Example sentences of "[adv] unlikely that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , it seems extremely unlikely that predictable technology will be equipped to amass large quantities of antimatter . |
| 2 | Unless safeguards of pension rights are written into the Bill now , it is extremely unlikely that those rights will be safeguarded subsequently . |
| 3 | ‘ It is something required by the highway authority and is purely a legal classification ’ , he said , and ‘ it is extremely unlikely that any roads used as public paths would ever be considered as anything else than they are now ’ said Mr. Higerty . |
| 4 | In this study , sulphate reducing bacteria must have been absent , or their activities limited in the non-methanogenic samples tested , because it is highly unlikely that methanogenic bacteria will displace sulphate reducing bacteria for this mutual growth substrate given an adequate supply of electron acceptor ( sulphate ) . |
| 5 | Leelo Ross , a large woman who claims Lancastrian origins ( although it seemed highly unlikely that black pudding could be blamed on her proportions ) gave the audience an insight into among other things the ‘ Modern Jewish Woman ’ including driving Jewish style ; and the laconic Dembina delved deep to prove that even the most serious of subjects could be a source of humour . |
| 6 | If society in all its aspects has always been in a state of flux , it is highly unlikely that this process will end at any particular time . |
| 7 | It is highly unlikely that any consultancy you appoint will know enough about a company to allow it to undertake the audit without considerable input from your senior management . |
| 8 | It lacked industrial power , but alienated its neighbour and allies alike by attempting to rectify this ; it failed to maintain a democratic government , yet under the circumstances it was highly unlikely that any state could have done so . |
| 9 | It is highly unlikely that any reader of this sentence will interpret rare in the sense of ‘ undercooked ’ ( as in a rare steak ) , or steep in the sense of ‘ unjustifiably high ’ ( as in steep charges ) , or bank in the sense of ‘ financial institution ’ , or burn in the sense of ‘ injury caused by fire ’ , or run in the sense of ‘ progress by advancing each foot alternately never having both feet on the ground simultaneously ’ , etc . |
| 10 | I would suggest that it is highly unlikely that sufficient numbers of Timbury type continuing care units will be provided . |
| 11 | It had , at first , seemed totally unlikely that this bunch of ugly Northern oiks would ever make it in America , but they 're starting to make perfect sense . |
| 12 | It is deeply unlikely that any batsman will ever again score 3,000 runs in first-class matches in an English season , as 28 batsmen did between 1899 and 1961 . |
| 13 | However , it is also unlikely that any company will draw up an agreement from scratch . |
| 14 | And it is ecologically unlikely that vegetarian dinosaurs arrived because of growing predatory competition among reptiles , paramammals and mammals for live prey . |
| 15 | It is most unlikely that such behaviour had never previously been observed with comparably simple systems . |
| 16 | Given the current recognition system , it is most unlikely that such examples will occur in this form . |
| 17 | It will be most unlikely that serious errors will be made , providing that adequate records have been kept and that these are accessible to those needing them . |
| 18 | No academic libraries since the time of the Travelling Workshops Experiment have successfully applied the strategy and it is most unlikely that illuminative evaluation ‘ in toto ’ will ever get the opportunity to prove itself in academic user education , largely because of the lack of time to pursue it in full . |
| 19 | ( It is most unlikely that any user noticed that there were two systems the terminals were labelled identically and the screen layouts were the same . |
| 20 | As far as any remedy in damages is concerned this point will not be of any significance and it is most unlikely that any action would be brought in a business secrets case unless some damage or advantage to a competitor had occurred or was thought likely to do so . |
| 21 | The police have been criticised for their low prosecution record in rape cases and it is most unlikely that domestic rape would have been dealt with more enthusiastically . |
| 22 | However , given the developments both in the United Kingdom and elsewhere over the last few years , it is now unlikely that this course will be taken . |
| 23 | We regard it as unlikely that many teachers in the near future will be able to handle facilities of this range and power amid the pressures of the classroom . |
| 24 | It 's pretty unlikely that this session will ever see the light of day on Strange Fruit , as the label 's last Wah release ‘ The Mighty Wah ’ proved about as popular as a motorway scheme through Kew Gardens . |
| 25 | Because iron structural members were used in circumstances where great strength was required , it is very unlikely that serious defects , such as could affect timber or masonry before they become unsafe , can arise without causing collapse . |
| 26 | It is very unlikely that future generations will exhibit this particular demographic characteristic . |
| 27 | Er erm July , er June is erm , according to Chris 's seasonality figures , normally about erm twelve percent higher than the mean , erm so if they 'll take the mean at about , at being about three hundred and fifty , you know we 're looking at a figure of somewhere just over four hundred for July , as opposed to last July which was erm I think five er four hundred and ninety four complaints in the month , so it 's very unlikely that that output figure will continue going up next month . |
| 28 | It is , however , very unlikely that two authors with the same initials would be working within the field of Scottish geology , or of any other small , restricted field of knowledge , so that the figures for related papers are still likely to be reasonably accurate in these cases . |
| 29 | It is , however , very unlikely that two authors with the same initials would be working within the field of Scottish geology , or of any other small , restricted field of knowledge , so that the figures for related papers are still likely to be reasonably accurate in these cases . |
| 30 | It is very unlikely that this change in income could lead to a greater budget than that which emerges when there is a lump-sum grant from the central government . |