Example sentences of "it [vb -s] likely [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it looks likely that Liverpool will start the new campaign with a new central defender on their staff , which could prompt Sheffield Wednesday to renew their interest in Mark Wright . |
| 2 | If the Chancellor is to balance his budget this autumn it looks likely that VAT will be added in several areas which have been zero rated until now , and public transport may be one of them . |
| 3 | However , by analogy with the parietal cell ( see section 2 ) , it seems likely that HCO 3 - secretion involves parallel regulation of both basolateral and apical HCO 3 - transport systems , thereby allowing maintenance of a near constant pH i through varying rates of transepithelial HCO 3 - transport . |
| 4 | Whereas the majority of these will eventually have to submit to similar assessment and testing procedures as the core , it seems likely that art and music will only need to establish attainment guidelines . |
| 5 | Certainly it seems likely that women will find themselves ever more firmly trapped at the bottom of the office hierarchy as a result of the introduction of information technology . |
| 6 | It seems likely that dementia is the extreme end of a continuum of behaviour ; the point prevalence is to some degree determined by where the case definition line is drawn . |
| 7 | But as May 18th and Denmark 's second referendum on the treaty approach , it seems likely that Maastricht will be approved this time . |
| 8 | There have been smiths for very many years and it seems likely that workings excavated at Killellan by Colin Burgess in 1974 were those of a bronze age smith . |
| 9 | Yet it seems likely that resources would actually be better used in other prevention programmes . |
| 10 | But EC politicians are meeting later this month to discuss maternity rights and it seems likely that Britain will be forced to bring in a more generous package . |
| 11 | It seems likely that improvements in the health and work capacity of the elderly population over the last eighty years have more than compensated for any putative increase in the physical and mental demands of employment ; if so , rising retirement rates may reflect a decrease in the demand for the labour of elderly workers over a period in which their employment capacity has risen . |
| 12 | While Leopold recovered the family had to live without income , though it seems likely that Mozart made use of the interlude to compose his first symphonies . |
| 13 | It seems likely that changes in woodland management , the development of agriculture and the leisure and tourist industries will be the major factors affecting bird distribution in Sussex in the future . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , it seems likely that Dury is considerably less of a pain in the ‘ April ’ these days . |
| 15 | It seems likely that responses were sometimes in terms of whether the post was full-time or part-time , and sometimes whether training responsibility was full or part-time , and that this genuinely reflects the rather confusing diversity of titles held by library staff with training responsibilities . |
| 16 | Nevertheless it seems likely that change was forced on him , as earlier on such ‘ empirical ’ despots as Peter I in Russia and Frederick William I in Prussia , by the need for greater practical efficiency , and to some extent perhaps by an instinctive feeling for rationality , not by theories propounded in Paris . |
| 17 | It seems likely that Prince , chastened by the relative fall-off in his popularity after the caprices and wilful erraticism that followed Purple Rain has opted for consolidation . |
| 18 | Epithelial cells and fibroblasts differ in their pattern of cytokine gene expression , but it seems likely that fibroblasts may also influence T-cell maturation by contact mediated mechanisms . |
| 19 | Acetylcholine ( ACh ) and the enzymes that hydrolyse and synthesize it ( acetylcholine esterase and choline acetylase ) are present in relatively large quantities in insects ( Smallman and Mansing , 1969 ) and it seems likely that acetylcholine is a transmitter at neuropilar axo-axonic synapses ; y-aminobutyric acid ( GABA ) may also play a part in synaptic transmission in the neuropile . |
| 20 | Some bacteria , such as the one that causes syphilis , have flagellae ; and it seems likely that flagellae and cilia originated as parasitic bacteria which , instead of causing disease , remained and became incorporated into the cell as the relationship was mutually beneficial . |
| 21 | It seems likely that child labour underground increased after 1815 as the greater use of wheeled wagons on rail tracks brought the drawing of coal within their physical capabilities . |
| 22 | Moreover , what this episode testifies to is a resurgence of the power of the southern Saxons as they sought to further their own ascendancy in the south-east , the foundation of which had been laid by Wulfhere , and it seems likely that Eadric was established as king in Kent as a southern Saxon satellite . |
| 23 | It seems likely that permits are increasingly being given for non-manual occupations , which has tended to favour the white inhabitants of developed countries such as the USA and South Africa . |
| 24 | Library co-operatives rarely require much financial outlay but a minimum resource required is some staff time , and it seems likely that authorities with designated training officers ( or teams ) , are going to be in a much stronger position to be able to utilize the considerable potential possibilities of library co-operatives . |
| 25 | It seems likely that Gray was his first victim and Branson the second . |
| 26 | It seems likely that Ba existed in the living individual but was released or separated from the body after death . |
| 27 | The anonymous writer of 1497 said that apart from London there were only two towns of importance in the country , Bristol and York , but in this he was misinformed , as it seems likely that Norwich , which had undoubtedly had a period of difficulties in the early fifteenth century , had begun to recover about 1465 or 1470 , and was on the way to becoming the second wealthiest city in the land , as it was in the 1520s . |
| 28 | Similarly Bennett ( 1976 : 5 ) remarks ‘ it seems likely that communication is primarily a matter of a speaker 's seeking either to inform a hearer of something or to enjoin some action upon him ’ . |
| 29 | It seems likely that Oswald achieved the same accord as Eadwine with Eadbald , king of Kent . |
| 30 | Given the considerable cost of setting up new regional machinery of its own , it seems likely that NAB will turn for help to existing structures and , of these , the RACs seem by far the most likely candidates , if only because they will serve to ensure the close involvement of the LEAs . |