Example sentences of "likely [to-vb] out [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Cook , a heart patient , was suffering from a condition which made her agitated and likely to fall out of bed . |
| 2 | After producing beer for more than seven centuries , the brewery is likely to go out of business soon unless it can find a rich western partner . |
| 3 | The story of what is going on in the airline industry will perhaps provide as good an example as any of the gap which is growing between what is proposed in the ‘ competition Directives ’ and how matters are likely to work out in practice as a result of the distortions caused by subsidy . |
| 4 | Similarly organisations that find themselves in difficulty ; where the profits are not coming through , where there is pressure from shareholders for a significant improvement in profit performance ; here again , the chairman and the Board are likely to reach out to executive search consultants to find them new talent . |
| 5 | Of course , as he is moving in a random direction at a random speed , he is quite likely to whirl out of control and hit either side . |
| 6 | The machines also hold more cash , making them less likely to run out of money over weekends and at busy periods . |
| 7 | The sentences are less likely to run out of puff in mid-stream and trail off into inaudibility . |
| 8 | Thirdly , the Act clearly adopts as the test of danger either ‘ the greater risk of harm ’ or ‘ the risk of greater harm ’ : an elephant may not in fact be very likely to get out of control and do damage , but if it does so , its bulk gives it a great capacity for harm . |
| 9 | Wilson 's role was to follow up organising efforts which seemed to be failing and to exercise control when things seemed likely to get out of hand . |
| 10 | Ellen wondered if he had petit mal and looked it up in a medical dictionary — neither of them went to doctors if they could help it — but the entry was not very helpful , and it seemed in any case the kind of symptom it would be better to be vague about , not define , not name , for fear the naming made it worse , less likely to evaporate out of existence . |
| 11 | He favours careful risk assessment , which should enable regulators to concentrate on those ( like Maxwell ) who look most likely to step out of line . |
| 12 | He may well be disappointed that the whole thing seems likely to fizzle out as death by misadventure . ’ |
| 13 | A frightened cat with expanded pupils is just as likely to strike out in panic . |
| 14 | The rest of the poem is concerned with the social causes of human misery : the Female Vagrant tells us that This is dismissed by many critics as ‘ tainted with Godwinism ’ , but I can not myself see that lines like these are ever likely to become out of date . |