Example sentences of "be likely [to-vb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this happens at night , go to ground , shelter yourself as best you can and go looking for help the next day unless you 're likely to freeze to death in the meantime . |
| 2 | In view of his assessment of the damage that they are likely to cause to employment in this country , will he say under which article of the treaty of Rome they have been proposed ? |
| 3 | Contract negotiations between the trust and consortium , which pays for patient care in the area , have reached deadlock and are likely to go to arbitration . |
| 4 | Almost 80 per cent of Tory voters say they are unlikely to change parties if the NHS plans go ahead , but 70 per cent believe the proposals are likely to lead to privatisation of the NHS , with 62 per cent seeing the changes leading to worse standards of care and treatment . |
| 5 | It is particularly noteworthy that outpatient referrals to the surgical specialties increased as outpatient referrals to these specialties are likely to lead to inpatient admissions for elective surgical procedures which could incur a substantial charge on the practice budget . |
| 6 | In short , the lowered or lost earnings of many women care-givers are likely to lead to poverty and to increased financial dependency — on a spouse , on an earning sibling , or on the person being cared for . |
| 7 | What I and my friends put down to evil witchcraft , my enemies are likely to attribute to incompetence or bad management . |
| 8 | The persistently troublesome problems and the large spot discharges are the pollutions which are likely to come to agency attention . |
| 9 | I 'm likely to have to remainder Richie Quick before I get to your missing prisoner . ’ |
| 10 | More would be likely to take to heart Samuel Smiles 's advice to look their affairs in the face . |
| 11 | Such conditions would be likely to lead to absence from work . |
| 12 | A study by Wing and Brown ( 1970 ) suggested that people with schizophrenia were likely to respond to understimulation by withdrawal and regression . |
| 13 | One faintly ludicrous example is a 1993 case where the Court of Appeal said that a sentence passed on a Mr Fairman would ‘ indicate to other people who might be minded to set fire to armchairs in the middle of a domestic row that if they do , they were likely to go to prison for as long as two years ’ . |
| 14 | Until then , having to provide a system of education which is nominally continuous but in terms of reality , disconnected and without knowing the full extent of its effects , is likely to lead to misunderstanding and tension . |
| 15 | Alternatively , it may only be when family relationships are poor that the inherited predisposition is likely to lead to schizophrenia . |
| 16 | The phrase " similar " is likely to lead to difficulty . |
| 17 | The assumption that they do not know how to run their house properly , or how to feed their families , or manage their money , is likely to lead to rejection . |
| 18 | The debate is , in other words , about whether the new technology is likely to lead to proletarianisation or professionalisation of workers . |
| 19 | Even when wrong answers are not accepted , the ‘ blind ’ alteration of bindings in response to implausibility is likely to lead to inefficiency , as reasoning can be expensive . |
| 20 | At best it is likely to lead to confusion as some people follow the new route and others hang on to the old one . |
| 21 | By section 12(1) of the Trade Marks Act 1938 , a mark will be refused registration if it is deceptive ; that is , if it is identical to or so similar to another mark already registered that it is likely to lead to confusion . |
| 22 | Neither is likely to return to action for many weeks . |
| 23 | Similarly , ‘ abuse of a dominant position ’ in Article 86 of EC law is likely to relate to advantage taken of monopolistic power in imposing terms . |
| 24 | One of them 's still alive but he 's likely to bleed to death . ’ |
| 25 | He objected to the stress the virtuosi laid on observation and experiment , on the grounds that it was likely to lead to atheism . |
| 26 | The Financial Times of Feb. 28 commented that the move was likely to add to inflation , already running at an annual rate in excess of 100 per cent . |