Example sentences of "likely [to-vb] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The heavy rain was likely to continue in western parts of the country today . |
| 2 | Despite the end of the Cold War , military alliances seem likely to continue in some form — the Gulf War demonstrated the inability even of the United States to fund a medium-scale war unaided , and illustrated , again , the limitations to state autonomy . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Councillors have better educational qualifications and are more likely to work in non-manual occupations that the population at large . |
| 5 | In any case , not all Christians would accept that God 's mind is likely to work in this kind of way . |
| 6 | Fortunately there is a surprising repetitiveness about human nature : a good deal that has worked in one field is quite likely to work in another field . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | These differences are related to the wider patterns of drug use in society at large in which females are proportionately less likely to engage in recreational drug use then males , as this and a number of earlier studies show ( for example , Belle and Goldman 1980 ) . |
| 9 | The annual fees can change markedly from year to year and so the figures which follow , for the session 1993–94 , must be used only as an indication of the minimum likely to apply in later sessions . |
| 10 | Various experiments done in volcanic environments have shown that proteinoid globules are very likely to form in such regions . |
| 11 | Who is most likely to vote in local elections ? |
| 12 | Well the people who are most likely to vote in local elections tend to be the people who in greater numbers , if you see what I mean , are more likely to vote in , in general elections . |
| 13 | is not generally known to those persons who are accustomed or would be likely to deal in those securities but which would if it were generally known to them be likely to materially affect the price of those securities . |
| 14 | ‘ Unpublished price sensitive information ’ is information which relates to specific matters relating to or of concern ( directly or indirectly ) to that company , that is to say it is not of a general nature relating to or of concern to that company and is not generally known to those persons who are accustomed or would be likely to deal in those securities but which if it were generally known to them would be likely to affect the price of those securities . |
| 15 | Everyday experience tells us that a flavour mixed with some other will be perceived differently from that flavour presented on its own , but a click and a light ( perhaps because they come from different modalities ) are less likely to interact in this way . |
| 16 | As a result employers came to reappraise their previous strategy of attempting to contain unions by means of active opposition since that was more likely to result in increased government intervention to facilitate recognition . |
| 17 | This is likely to result in increased demand for access to our other information services . |
| 18 | Carmichael and Dearborn ( 1950 ) demonstrated that continuous reading was likely to result in increased failure of concentration within an hour , but if the performance of the reader was checked and confirmed by asking questions at half-hour intervals then performance could continue for six to eight hours without signs of fatigue . |
| 19 | Such events would be likely to result in long-term adversity-unemployment and financial hardship for the first person , loss of family support at the same time as facing the prospects of single parenthood or marrying an unsuitable man ‘ for the sake of the baby ’ for the second . |
| 20 | Attempts to establish such relations firmly in the successor republics are still going on , but the crisis inherent in contemporary political conditions is likely to result in strong executives . |
| 21 | But using the state pension age as a criterion is likely to result in unlawful discrimination not only on the question of retirement . |
| 22 | But the stunting of development in this way is likely to result in parental guilt and some spoiling of the achievements parents and children have accomplished together earlier on . |
| 23 | While an outstretched palm is likely to result in instant dismissal , a deft manoeuvre with the help of a room key — ‘ Here is your key , sir , do have a pleasant stay ’ — is a different matter . |
| 24 | These steps are likely to result in many employees ' worries being reduced and their attitudes towards relocation abroad becoming more favourable . |
| 25 | Its construction would be likely to result in excessive noise emissions , vibrations and generation of dust to the detriment of amenity , and the winning and working of minerals in this location would be contrary to the Buckinghamshire replacement minerals local plan . |
| 26 | The seed of such plants loses its viability — ability to germinate — more quickly , so that a spring sowing is likely to result in fewer seedlings . |
| 27 | Unseemly , internecine brawls , however , will be more likely to result in some form of state regulation . |
| 28 | Moreover the rapid increase in child poverty in England , some of which is mitigated ’ — admittedly — ’ by income transfers , is likely to result in further acceleration in the crime rate in the 1990's ’ . |
| 29 | For example , they may be reluctant to develop new markets and products if these actions are likely to result in initial losses , unless the cost of such initiatives are ‘ added back ’ in the definition of earnout profits . |
| 30 | It will be apparent from the last section that expulsion is a remedy of last resort and is all too likely to result in bitter dispute . |