Example sentences of "are likely [verb] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , if it should turn out that the tropics are thermostatically stabilized , then changes in forcing which are associated with little change in dynamic heat flux are likely to cause very little global change . |
| 2 | Pupils with mild or moderate levels of visual problems are likely to need only some of the adaptations listed ( for example , closed circuit television will not be needed ) , but they will benefit from an environment and materials that are clear in visual terms . |
| 3 | EC agriculture policies force farmers to exploit their land to the maximum and financial pressures are likely to prevent even those who wish to protect the environment from doing so , according to a report issued by Greenpeace . |
| 4 | Indeed , economies of scale are likely to vary so much between different services that they can not all be served by a single settlement policy . |
| 5 | Not only does the promotion system mean that people who rise to the top are likely to have just those personal characteristics it takes to commit corporate crime , but these are also reinforced by the psychological consequences of success itself , for these too free a person from the moral bind of conventional values . |
| 6 | However , in practice , computer procedures are likely to produce as many links which are potentially misleading as links which are helpful . |
| 7 | A study sponsored by the Natural Environment Research Council has found that trees exposed to air-pollutant gases are likely to suffer as much from aphid attacks as from the direct effects of the pollutants . |