Example sentences of "[is] [adv] likely that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 A survey will be carried out of sewage disposal systems and it is highly likely that major expenditure will be necessary .
3 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 ’ .
4 Near Roman towns , it is highly likely that original churches were founded as mausolea or temples in graveyards outside the Roman settlement proper .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 It is much likelier that Albanian gunmen killed them .
11 It is more likely that other factors , as yet unrecognised , are important .
12 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 .
13 However , it is also likely that other factors , as yet unrecognised , are important .
14 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 .
15 It is quite likely that qualified privilege would not apply here as there is no duty , as part of the teacher 's work , to compile an informal , unofficial record .
16 But if the necessary very gentle offshore gradient can be produced on any type of shoreline it is quite likely that offshore bars may form .
17 Over recent years imports and exports have been vested with great political and cultural-ideological significance , and it is very likely that increasing numbers of consumers now register the country of origin of what they are buying , and producers now register the destination of what they are producing , and this knowledge may affect their actions .
18 In practice , the issues may never be put to the test because it is very likely that other parties would succeed in preventing referenda , but it is still enough of a departure for some evangelical DUP activists to have been initially opposed to the change .
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