Example sentences of "[is] likely [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a proposed merger is likely to lead to the merged firms having a market share greater than one quarter or alternatively involves assets in excess of £30 million , then it may be referred to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission . |
| 2 | It has been found that well-informed patients are less anxious and the nurse can help by explaining what is likely to happen in the pre- , peri- and post-Operative periods . |
| 3 | I have n't argued morality , I 've tried to argue what is likely to happen in the Middle East as a result of the war . |
| 4 | Now of that hundred and twenty five thousand revenue spending which would be coming out of County Council to match what is likely to happen in the five B programme , most of that , most of that is on economic development activities , now the kind of way we can find that money without going to the authorities and asking for growth funding , because this Committee has not asked for any and that is not common in all the committees in the Council , is actually by finding it out of things like our monies , and other projects , actually funding it yourself as a Committee , funding the ability to draw in European money into Shropshire . |
| 5 | If something goes wrong , they do n't know what they are going to have to pay because if I 'm a pension fund manager now , I do n't know what is likely to happen in the next year which is going call on me for compensation . |
| 6 | As a result , Uzzell reckons that the market is likely to polarise over the next few years . |
| 7 | Neither the figure of Farrakhan nor that of Gadaffi is likely to appeal to the ethnocentric constituency , whose votes the National Front has traditionally sought . |
| 8 | This is likely to commence in the third week of September . |
| 9 | The duplication encompasses at least several tens of kilobases and is likely to extend beyond the immediate boundaries defined by the YAC clones yA4C5 and yA136E7 . |
| 10 | Wellord ( 1979 ) suggests that work on the shop-floor is likely to peak in the thirties — those in their twenties lack experience and social skills , those in their forties are beginning to notice the effect of sensory changes and are less tolerant of fast or very heavy physical work . |
| 11 | After all , salesforce personnel are in close contact with the people who actually make up the market , and ought to have the most detailed knowledge about how it is likely to behave in the near future . |
| 12 | That is a valid view , but we believe that the internal market is likely to exist for the foreseeable future and that we should try to make it work as well as possible . |
| 13 | A bit late : the bank 's growth in lending , and therefore its leverage , except in a few countries like China , Vietnam and Argentina , is likely to slow in the coming years . |
| 14 | This proportion is likely to fall in the current year as builders move from buying to renting plant . |
| 15 | Conversely , if people believe that the exchange rate is likely to fall in the near future , they will economize on their holdings of sterling , preferring to hold their liquid assets in some other currency — the one most likely to appreciate against other currencies . |
| 16 | That rich mixture is likely to continue into the next election , because already it has been announced that the prospective parliamentary candidates for the Thanet , South seat in the next election will include a Mr. William Pitt and the leader of the Corrective party , Miss Whiplash . |
| 17 | Since this situation is likely to continue for the foreseeable future , professional social workers and social work educators need to modify their profession-centred view of service provision in order to make the best use of available personnel . |
| 18 | Residential homes and hospitals cater for only a minority of dementia sufferers and this situation is likely to continue for the foreseeable future . |
| 19 | In this environment , which is likely to continue for the foreseeable future , our objective is to build a business which is profitable even at low oil prices and which will show a rate of growth commensurate with the forecast rise in our production and cash flow . |
| 20 | If the absence continues to a fourth day , at that time , you or some other person acting on your behalf , must notify the Divisional/Section Head of the continuing absence and whether the period of absence is likely to continue beyond the seventh day . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , informal care by families faces considerable pressure at present and this is likely to intensify during the 1990s . |
| 22 | Competition is likely to intensify with the main participants — Northern Dairies , Unigate , the Danish MD foods and the Co-op — all fighting to maintain their market share . |
| 23 | Well , th , the definition of a terminal illness as regards that is , according to the underwriters , is that the client 's life is likely to die in the next twelve months . |
| 24 | The supply of hours is likely to depend on the standard real wage , the overtime real wage and workers ’ preferences for income and leisure . |
| 25 | Private borrowing is likely to rise by the same amount and may rise by even more if the privatised company is able to borrow freely from the market rather than relying on the government . |
| 26 | A high-end deskside Model 755 sitting above the existing Model 750 is likely to come with the same 100MHz 7100 processor as the 735 , but with expanded memory , disk and other peripheral options . |
| 27 | With out-of-sorts Tony Jones his first-round opponent over 19 frames on Monday , Wattana 's moment of truth is likely to come in the second round when he will almost certainly face favourite Stephen Hendry , the world No 1 , over 25 frames . |
| 28 | The R&A 's next challenge is likely to come from the golf-equipment manufacturers . |
| 29 | However , this being said , the trend towards concentration of capital is very rapid in the industry and this is likely to increase in the near future . |
| 30 | But an evolutionary decrease in the rate of ageing in humans is likely to occur over the next few generations . |