Example sentences of "[be] [adv] likely that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , if staff led by a head and one or two senior colleagues worked their way through these tasks ( and it might be more likely that senior staff themselves would have drafted the audit and put it forward for discussion , alteration and approval by others ) , they would be familiar with most of the important issues concerning the national curriculum . |
| 2 | Although there are other possible sources , it is most likely that these lines are an echo of Pope 's comments on Martha Blount 's celibacy : |
| 3 | It is highly likely that one corner , edge or the centre of the object you have just drawn will need to be lined up with a corner , edge or centre of one or more of the objects already on the screen . |
| 4 | It is highly likely that interglacial sea levels are represented by marine terraces or raised beaches , but the levels associated with each interglacial are to some extent in dispute . |
| 5 | A survey will be carried out of sewage disposal systems and it is highly likely that major expenditure will be necessary . |
| 6 | It is highly likely that special forces — 22nd SAS Regt. , and Special Boat Squadron RM — have been present in the Gulf since an early stage of Operation ‘ Granby ’ . |
| 7 | Even if we restrict the process to include only lagged values of s and f , it is highly likely that longer lags in s and f will have an effect on their current values . |
| 8 | Near Roman towns , it is highly likely that original churches were founded as mausolea or temples in graveyards outside the Roman settlement proper . |
| 9 | It is highly likely that this agglutinin is fibrinogen ( Gartner et al , 1980 ; Berndt & Phillips , 1981 ) . |
| 10 | Thus , especially in a time of unsettled orthography , it is extremely likely that current sound-changes will be admitted into writing , whatever the historical origins of the writing conventions may be . |
| 11 | Although it is impossible in a doorstep survey to estimate network strengths for individuals , it is extremely likely that varying network strengths are also implicated in the simplification pattern . |
| 12 | The therapist will otherwise receive a one-sided and often unavoidably distorted view of the relationship , and it is less likely that worthwhile change will be achieved . |
| 13 | A united management means it is less likely that disaffected family members will seek to realise the value of their shareholdings ; their financial and political clout should improve as each of the families ceases attempts to undermine the other 's access to finance for expansion , and ; two separate distribution networks working together should mean the companies can gain additional contracts from non-competitive brand names . |
| 14 | The firm that produces both models need not keep twice as many gearboxes in store to have the same availability as would two firms each producing one model because , unless the uncertainties are perfectly correlated , it is less likely that high production of both models will be required on any particular day than that high production of either one will . |
| 15 | It is much likelier that Albanian gunmen killed them . |
| 16 | You may not think that you have a problem , but in a company of even modest size it is statistically likely that some employees will have a drink problem . |
| 17 | The knights were never more than one arm of any fighting force ; and it is hardly likely that any force of knights was ever recruited entirely by ‘ feudal ’ means . |
| 18 | It is more likely that such hoards will be found today simply because of their size , so we may be dealing with a higher rate of recovery for these hoards than is normal for hoards of other periods . |
| 19 | It is more likely that other factors , as yet unrecognised , are important . |
| 20 | Despite these hints , it is more likely that those magnates of Childebert who encouraged Gundovald in 582 were men who had strong reservations about the king and his mother . |
| 21 | Taken with Gaimar 's story , however , it is more likely that these men were the Welsh of Wales . |
| 22 | If class membership is transmitted across generations ( that is , if there is little social mobility ) then it is more likely that these classes will become distinct social entities , differing in many ways in their social characteristics . |
| 23 | However the evidence suggests ( see pages 75–6 ) that it is more likely that this decision was reached at a later date , when the force of events made it seem imperative . |
| 24 | It is also likely that other effects , in particular the altered -system and its effect on base stacking , contribute to d 3C A induced destabilisation . |
| 25 | However , it is also likely that other factors , as yet unrecognised , are important . |
| 26 | It is also likely that chemical weathering is enhanced in the vicinity of roots where carbon dioxide concentrations are likely to be higher and where the extraction of metal cations is occurring . |
| 27 | It is also likely that some tailoring of the system will be necessary for a different application . |
| 28 | It is also likely that this view is a departure from earlier law , in which it is not attested . |
| 29 | Some kind of social democracy in Russia , erm on the other hand in central Asia as for example , I think it 's quite likely that former communists , although they may disavow their former allegiance , will in practice take over as national communist parties and continue to run their economies , well there will be private economies but with a large state sector and run on a pretty tight reign . |
| 30 | Now it 's quite likely that next time I come we can spend quite a bit of time doing this same thing again yeah cos there 's a lot in it there 's angles using a protractor adding things up to check they come to the total that the angles come to three sixty and there 's this thing about fractions there 's cancelling fractions and then there 's working with quite big numbers three hundred and sixty what 's two fifteenths of three hundred and sixty mm that 's quite hard . |