Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [is] likely that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas in the past technological developments led to the emergence of new occupational groups , often with some measure of occupational control and , in the most recent past , usually making claims to some professional standing ( for example , the rise of the various branches of traditional engineering ) , we argue that in the future it is likely that employers will try to ensure that new jobs do not lead to the creation of new occupations as such , and especially not new occupations which will be allowed any measure of occupational control . |
| 2 | If one was to draw up a balance sheet of terrorism and murder involving innocent people it is likely that Mossad , the Israeli government and the CIA would easily exceed Arafat 's record depending , of course , upon how you choose to define terrorism . |
| 3 | For example , if the credit period were reduced for customers to pay their debts it is likely that sales would decrease as customers may trade with another company that gives them a greater period to pay . |
| 4 | Now , locations can be specified relative to other objects or fixed reference points , as in : ( 66 ) The station is two hundred yards from the cathedral ( 67 ) Kabul lies at latitude 34 degrees , longitude 7° degrees Alternatively , they can be deictically specified relative to the location of participants at the time of speaking ( CT ) , as in ( 68 ) It 's two hundred yards away ( 69 ) Kabul is four hundred miles West of here In either case it is likely that units of measurement , or descriptions of direction and location , will have to be used , and in that case place deixis comes to interact in complex ways with the non-deictic organization of space ( see Leech , 1969 ; Fillmore , 1975 : 16-28 ; Lyons , 1977a : 69Off ; and references therein ) . |
| 5 | For example , if a product is manufactured in the summer it is likely that heating costs would be minimal . |
| 6 | In the absence of geological evidence for extensive post-Hercynian igneous activity it is likely that basin inversion causing uplift is the major controlling factor for the apparent high reflectance values . |
| 7 | On stylistic grounds it is likely that Wastell was the designer of much of Lavenham church , Suffolk , between 1495 and 1515 , and the tower of Dedham , Essex , from 1494 . |