Example sentences of "[pers pn] [is] unlikely that [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it 's unlikely that one method will be used exclusively throughout the country . |
| 2 | It 's unlikely that this play will close the generation gap or produce many converts , but then if you 're that eager to open your mind to the joys of clubbing , going to the theatre is hardly the place to be . |
| 3 | But it is unlikely that collective bargaining by farmworkers will be implemented since the Government has a minority in the Senate — with nine senators bequeathed by former president Pinochet . |
| 4 | It is unlikely that such action would be taken unless the offending bonfire(s) occurred very frequently and witnesses were produced to that effect ’ . |
| 5 | However , there has been no resulting legislation along these lines and it is unlikely that such action will be taken in the foreseeable future . |
| 6 | It is unlikely that such vigour was ever witnessed elsewhere , certainly not in the British experience of industrialisation . |
| 7 | It is unlikely that such richness can be achieved in large hyper-bases where automated authoring is likely to prevail . |
| 8 | The second part of the exception would apply to spare parts such as replacement body panels for cars where the design is dictated by the appearance of the car but it is unlikely that many computer spare parts will fall into this category . |
| 9 | Common sense says that it is unlikely that one exposure to an ad will have any effect . |
| 10 | It is recommended that the number of modules referred to by an SSR are kept to a minimum : it is unlikely that one report can adequately describe the status of many modules . |
| 11 | Hence , it is unlikely that all dune forms will ever be reduced to one or two simple categories , although a few simple categories may describe the basic forms . |
| 12 | It is unlikely that further knowledge will improve treatment , but it may allow prevention of the disease , at least in a proportion of cases . |
| 13 | Because the effective osmotic pressure exerted by ethanol is far less than its measured osmotic pressure , however , it is unlikely that high osmolarity plays a major part in the production of acid inhibition by ethanol . |
| 14 | It is unlikely that formal deposit will be reached until the end of 1993 or early 1994 . ’ |
| 15 | It is unlikely that corporate management has the information available to it to determine what social goals are supported by a broad consensus or what their order of priority might be . |
| 16 | In fact the report concludes that ‘ it is unlikely that costly road construction will yield benefits sufficient to justify the investment ’ . |
| 17 | It is unlikely that this defence will be available in the case of every unpublished statutory instrument . |
| 18 | The analogy with a mechanical process no longer rings true and it is unlikely that this case will be followed . |
| 19 | Although the dustcover of this book asserts that the Telangana struggle is ‘ now legendary ’ , it is unlikely that this history is known in Britain . |
| 20 | Given the coming demographic changes which will lead to a steep decline in the eighteen-year-old population from the later 1980s onwards and the present government 's stated intention of constraining expenditure on higher education , it is unlikely that this expansion will be maintained . |
| 21 | The vernacular rules predict that dabble will be subject to backing — certainly not front-raising — and it is unlikely that this speaker is following the highly recessive rule for front-raising after velars in the item castle ( this has been largely abandoned by younger low-status speakers ) . |
| 22 | This may be viewed as a transition matrix mapping pre-tax income positions into post-tax positions ( Atkinson , 1979 ) , and it is unlikely that this matrix is diagonal . |
| 23 | Even though some expert clauses do not specifically reserve the right for the parties to make submissions or representations to the expert ( see 8.15 ) , it is unlikely that this right will be lost through its omission , because the expert will usually want to receive submissions or representations of some kind to help him understand the issue he has to determine . |
| 24 | It is unlikely that this rate would have been acceptable to all members . |
| 25 | It is unlikely that any river improved in the seventeenth , eighteenth and nineteenth centuries bears much relationship to its earlier regime . |
| 26 | In broad terms , it is unlikely that any Court will award the pursuer more than half the total damages which he is likely to recover . |
| 27 | Panorpa communis , for example , has been recorded to fly at only 0.5 metres per second whereas Aeshna mixta can move at 7 metres per second and it is unlikely that any insect exceeds about twice this velocity . |
| 28 | It is unlikely that any company would find it an economic proposition to make all the components it embodies in its products . |
| 29 | It is unlikely that any company would find it an economic proposition to make all the components it embodies in its products . |
| 30 | In well ventilated theatres it is unlikely that any colour change will occur unless accidental spillage should take place . |