Example sentences of "likely to be [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If anxieties are ironed out before a transfer takes place , the employee is less likely to be under the pressure of family concerns when taking up the new appointment . |
| 2 | Celtic are likely to be without the last Parkhead man to score , Joe Miller , injured playing for the Scotland Under-21s in midweek . |
| 3 | He is now likely to be off the track until Deauville in mid-August , followed by a tilt at the Breeders ' Cup . |
| 4 | Assimilation of manner is much less noticeable , and is only found in the most rapid and casual speech ; generally speaking , the tendency is again for regressive assimilation and the change in manner is most likely to be towards an ‘ easier ’ consonant — one which makes less obstruction to the airflow . |
| 5 | The biographer , therefore , is likely to work on people of some fame , whatever their spheres of activity may be , and so the biography is more likely to be about the famous ( or notorious ) person , the outstanding success or the eye-catching , unusual personality . |
| 6 | Ring fencing is likely to be along the following lines ( commencing with senior posts ) : |
| 7 | Her first employment was likely to be as a " reading girl " , that is to sit on a stool and read out the copy to a compositor . |
| 8 | There is some evidence that parents of low intelligence tend to produce children of low intelligence but this is not invariably the case and , where it is , it is just as likely to be as a result of environmental deprivation as of heredity . |
| 9 | Moving further into the German market would be difficult given the strength of the major players there , and if it does happen , it is likely to be via a joint venture . |
| 10 | As a typical 20-storey building has a frequency of 0.5 hertz , and taller buildings have even lower frequencies , they are likely to be beyond the range of resonance . |
| 11 | Circumstances alter cases : in deep recessions the economy is likely to be to the left of point A whereas in milder recessions the economy is more likely to be to the right of point A. |
| 12 | Circumstances alter cases : in deep recessions the economy is likely to be to the left of point A whereas in milder recessions the economy is more likely to be to the right of point A. |
| 13 | Erm quite rightly the director said that predictions in terms of residential admissions and nursing home admissions would be easier to make this year than last year and I accept it was very difficult then year but I 'd just like to know how close the actual outcome is likely to be to the original prediction , really for information , not because I think you could have got it any closer than did but it would be just interesting to know what the s the gap was . |
| 14 | Might it be , for example , that members of a particular religion are more likely to be of a certain age , or a certain class , and if these variables are taken into account ( ‘ held constant ’ ) does the relationship still look the same ? |
| 15 | Moreover , the ensuing change is likely to be of a gradual nature and not a radical rearrangement of the political or social order . |
| 16 | Non-financial reward for services is likely to be of a highly specific , immediate and implicated form ; financial recompense , however , may be translated at any time into a large range of goods and alternative services , according to the desire of the recipient . |
| 17 | This avoided the usual data capture problems , and although the amount of data was less than ideal ( ie there were no job titles , qualifications , addresses etc ) the accuracy was likely to be of a high order . |
| 18 | Hollywood blockbusters were still more likely to attract people than home-made films , ‘ perhaps because they are more likely to be of a genre which appeals to an escapist mentality during the recession ’ . |
| 19 | The Zoology here , from what I have already seen , is likely to be of a most interesting description , totally different in its nature from that of Sydney , but probably approaching nearer in its character to the productions found beyond the Liverpool range , or what is more properly called the interior of New South Wales . ’ |
| 20 | The amount of loss suffered by the consumer could be very large in relation to his financial resources , while not serious for the businessman who caused the breach , and in any event the businessman could ( in cases of breach caused by inadvertent default , at any rate ) possibly obtain insurance cover for such liability , since it is likely to be of a very low level ( see Harris v Wyre Forest District Council [ 1989 ] 2 All ER 514 ) . |
| 21 | So the final doses are likely to be of the order of 4 rems . |
| 22 | Communications remain important though the talk now is more likely to be of the high speed 1990s and the proposed link between the M1 and M62 or the rail freight link from ‘ Port Wakefield , ’ via the Channel Tunnel to the continent . |
| 23 | Initially , if they belonged to the Church of England , they were likely to be of the evangelical tendency so disturbing to comfortable Anglican parsons and laymen . |
| 24 | This is usually achieved easily enough by line breeding , though if the mutated genes are not dominant only a percentage of each brood is likely to be of the new form . |
| 25 | In general we estimate that sources of error in the retrievals limit the precision to about 10% but that the absolute errors , taking into account uncertainties in the line parameters , are more likely to be of the order of 15% . |
| 26 | There is no precise figure available about employment in the opencast coal industry , but the number is likely to be of the order of 17,000 . |
| 27 | 66 ) , i.e. a type C arrangement , is later than c. 320 ( it is more likely to be of the later decade of the third century ) . |
| 28 | It was decided to generate the samples from referrals to the psychogeriatric service in each borough , partly because it was easier to do that than to draw them from general practitioners ' lists or social services department referrals , but mainly in order to provide the service for people whose illness was likely to be at a relatively advanced stage and who were likely to need extra care if they were to continue to live at home . |
| 29 | And with experts predicting that four million people will be ‘ teleworking ’ from home by 1995 , properties with rooms which could be converted for office use are likely to be at a premium . |
| 30 | Also , apart from legal considerations , in most situations , a seller who does not provide such a remedy is likely to be at a significant commercial disadvantage compared to his competitors , since the giving of such guarantees and warranties has really become standard commercial practice . |