Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [verb] [adv] likely " in BNC.

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1 In future it seems quite likely that there may be pressure from the Training Commission for a test or certificate of attainment specifically for those working on the TVEI , and that certificate might overlap with the Certificate of Pre-vocational Education .
2 For example it seems very likely that pragmatic considerations including economic ones have played their part in the expansion of the parole system ( see Chapter 6 ) .
3 Although there were suggestions that Ashraf may have had a hand in the affair it seems more likely that the Shah dalliance with another women was the real cause . "
4 After twenty years of struggle it seemed less likely to liberate any part of Palestine than it had in 1967 .
5 In context it seems more likely that it was his impatient response to Lipchitz 's well-intentioned nannying .
6 In fact it seems more likely that Picasso felt that the Demoiselles as he decided to accept or leave it represented a truly astonishing challenge with which he himself must come to terms ; obviously if he had been dissatisfied with the look of the painting he would not have left it as it is , and it has been argued that the stylistic discrepancies within the painting are essential to its iconography , to the message which it is intended to convey .
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