Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] be likely [that] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it came to structuring the District Health Authorities in the form which existed until 1990 , the Department of Health stipulated that ‘ it is important to make appointments only where it is likely that prospective members will have the health and vigour to make an effective contribution throughout their term of office . |
| 2 | Dietary and postural therapies are aimed principally at correcting environmentally induced imbalances , and as such should be considered in any treatment programme where it is likely that such imbalances play a part . |
| 3 | whereby that person is likely to believe that such violence would be used or it is likely that such violence would be provoked . |
| 4 | ‘ whereby that person is likely to believe that such violence would be used or it is likely that such violence would be provoked ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ whereby that person is likely to believe that such violence would be used or it is likely that such violence would be provoked ’ The officer dealing and/or civilian witnesses could help prove this point by including in their evidence observations such as , ‘ The crowd of visiting football supporters were likely to believe they were going to be attacked ’ , or ‘ It was likely that the visiting supporters would lose their tempers and attack the home crowd ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ ( 1 ) A person is guilty of an offence if he — ( a ) uses towards another person threatening , abusive or insulting words or behaviour , or ( b ) distributes or displays to another person any writing , sign or other visible representation which is threatening , abusive or insulting , with intent to cause that person to believe that immediate unlawful violence will be used against him or another by any person , or to provoke the immediate use of unlawful violence by that person or another , or whereby that person is likely to believe that such violence will be used or it is likely that such violence will be provoked . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ whereby that person is likely to believe that such violence ( i.e. immediate unlawful violence against him or another ) will be used or it is likely that such violence will be provoked . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Although it is likely that future gains will be more modest , profitability will be robust , ’ it said , adding that the industry can also expect to benefit from growing demand , especially from canny corporate customers , and from balanced regulation — public service commissions are increasingly approving alternative regulatory plans which permit the companies to boost earnings above a targeted level , provided they improve efficiency and share earnings gains with their subscribers . |
| 9 | Looking ahead to the early twenty-first century , the smaller size of nuclear families in the late twentieth century makes it evident that there will be fewer relatives about to share family care although it is likely that many fewer people will be childless ( Rossiter and Wicks , 1982 , p. 66 ) . |
| 10 | The newly risen semi-literacy in England means that it is likely that those who read the book after seeing the film will not be able to find the works of Donne and other classic authors alluded to in the book in their local libraries . |
| 11 | A good deal of philosophical writing about what is called intentionality suggests that it is likely that this line of objection , that objects or contents are sometimes missing , has another wholly different root , in a certain confusion . |
| 12 | But it really stretches the bounds of possibility too far to say that it is likely that this will happen . |
| 13 | Although there was no indication of cuts in the $10,000,000 in agricultural commodity loans previously allocated , MEED suggested that it was likely that this part of the assistance package would also be reduced . |
| 14 | 1983 ) ; that it was likely that British Afro-Caribbean girls , for a variety of reasons , were more successful at school level than Afro-Caribbean boys ( Driver , 1980 ; Fuller , 1983 ) ; and that pupils of Bangladesh I origin were performing particularly badly ( House of Commons , Home Affairs Select Committee , 1986 ) . |
| 15 | Most of the people , just over two thirds , who spent all the last year of their life in a residential or nursing home were 85 or more , and it is this age group which is predicted to increase most rapidly in the next twenty years ( Central Statistical Office ( CSO ) , 1989 ) so it is likely that increasing numbers will spend the last year of their lives in such homes . |
| 16 | α-granule nucleoids have been demonstrated by electronmicroscopic studies in the canalicular system ( White , 1974 ) , and it is likely that normal secretion involves not only fusion of these granules with the canalicular system but also platelet contraction . |
| 17 | However , the position is not as simple as this because , if the merger had taken place , rationalisation and restructuring would have happened anyway and it is likely that certain plants in any combined GM/Leyland group would have closed . |
| 18 | And for that reason , need , local need , should be catered for , unemployment sh obviously should be catered for but a growth strategy which seeks to double the allocation without any justification is inevitably going to lead to one of two things , it is going to draw in in economic activity from outside , and it is likely that that will be from areas of regeneration , or it will lead to commuting . |
| 19 | The cattle that survived this vicious circle of pasture depletion were no doubt those that could make the most of small areas of rough grazing and it is likely that small , thrifty cattle were positively selected in preference to larger improved types which needed better feeding . |
| 20 | A number of papers have recently been published which present new colliding wave solutions using some of these techniques , and it is likely that many more such papers will appear . |
| 21 | The only major gaps in an otherwise even pattern of settlements are the present villages , and it is likely that many if not most of these are on earlier sites . |
| 22 | And it is likely that poor countries have bigger ‘ informal ’ economies than do rich ones . |
| 23 | This sanctioned the informal merging of the Percy retinue into Gloucester 's , and it is likely that these examples of men with a Percy background entering Gloucester 's service owed as much to Northumberland 's good lordship as to private enterprise . |
| 24 | The emeralds used in the ancient world were all mined in Upper Egypt and it is likely that these were first exported on a significant scale to satisfy the Roman appetite for coloured transparent stones . |
| 25 | Historical circumstances allow us to trace the change from archaic to classical most clearly in Athens , but other cities — Argos , Sicyon , Aegina — figure largely in the literary sources for this period , especially for their artists in bronze , and it is likely that these were prominent in the revolution . |
| 26 | This sanctioned the informal merging of the Percy retinue into Gloucester 's , and it is likely that these examples of men with a Percy background entering Gloucester 's service owed as much to Northumberland 's good lordship as to private enterprise . |
| 27 | Many of them are in old , dilapidated buildings , and it is likely that some authorities would take the opportunity to reduce surplus places by closing them . |
| 28 | A number of mollusc-like shells are known from the Cambrian and it is likely that some derive from halkieriid or related scleritomes . |
| 29 | A further possibly important mechanism in rock breakdown associated with freezing , at least in very fine-grained lithologies , is hydration shattering ( see Section 6.3.1 ) and it is likely that some of the effects of physical weathering previously attributed to frost weathering in fact result from this process . |
| 30 | BLAISE-LINE is now just one of a number of bibliographical databases available , and it is likely that this medium will increasingly be used for some aspects of stock revision , as librarians become more familiar with its potential . |