Example sentences of "[is] likely [to-vb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first place , the march of the multiples and diversification by travel operators themselves is likely to undermine the traditional relationships established between travel agents and operators . |
| 2 | Such a change is likely to affect the smaller businesses rather than the large companies . |
| 3 | Using an amp with a good speaker simulator is likely to give the best results , while there are various effects units with built-in speaker simulators . |
| 4 | The increased investigative powers contained in the latter piece of legislation is likely to give the regulatory authorities a greater degree of success in detecting insider abuse , however , the subjective elements of the substantive offence , as enshrined in the CSA 1985 , remain an onerous burden for the prosecution to discharge . |
| 5 | Mr Kinnock has to be protected from questions because he is likely to give the wrong answers , even about specific Labour policies he is supposed to know by heart . |
| 6 | ‘ Any suggestion that immigrants are being admitted on sufferance only , or that their range of choices , for example about where they live , is bring restricted , is likely to reinforce the unsettling effects of the move to a new environment which they will be making . ’ |
| 7 | It has been estimated that the real cost of an average package holiday was 16 per cent less in 1987 than 1980 , and this value for money is likely to keep the large groups well placed at the top of the market share listings . |
| 8 | His critics point out that the pardon has proved deeply unpopular and , to the extent that it is likely to encourage the armed forces to insist on a public vindication , could have the opposite effect . |
| 9 | As the metal-ligand bonding is likely to involve the very orbitals that are the lower levels in such transitions , the transition energies are greatly affected by the metal center , generally shifting to higher energy compared with those in the free ligand . |