Example sentences of "[is] [adv] unlikely that [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It is most unlikely that such behaviour had never previously been observed with comparably simple systems .
2 Given the current recognition system , it is most unlikely that such examples will occur in this form .
3 ( It is most unlikely that any user noticed that there were two systems the terminals were labelled identically and the screen layouts were the same .
4 As far as any remedy in damages is concerned this point will not be of any significance and it is most unlikely that any action would be brought in a business secrets case unless some damage or advantage to a competitor had occurred or was thought likely to do so .
5 It is highly unlikely that any consultancy you appoint will know enough about a company to allow it to undertake the audit without considerable input from your senior management .
6 It is highly unlikely that any reader of this sentence will interpret rare in the sense of ‘ undercooked ’ ( as in a rare steak ) , or steep in the sense of ‘ unjustifiably high ’ ( as in steep charges ) , or bank in the sense of ‘ financial institution ’ , or burn in the sense of ‘ injury caused by fire ’ , or run in the sense of ‘ progress by advancing each foot alternately never having both feet on the ground simultaneously ’ , etc .
7 If society in all its aspects has always been in a state of flux , it is highly unlikely that this process will end at any particular time .
8 Unless safeguards of pension rights are written into the Bill now , it is extremely unlikely that those rights will be safeguarded subsequently .
9 ‘ It is something required by the highway authority and is purely a legal classification ’ , he said , and ‘ it is extremely unlikely that any roads used as public paths would ever be considered as anything else than they are now ’ said Mr. Higerty .
10 It is deeply unlikely that any batsman will ever again score 3,000 runs in first-class matches in an English season , as 28 batsmen did between 1899 and 1961 .
11 However , it is also unlikely that any company will draw up an agreement from scratch .
12 However , given the developments both in the United Kingdom and elsewhere over the last few years , it is now unlikely that this course will be taken .
13 It 's pretty unlikely that this session will ever see the light of day on Strange Fruit , as the label 's last Wah release ‘ The Mighty Wah ’ proved about as popular as a motorway scheme through Kew Gardens .
14 It is very unlikely that any opposition party will win an election until it convinces the electorate that it has an economic policy which is internally coherent and a defence policy which measures up to its name .
15 But it is very unlikely that enough super-delegates , more than a quarter of whom have already endorsed Clinton , would gang up to deny him the title .
16 It is very unlikely that this change in income could lead to a greater budget than that which emerges when there is a lump-sum grant from the central government .
17 Er erm July , er June is erm , according to Chris 's seasonality figures , normally about erm twelve percent higher than the mean , erm so if they 'll take the mean at about , at being about three hundred and fifty , you know we 're looking at a figure of somewhere just over four hundred for July , as opposed to last July which was erm I think five er four hundred and ninety four complaints in the month , so it 's very unlikely that that output figure will continue going up next month .
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