Example sentences of "it [verb] unlikely that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite these cautionary remarks , it appears unlikely that union power will revive as soon as the economic climate improves . |
| 2 | ‘ It appears unlikely that interest rates will fall quickly , so there is no need to rush to invest . ’ |
| 3 | Until the status of teaching improves in the medical profession it seems unlikely that doctors in training will choose to make the efforts necessary to acquire teaching skills . |
| 4 | On the whole , it seems unlikely that Knossos ' territory extended only half-way to Arkhanes , only 8 kilometres to the south of Knossos . |
| 5 | It seems unlikely that experience can take us outside of the closed circle of experience to reveal that upon which experience — experience in general , rather than particular experience — is based . |
| 6 | It seems unlikely that William Joyce would not have known it at the same time . |
| 7 | It seems unlikely that variations of this magnitude will prove to be correlated with need or deprivation . |
| 8 | It seems unlikely that Minkowski would have come across Smith 's earlier work directly , but he may have seen the reference to them in a paper of Ferdinand Frobenius , which appeared in the main German mathematical journal shortly before the competition was announced . |
| 9 | Perhaps , as with the Abyssinian episode , public opinion might have been sufficient to temporarily deflect the leaders of the National government from their chosen course , but it seems unlikely that Chamberlain 's government would have been so easily , or temporarily , blown off the course of appeasement . |
| 10 | Desirable though it may be , it seems unlikely that texts on specifically chemical aspects of economics will be developed . |
| 11 | On current form , it seems unlikely that Oag is stringing anyone along . |
| 12 | But it seems unlikely that decline will be halted without change . |
| 13 | Although the measure of schema-consistency from these studies is not compelling , it seems unlikely that schema theory could provide an adequate explanation of the sensitivity results that were obtained . |
| 14 | At least the politicians who told the story can hardly have believed it , and it seems unlikely that people swallowed whole everything that they were told by their masters in antiquity , any more than they do now . |
| 15 | Second , it seems unlikely that Africanus is making a bid for the words acceptis centum to be construed as establishing a trust in all circumstances . |
| 16 | It is evident that Ollier ( 1981 ) , although making a plea for a more evolutionary geomorphology , does not cite the quantitatively expressed geophysical research and it seems unlikely that geomorphology can contribute in such areas unless it is willing to adopt the methods and language of other practitioners . |
| 17 | The law is still unclear on the legal rights of human fertilised ova ( zygotes ) and even foetuses , so that it seems unlikely that animals will have legal rights for many years . |
| 18 | It seems unlikely that monogamy is a natural state for the human animal . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , it seems unlikely that humans enjoy a privileged protection from cancer viruses not shared by the rest of the animal kingdom . |
| 20 | Although a recent constitutional amendment protected a new government from a motion of no confidence during the first 18 months of its existence , it appeared unlikely that Wingti 's new government would be strong enough to break the country 's traditional pattern of politics by becoming the first since independence to survive from one general election to the next . |