Example sentences of "it likely [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It makes it likely that a convention will be established to follow the authoritatively designated act . |
| 2 | Similarly , the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science considered that if legal protection was given to the married woman 's earnings , she and her family would benefit : ‘ is it likely that a wife and mother will be less solicitous for the well-being … of her household ? |
| 3 | Only where under-provision has resulted in really serious deficiencies is it likely that a librarian can argue successfully for extra funding to put the balance right . |
| 4 | These events make it likely that the mobilization of troops on the western borders was designed to keep order among the empire 's non-Russians rather than to prepare the ground for an invasion of central Europe . |
| 5 | There were several technical innovations but the spirit of the time made it likely that the man of the moment would be someone in whom technical boldness and artistic pretension would be sustained by the need to preach . |
| 6 | Once again , we are making it clear to the Minister and putting it firmly on record that , in its present form , the Bill does nothing to make it likely that the Government 's words , which have been employed to make the Bill more politically acceptable in Scotland , will be translated into reality . |
| 7 | Was n't it likely that the thing that had got into him at the seance was really from the planet Tellenor ? |
| 8 | Nor is it likely that the fashion for takeovers and debt was responsible for America 's poor rate of investment . |
| 9 | He thought it likely that the client had ‘ misunderstood ’ the discussion . |
| 10 | not annulled is it likely that the directive would affected from something like ninety , late nineteen-ninety-six . |
| 11 | The events at Stony Stratford clearly took the political community by surprise , and their reaction makes it likely that the seizure of the prince was a pre-emptive strike by Gloucester rather than ( as Mancini 's scenario would suggest ) a retaliation for his exclusion from power . |
| 12 | The events at Stony Stratford clearly took the political community by surprise , and their reaction makes it likely that the seizure of the prince was a pre-emptive strike by Gloucester rather than ( as Mancini 's scenario would suggest ) a retaliation for his exclusion from power . |
| 13 | While Bush supported the bill 's aim to create 50 urban and rural enterprise zones , the fact that the bill included some three dozen minor tax increases made it likely that the President would veto the measure either directly , or through simply declining to sign it , a procedure known as a " pocket veto " . |
| 14 | But may I point out to you , Dr. Briant , that I for one — and I think it likely that the audience feels much as I do — find the material you are giving us in so admirably concise and ordered a manner is not as intelligible as it might be , since we are ordinary simple souls ? |