing you and putting pressure on is likely to have been positively reinforced , ie it was ‘ nice ’ for him when you finally came up with ideas which he found satisfactory . |
| 21 | Ellwood et al. ( 1980 ) , however , argued that when the maximum depth of burial ( estimated at 12 km ) and age are taken into account , the sediments underlying the Piedmont , though not as altered as the surface rocks , are likely to have been raised to the greenschist phase of metamorphism and so presumably have little remaining hydrocarbon potential . |
| 22 | They were , on the contrary , likely to have been appreciably higher — say 30° to perhaps 50° or more during periods of significant crustal extension such as the Permian , and at times during the Jurassic and Early Cretaceous . |
| 23 | At the depths envisaged , any potential oil source rocks such as the Calp shales and Rossmore Mudstone have probably passed through the oil window ; unless oil was preserved by migration to higher levels , it is likely to have been cracked into gas and condensate . |
| 24 | Furthermore , such migrated oil is likely to have been displaced by subsequent migrating gas . |
| 25 | However , it does suggest that the patient 's distress beforehand was more likely to have been related to environmental stresses than an endogenous illness . |
| 26 | In addition 10 seen at Litlington on 14 October 1974 seem most likely to have been on migration , apparently the only such record for Sussex . |
| 27 | A less selective article might have noted that the main thrust of the advice for harp seats is that pup production in 1977–1980 was likely to have been longer than the later 1960s pup production . |
| 28 | The bulk of those who remain interested in UFOs seem less likely to have been motivated by personal experience and are more willing to undergo the reappraisal needed to rationalise their approach . |
| 29 | The laboratory 's opinion , though , is that the incident was more likely to have been an attempt to make the researchers there look a bit silly . |
| 30 | It remained in the possession of the Stewarts until the reign of James V , in the first half of the 16th century , and is likely to have been used occasionally by the royal family when they were visiting Ayrshire . |