Example sentences of "likely [to-vb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are likely to flower at different times and the effect will be untidy . |
| 2 | In the UK a study in 1970 found that people were twice as likely to continue with coitus interruptus than with the diaphragm and in 1974 the International Planned Parenthood Federation declared that this time-honoured method ‘ probably remains the most widely used of all on a global scale ’ . |
| 3 | The heavy rain was likely to continue in western parts of the country today . |
| 4 | If you g if you attend a nursery school , you 're less likely to fall into criminal ways than if you have n't attended a nursery school . |
| 5 | Although the need for fixed radio relay systems seems likely to remain at current levels in the foreseeable future , any diminution in spectrum availability will have to be compensated for . |
| 6 | Upstream , production in 1993 is likely to remain at current levels , as a series of new fields come into production and offset the older declining fields . |
| 7 | And it is less likely to slide on tight bends . |
| 8 | This makes creditors much less likely to agree to private work-outs . |
| 9 | Mr Ford also forecast that Railtrack , the proposed state-owned track authority , would be less likely to invest in improved services , because it would have no commercial incentive , and would concentrate only on safety . |
| 10 | You are much more likely to go for old pine , or oak , tough lacquer or vinyl — at least for several years , but there is no reason why these can not work just as well and create a feeling of their own . |
| 11 | The companies most likely to go to outside parties for this type of service are those who are best equipped internally . |
| 12 | A further 45 cases are likely to go to judicial review . |
| 13 | Even so , the decision of the 19th Palestine National Council in November 1988 to take this highly accommodationist road was not an easy one , and was only possible because it had become apparent that the world now recognized that no substantive peace negotiations were likely to materialize without formal PLO participation . |
| 14 | A number of independent research studies carried out in California , Massachusetts , Hawaii and London have shown that moderate drinkers have a lower mortality rate than total abstainers and are less likely to suffer from coronary disease . |
| 15 | Where you are likely to suffer from regular assaults , it may well be worth considering cladding part or all of you greenhouse with polycarbonate sheeting . |
| 16 | All horses are likely to suffer from internal parasites or ‘ worms ’ and should be regularly treated for them . |
| 17 | The two companies are likely to work on other management features such as the co-ordination of their Management Information Base for use on popular network management systems and the definition of a common network management database for their products . |
| 18 | Councillors have better educational qualifications and are more likely to work in non-manual occupations that the population at large . |
| 19 | The milk creates a more balanced bacterial environment in the gut , and children of six or seven who were breastfed as babies are less likely to succumb to urinary infections than their bottlefed brothers and sisters . |
| 20 | The paper argues that further education reforms are likely to meet with limited success and that the way to raise educational standards is to promote greater expectations of , and aspirations for , educational success . |
| 21 | The comparison will show how far politicians ' views reflect those of the citizens , and hence the extent to which policy is likely to meet with popular approval . |
| 22 | We have seen that a very important part of a gene 's environment is the other genes that it is likely to meet in successive bodies as the generations go by . |
| 23 | At the very least , conditioned inhibition training is likely to differ from latent inhibition training in that the former is likely to convey the information that a given event ( a given US ) will not occur whereas the latter could only convey that no event will occur . |
| 24 | Early evidence supporting psychiatric intervention came from non-randomized , retrospective studies ( Greer and Bagley 1971 ; Kennedy 1972 ) , and more work is required to establish which patients are likely to benefit from psychiatric care . |
| 25 | Many women with adverse living circumstances at the first interview will have had one or two psychiatric symptoms and would be particularly likely to benefit from social support . |
| 26 | Under the new hygiene regulations fryers are likely to come under close scrutiny because traditionally the job of cleaning them is one of the worst in the kitchen . |
| 27 | There is unlikely to be any advance in the accuracy of dating of early Anglo-Saxon archaeology in the near future whereas the assumptions upon which such dates are allowed are very likely to come under close scrutiny . |
| 28 | Firstly , to brief top management on the possibilities of AI ; although not likely to come into direct contact with AI they would be first to see the likely improvements in effectiveness and efficiency . |
| 29 | Professionals engaged in pre-school and early childhood education are likely to come from separate traditions and may have different perceptions as well as common goals . |
| 30 | Simple explanations are likely to come from ill-founded prejudice rather than from detailed analysis of the admittedly poor data which exist on this topic . |