Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] unlikely that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But defence analysts say it 's unlikely that Iraq would acquire the new missile . |
| 2 | And it 's unlikely that Chas 's grandfather got much out of the British Empire beyond , in all probability , two or three years spent serving as a soldier in India , two or three years off the dole queue . |
| 3 | It 's unlikely that Mrs Bottomley will step in to save Standish , unless there 's a major change in Government policy . |
| 4 | We also have concerns about how it could erm fit in to er the countryside erm of the area er with particular reference to erm paragraph thirty three of P P G three which states that erm the net effect of any new settlement will be to enhance the environmental cause only modest environmental impact , the area in Hambledon , as Mr Wincup outlined yesterday erm is occupied essentially by the vale of York , it 's an essentially flat and rolling landscape , er the intensification of agriculture 's produced a very open landscape erm in that area erm there are few erm landscape elements to reduce into visibility , erm there are no significant areas of derelict land which could be , which would be reclaimed or enhanced erm by a new settlement , erm and the Council believes that it would be very difficult to assimilate a new settlement into this landscape , and it would be er visible over extensive areas , to touch on erm the point raised by erm the panel about self sufficiency and self containment erm I think it 's recognized in the explanatory memorandum , erm to policy H two that a new settlement will need to maintain social and economic links with a city , erm perhaps from some , this statement is explicit that erm York will continue to exert considerable influence in terms of employment , social , and community links , erm and it 's unlikely that facilities which have provided a new settlement will divert much , if an , if er any , erm of this er demand for travel . |
| 5 | H.D. , nicknamed ‘ the Hama-dryad ’ , is the subject of much high-spirited comedy in the letters that Ezra and Dorothy exchanged , and this ought to provoke second thoughts in those who want to take Hilda 's account at face-value : H.D. may have honestly persuaded herself that she was the great ( though virginal ) love of Pound 's life , but it 's unlikely that Pound thought so , nor need we . |
| 6 | On that , I think it is generally known , that we , that Telford was n't anywhere near the top of the list , and it had been taken purely on the question of the er , needs of the various areas , it 's unlikely that Telford would have succeeded , even with its reduced geographical area , but I made discrete enquiries and was told that the factor which tipped er , the Commission in favour of Telford , and this has an important bearing on what we 're going to discuss later , was the fact that Telford has been very good in taking up schemes and providing their section , and not just the Wreakin District Council , other area , other bodies in Telford , of getting good innovative schemes off the ground and providing the cash , they did n't , as some areas did , get the status , and then hardly do anything about it . |
| 7 | It is unlikely that Boris Yeltsin would be implementing those reforms if we had jumped the gun , as the Opposition wanted . |
| 8 | It is unlikely that anti-Semitism was as powerful in its motivational force for recruits in the Party 's ‘ mass phase ’ after 1929–30 as it had been for the early activist core of the NSDAP . |
| 9 | It is unlikely that Weaver 's views in 1982 were significantly different from those he held when he was involved in creating that binary policy in the mid-1960s , and it is likely that his arguments reflect one of the elements in the decisions made . |
| 10 | While it is unlikely that Dom Pérignon himself employed such methods , it is more than probable that others did . |
| 11 | It is unlikely that miners will be asked to work Saturday shifts this summer , reports The Northern Echo . |
| 12 | It is unlikely that Patrick will come here and wait for the Plantagenet . |
| 13 | It is unlikely that IT managers will wish to migrate such large amounts of dead material across computer systems . |
| 14 | However , if a small company does n't provide for any one of these operations , it is unlikely that company can give its artists adequate service . |
| 15 | It is unlikely that music will receive the same emphasis or resources as the ‘ core ’ subjects of English , Mathematics and Science in most schools , in spite of its designation as a ‘ foundation ’ subject . |
| 16 | But , as Tass concluded : ‘ It is unlikely that residents of Voronezh could have read the magazine . ’ |
| 17 | Moreover it is unlikely that respondents would have either the time or experience to make a thorough appraisal of the information presented in the leaflet . |
| 18 | Perhaps not the literal truth ( it is unlikely that Jane Eyre , the unloved orphan , should come into a fortune and gain mastery over Rochester who was once her master or that Pip should be ‘ raised from his station ’ by a mysterious benefactor , who turns out to be Magwitch , the convict he once fed ) , but what Henry James called ‘ the truth of the imagination ’ . |
| 19 | It is unlikely that Nizan was entirely duped , for example , by the Stalinist purges and Moscow trials that were to occur from 1935 . |
| 20 | For those not already convinced , it is unlikely that Lenin 's argument persuaded them . |
| 21 | For example , it is unlikely that Lee v Griffin ( 1861 ) 1 B & S 272 would be followed today . |
| 22 | Since the Royal Commission on Population found that out of a sample of 7,625 pregnancies only 147 resulted in criminal abortions ( equal to 2 per cent of all pregnancies and 17 per cent of all abortions ) , it is unlikely that changes in the abortion rate played a major part in accounting for the decrease in working class fertility . |
| 23 | If there had been no political factor in the equation , it is unlikely that Profumo would have been ruined in the way he was and tortured for years by a newspaper interest which has survived until the present day . |
| 24 | Although it is unlikely that Members will be asked to vote on conversion until some time in 1989 I am writing this letter to give an early indication of the main reasons for the recommendation . |
| 25 | It is unlikely that editors will bother to rewrite the relatively small stories which are the bread-and-butter material of most media relations programmes . |
| 26 | For the remaining 80% of winters , it is unlikely that doubling of CO 2 will suppress the occurrence of a stratospheric warming sufficiently to produce an Arctic ozone hole , although even in these conditions ozone depletion could be enhanced . |
| 27 | In formal situations roles can clearly give people special rights , but even in conversation — where according to our definition unequal power is suspended — it is unlikely that knowledge of participants ' social office or status will be wholly forgotten . |
| 28 | However , it is unlikely that biologists will be misunderstood when they apply the term to animals . |
| 29 | After the death of Glanville , Benedict de Sanctum succeeded to the see of Rochester , the interdict having been removed from the Kingdom , but within a year King John was besieging Rochester Castle , the surrounding countryside was looted , and it is unlikely that Halling , having a Palace of the Bishop would have escaped . |
| 30 | It is unlikely that employers did pick your school . |