Example sentences of "be likely [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It contains everything you 're likely to need for the minor emergency . |
| 2 | Now this is a problem er because if you do n't sharply define your objectives and if you do n't know what you need to achieve them , then you 're likely to stumble into the possibility of an uncontrolled war e even into a total war whereas the original objective was not in fact er as serious er as , as er as that . |
| 3 | Could you please give some indication as to when you 're likely to respond to the letter sent to you on the twelve of the first nineteen ninety three ? |
| 4 | Let me just point out to you that last year if you remember they asked you to describe the the passage where Jesus is crucified , that 's 1521 to 31 and I guess they wo n't do that again this year , but they 're likely to pick on a significant passage , significant section then you 're asked to relate it relate the passage at the end of Mark 's Gospel where Jesus is crucified . |
| 5 | The New York Times 's Vincent Canby wrote : ‘ There is nothing obviously glossy in Midnight Cowboy , but it contains a lot of superior laughter that has the same softening effect , ’ yet he found the central relationship was ‘ as honest and affecting as anything you 're likely to see in a movie , and more than compensates for those moments when the film seems to be exploiting its cheap , gaudy locale as might the director of a sight-seeing bus cruising through West 42nd Street and Greenwich Village ’ . |
| 6 | The thing is , they 're likely to come on the market quite soon . |
| 7 | ‘ Please yourself But it 's the best offer you 're likely to get in a long time . ’ |
| 8 | As in any software , there are bits here and there that could do with a polish , but , overall , Mainlan GTI for Windows does everything you 're likely to want in a small network environment . |
| 9 | If the offeror wishes to make a recommended bid , then the negotiations over price are likely to proceed in the same way as for any other business acquisition . |
| 10 | Enthusiasm can spur one on to cram the border full of as many herbs as possible , but some of them are likely to die as a result , and others will be tall and weedy ; it is far better to plant with spaces between them to start with , allowing them room to grow to their full size so that their growth habit and leaf value can be made the most of in the context of the overall design . |
| 11 | Realistically , however , only a limited number of employers are likely to agree to a potentially costly and open-ended liability of that sort . |
| 12 | In this area , market forces are likely to decide between the various competing standards before official bodies make up their minds . |
| 13 | Law and order departs from the Justice Model markedly in its attitude to due process : if anything it disap-proves of excessive procedural safeguards on the grounds that they are likely to act as an obstacle to ensuring offenders receive their just deserts . |
| 14 | Secondly , directors and managers have interests or aspirations which differ from those of the members , and hence their objectives are likely to diverge from the goal of maximising profits . |
| 15 | Such passages to us seem prophetic of industry tactics we are likely to see in the 1990s . |
| 16 | This road takes you through what I would say was the most savage landscape you are likely to see in the Pyrenees without actually setting off into the mountains on foot , a valley which has rocks where other valleys have trees . |
| 17 | Now commuting is a consequence of human nature to a large extent , people choose to live away from their place of work and if they do choose to live away from their place of work then we 'll need a much more authoritarian government than we are likely to see in the next ten or twenty years to stop people from living away from their place of work . |
| 18 | Peter Gilroy , deputy director at Kent SSD , said : ‘ Research shows if you leave elderly people 's needs simply with personal care and do n't take into account their anxiety about their home , they are likely to go into a spiral of decline . ’ |
| 19 | But in reality these are likely to go with the US firm to DRT . |
| 20 | You can also check er , and this this is a tiny percentage , those that are likely to go to a report . |
| 21 | Overall , clients are likely to go to the executive search firm they feel most comfortable with , which has the most appropriate range of experience and is closest to the image of the type of people they wish to recruit . |
| 22 | About 10 per cent of the new jobs are likely to go to the self-employed , most of them coming from the ranks of those already in employment . |
| 23 | Two foot square strips are likely to go for a fiver a sod and will be accompanied by certificates of authenticity from manager Mick McCarthy . |
| 24 | Based on a study of fifteen abandoned sites in the Paragominas region south of Belém , each of which experienced varying degrees of land-use intensity , Buschbacher et al. have shown that only those sites where low- and medium-intensity use were practised are likely to return to a forest cover . |
| 25 | Moreover , for geographic reasons the strategic benefits of Cam Ranh Bay in peacetime are likely to turn into a liability during war . |
| 26 | Despite the bizarre method being used , dozens of foreign companies are likely to bid for the rare chance to invade a new broadcasting market . |
| 27 | The greater the identity in cultural forms , both qualitatively and quantitatively , the more they are likely to derive from a single common source . |
| 28 | Will the Minister now tell the House how many local magistrates courts he estimates are likely to close as a result of the Government 's new funding policy ? |
| 29 | Some schools are likely to close as a result of a decision by teachers to strike in protest at plans to shed a hundred and fifty jobs in Gloucestershire . |
| 30 | Gershuny 's conclusion is that as new technology continues to be introduced we are likely to move to a ‘ dual economy ’ in which there would still be a formal sector of the economy , where there was much use of high technology , a continuing drive for efficiency , and the production of standardised goods , but this sector would increasingly concentrate on the production of consumer durables — in essence capital goods for use in the home . |