Example sentences of "[adv] likely [to-vb] the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , it is a recognized fact that a child who has been regularly beaten by one or both of his parents is extremely likely to inflict the same violence on his own children . |
| 2 | The DAF workers are less likely to attract the same sort of gritty sympathy that the miners have done . |
| 3 | Consequently , any measure which seeks to strengthen central influence on the curriculum and to weaken teachers ' autonomy in curriculum matters is still likely to evince the same suspicion and hostility with which teachers responded to ‘ payment by results ’ . |
| 4 | Parents who themselves behave in a responsible way towards their children , making it a habit to keep them informed of their whereabouts and accounting for their own actions , are more likely to receive the same consideration in return . |
| 5 | The difficulty is that we are quite likely to pick the same herd twice and if that were to happen we would have to sample it twice . |