Example sentences of "unlikely that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is now unlikely that a solution will be found in time for next Wednesday 's debate on the poll tax at the Tory conference in Blackpool . |
| 2 | Lord Justice Balcombe said it was unlikely that a pending court application by the mother , who is divorced from the children 's father , for access to her children would succeed . |
| 3 | As the increasing number of cars will mean that , collectively , their emissions will remain substantial , it seems unlikely that a dramatic reduction in nitrogen oxide emissions can be expected . |
| 4 | The pragmatist might acknowledge this point but would offer the further thought that , under normal circumstances , it is unlikely that a flea 's stray garment could be mistaken for anything else , and that the flea. its garments and any other intimately associated paraphernalia would be more sensibly and helpfully handled as a single record . |
| 5 | It is therefore unlikely that a woman could either infect a lavatory seat or bring an infectable part of her anatomy in contact with such a seat . |
| 6 | This seemed a reasonable system to consider , as , although it was unlikely that a perfect balance between costs and income could ever be achieved , it provided a target to aim for , or a shared value for all staff engaged on activities concerned with cost control and income generation , regardless of their departmental position . |
| 7 | It is most unlikely that a mother or father looking at a new-born child will be saying : — ‘ We have here a potential villain , who could , in a few years time be getting a living by robbery , violence or some other criminal activity . |
| 8 | Of course , you may reasonably point out , it is highly unlikely that a child would eat delphinium seeds . |
| 9 | Both sides seemed satisfied and although it is unlikely that a two-tier Champagne classification would have been workable in the long term , it sufficed for the present although it was still being debated in the Senate when war broke out three years later . |
| 10 | The codes are unique and it is extremely unlikely that a ‘ false ’ signal could be given or received . |
| 11 | Reading through Robert Green 's trade card it seems highly unlikely that a client would want to purchase outright such items as the velvet pall , the room hangings , the large silvered candlesticks and sconces , or the feathers and cloaks , for these objects would be of little or no use to the purchaser once the funeral had taken place . |
| 12 | Besides , it is highly unlikely that a murderer would attend his victim 's funeral . |
| 13 | It is unlikely that a single explanation can fully account for a human activity that has been defined in such varied ways . |
| 14 | As a result it is highly unlikely that a party with a serious commitment to any substantial change in the institutional form of the market would ever get elected as it would be portrayed and perceived as being ‘ too extreme ’ . |
| 15 | In a word like pack for example , it is unlikely that a pattern recogniser , no matter how accurate , will be able to say if the correct sequence of letters is pack , paclc , or padc . |
| 16 | It seems unlikely that a Tibetan would have got up there to take them , but then it could be argued that it 's equally unlikely that a yeti was the culprit . |
| 17 | It seems unlikely that a Tibetan would have got up there to take them , but then it could be argued that it 's equally unlikely that a yeti was the culprit . |
| 18 | There is usually little difficulty in establishing a good business reason , since without it it is highly unlikely that a company would wish to relocate . |
| 19 | Such instances are not typical of their managerial system of control for it is unlikely that a single individual would be able to oversee a widely dispersed media empire . |
| 20 | But for the CPSU Politburo in 1968 , these measures were a casus belli , and it is not unlikely that a future Politburo will take a similar view of such transgressions . |
| 21 | As our findings indicate that traditional farming techniques cause significant erosion , it is unlikely that a return to prehispanic farming methods would solve the problem of environmental degradation . |
| 22 | In this context of the numbers of men , the use of weapons and the multiple attacks , it would be unlikely that a conviction would not have occurred , even without the racial theme . |
| 23 | The sheer scale of military involvement was bound to place a major strain on her resources , and it was unlikely that a Japan that had been unable to achieve a Chinese surrender in four years when her military efforts were largely concentrated on that country would be able to secure a military victory now that many of her resources were diverted elsewhere . |
| 24 | For example , it is unlikely that a Banking dictionary would have sufficient coverage to aid the recognition of medical texts , regardless of how suitable the collocations were . |
| 25 | The spoken word is a different skill than the written one and it is unlikely that a press release will be used as it stands . |
| 26 | It is probably highly unlikely that a firm which earns , say , 20 per cent from one productive opportunity can earn the same return from all other productive opportunities . |
| 27 | Bringing his voice under control he suggested it was unlikely that a man of O'Hara 's established reputation would want to appear in the provinces . |
| 28 | While it is unlikely that a feminist politics informed their development , these concepts draw attention to routines which , in many households , are deeply gendered . |
| 29 | It is very unlikely that a solar panel would chop your hand off if you accidentally put it in the wrong place , but the 36 in ( 91cm ) span of the larger wind generators can be deadly . |
| 30 | Whether this will in practice make a great difference may be doubted , since it seems unlikely that a court will come to the conclusion that a chief constable of police has come to a decision that he could not reasonably arrive at , which is the critical test for the exercise of the powers of judicial review . |