Example sentences of "likely to result [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many industries , a strike in 1984 is almost as likely to result in fatalities , injuries , or destruction of property as it would have been in 1934 or even 1904 . |
| 2 | But a misinterpreted text , an inappropriate prayer , a hurried wedding ceremony ; are these likely to result in damage to the soul ? |
| 3 | There are major difficulties with the use of this technique , since it is likely to result in programs whose structure is extremely opaque , and which are therefore very difficult to understand and debug . |
| 4 | . It is here very tentatively suggested that these may be cases in which , as the law now stands , the doctor has a discretion … either to refrain , at his patient 's request , from administering life-saving treatments or to ignore his patient 's wishes where compliance is likely to result in death . |
| 5 | What mechanisms are in place to ensure that health care services are purchased in a manner likely to result in equity between social groups and individuals ? |
| 6 | It is assumed that the evaluation of particular practices in particular contexts is more relevant to the educational and professional needs of teachers and schools and therefore more likely to result in improvement . |
| 7 | A manufacturer of products , which he sells in such a form as to show that he intends them –o reach the ultimate consumer in the form in which they left him , with no reasonable possibility of intermediate examination , and with the knowledge that the absence of reasonable care in the preparation or putting up of the products is likely to result in injury to the consumer 's life or property , owes a duty to the consumer to take reasonable care . |
| 8 | But in the most unlikely of places the announcement that a nuclear power station , a motorway , an institution for criminals , and so on is to be built , is likely to result in protest which requires police assistance , and sometimes law enforcement . |
| 9 | It was , essentially , a public order offence , and since true stories were more likely to result in breaches of the peace , it spawned the aphorism " The greater the truth , the greater the libel . " |
| 10 | Cessation of growth is most likely to result from starvation , which may arise because : the whelks eat out their food supply , or the supply fails for some other reason ( perhaps as a result of pollution Bryan ( 1969 ) ; wave action dislodges the whelks and transports them away from their food supply , or prevents them from feeding in some other way ( Cowell and Crothers , 1970 ) ; the temperature drops so low that the whelks become inactive for a long period ( Feare , 1970a ) . |
| 11 | The cross-hatched areas give the range of speed for each angle of slope likely to result from variation in snow conditions , wax and weather . |