Example sentences of "[is] likely that [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your article is indeed timely as it is likely that financial support by the Irish government for research will be significantly reduced from its already low level . |
| 2 | It is likely that computerized storage and retrieval facilities will take on an increasing importance in literary studies ; so it is worth exploring them whenever you can . |
| 3 | α-granule nucleoids have been demonstrated by electronmicroscopic studies in the canalicular system ( White , 1974 ) , and it is likely that normal secretion involves not only fusion of these granules with the canalicular system but also platelet contraction . |
| 4 | With students who are inexperienced in investigating , it is likely that frequent discussion may be necessary . |
| 5 | It is likely that chronic insulin treatment is necessary to allow endothelial cell loss or damage to be repaired ( Harrison et al , 1980 ) . |
| 6 | If the person seems likely to overreact to the abuse or insults , and to use more force than he is entitled to employ , then it is likely that unlawful violence will be used , and the offence is committed . |
| 7 | Indeed , it is likely that cross-domain recognition is constrained by the coverage of a particular dictionary . |
| 8 | Although a group of children or adults may read the same text , it is likely that each person will gain a different ‘ reading ’ and will respond to the shared text in different ways . |
| 9 | It is likely that such evidence would show up ethnic and cultural variations ; for example , Anwar reports that it is common for migrants from Pakistan to borrow money from kin for major purchases such as a house or a business , but there is a strong obligation to return this loan fully and quickly ( Anwar , 1985 , p. 72 ) . |
| 10 | Now although in evolutionary terms , given the amounts of genetic variability usually at hand , it is likely that such behaviour has been arbitrary in the required sense ( witness Apis mellifera v. |
| 11 | whereby that person is likely to believe that such violence would be used or it is likely that such violence would be provoked . |
| 12 | ‘ whereby that person is likely to believe that such violence would be used or it is likely that such violence would be provoked ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ whereby that person is likely to believe that such violence would be used or it is likely that such violence would be provoked ’ The officer dealing and/or civilian witnesses could help prove this point by including in their evidence observations such as , ‘ The crowd of visiting football supporters were likely to believe they were going to be attacked ’ , or ‘ It was likely that the visiting supporters would lose their tempers and attack the home crowd ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ ( 1 ) A person is guilty of an offence if he — ( a ) uses towards another person threatening , abusive or insulting words or behaviour , or ( b ) distributes or displays to another person any writing , sign or other visible representation which is threatening , abusive or insulting , with intent to cause that person to believe that immediate unlawful violence will be used against him or another by any person , or to provoke the immediate use of unlawful violence by that person or another , or whereby that person is likely to believe that such violence will be used or it is likely that such violence will be provoked . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ whereby that person is likely to believe that such violence ( i.e. immediate unlawful violence against him or another ) will be used or it is likely that such violence will be provoked . ’ |
| 16 | If counter-demonstrators determined to thwart the right of a person to speak unpopular opinions resort to force as a result of what he is saying , the speaker is not for that reason alone to be regarded as using threatening , abusive or insulting words or behaviour ‘ whereby it is likely that such violence will be provoked . ’ |
| 17 | Otherwise it is likely that strategic analysis will rest on very shaky foundations . |
| 18 | It is likely that Central Branch will have the responsibility for organising overnight accommodation for NCT members wishing to stay over . |
| 19 | Moreover , with improved internal-management accounting practices , it is likely that external disclosure practices will also improve , to help combat concerns about the short-term biases of current accounting practices and stock-market pressures . |
| 20 | It is likely that most behaviour patterns are controlled by many more than two genes . |
| 21 | In terms of the unconscious choice of partner , and the unconscious covenant between partners which we described in Chapters 3 and 4 , it is likely that extreme envy marries the envy in the other , and the defence of splitting may well be used by the couple . |
| 22 | If you do n't perform then it is likely that another player will be brought in — and there will be some changes made . |
| 23 | In these early days of computer-based teaching units when there is very little effective material available , it is likely that any school with a computer will try to collect such material but then it will not necessarily reach all the relevant subject teachers ; the chance of getting to H2 and browsing through the program will then depend on communications within the school . |
| 24 | Coun Hedley added : ‘ It is likely that any upturn is 18 to 24 months away and any decisions on the future of the estate should be deferred until the position is clearer . ’ |
| 25 | On balance , therefore , despite the mother 's co-operation and her wish for improvement , it is likely that any rehabilitation plan would be likely to fail . |
| 26 | In addition , it is likely that morphometric analysis in the transjugular biopsies is subject to some degree of sampling error , which may obscure this relationship . |
| 27 | It is likely that immunosuppressive treatment of PSC may have some impact on coexisting ulcerative colitis , but this has never been studied . |
| 28 | It is difficult to identify this character in unsectioned skulls , but it is likely that some degree of airorhynchy is primitive for hominoids , greatly exaggerated in the pongine lineage and modified towards klinorhynchy in hominines , but as my observations lead me to believe that the bonobo is airorhynchous to some degree , it is difficult to be sure of the ancestral hominine character state . |
| 29 | It is likely that some degree of unity could have been achieved between them had not Mrs Webb become convinced that the division was irreconcilable and determined to make every effort to bring her proposals to fruition . |
| 30 | McCann suggests that the idea of having a march through the city centre to commemorate him was inspired by this desire to provoke the authorities ; but given the importance of the centenary , it is likely that some kind of parade would have been organised in any case . |