Example sentences of "likely [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flu is most likely to affect you in the autumn and winter , e.g. from October to March . |
| 2 | Flu is most likely to affect you in the autumn and winter , e.g. from October to March . |
| 3 | Otherwise their existence might be a source of danger , for they had followings of their own which were likely to support them against the king in a political crisis . |
| 4 | A number of nurseries are offering it now , and you are likely to find it on the plant stalls of plantsmen 's gardens open to the public . |
| 5 | Charity 's friends were hardly likely to accept him on the strength of a short acquaintance with the nursery slopes at Wengen . |
| 6 | Only 40% are likely to pass it to the child . |
| 7 | Norris may well be right that Derrida deserves such attention , but he is not often likely to receive it in the conditions of actual pedagogy , or in the random public exchanges of higher cultural life , which put a premium on the simplifying and the reductive . |
| 8 | He 's as likely to feed you to the Gharrgoyles . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It is a pretty distinctive looking donkey and the person who has him is hardly likely to parade him around the countryside . |
| 10 | However , if your child does something , and as a result of his action something unpleasant happens to him , he is less likely to do it in the future ( the undesired behaviour may be reduced or eliminated ) . |
| 11 | They also get the largest amount of pocket money in a week — £5.20 , compared with a UK average of £3.62 — and are most likely to put it in the bank . |
| 12 | Bush , who had repeatedly stated his opposition to abortion under all but the most extreme circumstances , was known to oppose the bill , and was thought likely to veto it in the event of its enactment . |
| 13 | Plumbers refer to these as ‘ fifteen mil ’ , ‘ twenty-two mil ’ and ‘ twenty-eight mil ’ , but are equally likely to call them by the names of the premetrication pipes they replaced : ½in , ¾in and lin . |
| 14 | The cynics say you can only die once and either heart disease or cancer are likely to get you in the end . |
| 15 | I CA N'T think of anything more likely to get us through the pre-Christmas traumas than a new play by Don Hayworth . |
| 16 | ‘ They 're likely to charge him over the weekend , so Gerry was tipping me the wink there 's no story for us . |
| 17 | ‘ If you want a power-sharing executive , you are likely to blow it with the council , I said . |