Example sentences of "[am/are] likely [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With amateurs there 's no point in paying , they 're likely to kill the victim off anyway , out of fear . |
| 2 | They may they 're likely to miss the date altogether . |
| 3 | ‘ From what Superintending Constable Aplin 's been telling me along the way , if we can solve one , we 're likely to find the perpetrator of the other . |
| 4 | Too small and you 're likely to compress the filling and lose loft , too large and the bellows action of air as you move about in the bag will ensure you never keep a nice layer of still warm air around you , essential to keep you cosy . |
| 5 | That 's that 's where we 're likely to drop the clanger . |
| 6 | But where Cluster Analysis can show the existence of sufficiently large groupings of respondents , or product/benefit requirements which have similar attribute sets , then these may be used as MARKETING TARGETS , if the benefits of selling into them are likely to exceed the cost . |
| 7 | The 12 electricity distribution companies are likely to test the market by seeking buyers for 20 p.c. of their holding in National Grid . |
| 8 | While it can be assumed that routine bookkeeping and other financial support services are readily available , questions of profit-making and pricing are likely to cause the surveyor difficulties . |
| 9 | The basic political conflicts which are likely to decide the fate of the world today have little to do with nation-states , because for half a century there has not existed an international state system of the 19th- century European type , but an essentially bi-polar world organised round two superpowers . |
| 10 | Evidence of the European Commission experts that strategic alliance between cities are likely to form the basis of future business links . |
| 11 | This year women are likely to take the place of foreign cosmonauts in the third ‘ researcher-cosmonaut ’ seat aboard the Soyuz-T spacecraft , which makes periodic 8-day visits to the manned station . |
| 12 | Media products and gadgetry on the near-horizon are likely to shift the stance of the average individual from one of passivity before a television set to one of activity when faced with ‘ Total Vision ’ . |
| 13 | Mr Wilmot 's six assistant chief constables are likely to join the boycott in November . |
| 14 | DERBY v CRYSTAL PALACE Derby , still without Cross ( knee ) , are likely to retain the team who beat Cambridge 5-0 in the Littlewoods Cup . |
| 15 | Whereupon it was resolved : ‘ That the Society will consult the good of the Community in general and of the limits of the Society in particular , by encouraging such means as are likely to promote the study of farriery on rational scientific principles . |
| 16 | In the short term , the full indexation of excise duties and the introduction of the poll tax are likely to push the inflation rate to 9% in April . |
| 17 | But , given the meticulous planning now undertaken by terrorists on both sides , the potential for operations going disastrously wrong means siege situations are likely to remain the exception to the rule . |
| 18 | Do you fear that adolescence is a period when you are likely to lose the closeness , the affection and the degree of parental control that is desirable in your relationship with your son or daughter ? |
| 19 | problems which are likely to affect the test schedule seriously , and |
| 20 | What the court must do therefore is take into account all the relevant factors and consider how they affect or are likely to affect the child . |
| 21 | During the normal course of events people move , die , drop out of sight or get involved in other things , and such events are likely to affect the panel subjects . |
| 22 | At this time too there are relationships to be forged with employers and co-workers and , since such a large part of life is spent at the workplace , the good or bad effects of such relationships are likely to affect the individual 's home life too . |
| 23 | Local circumstances and availability of personnel and resources are likely to affect the organization of such services as much as any policy statement about the care of patients . |
| 24 | It may be that with adequate supervision and a period of reorientation it will not take very long to prepare yourself for a new role , but do take care to acknowledge your limitations , and to make known to your manager how these are likely to affect the care you give . |
| 25 | The financial guarantees and direct support provided by most Member States to their nationalised companies are likely to affect the impact of many of the ‘ competition Directives ’ , however well-meaning these may be . |
| 26 | For example , Goreau and de Mello ( 1988 ) have shown that deforestation in Amazonia has appreciably altered the fluxes of carbon dioxide , nitrous oxide and methane from denuded soils to such an extent that they are likely to exacerbate the greenhouse effect , and thus mitigating measures should be undertaken which involve rainforest conservation as well as controls on combustion sources . |
| 27 | These Regulations , which are now in force , are made under s 4(2) ( c ) of the 1992 Act and set out names which are likely to mislead the public in terms of the status of the charity . |
| 28 | Boro are likely to ask the Football League to postpone next Tuesday 's rearranged home game against Barnsley . |
| 29 | With regard to the board itself , its ‘ group dynamics ’ are likely to inhibit the instigation of disciplinary action against insiders : it is common for personal relationships between the directors and other senior managers to be such that they will stand together as a team and only consider removing one of their number in situations of obvious incapacity or wrong-doing . |
| 30 | NEW boys Durham are likely to lead the chase for sacked Lancashire pair Graeme Fowler and Paul Allott . |