Example sentences of "is likely [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Odd-Knut thinks that it might be best to make a night trip with empty sledges , returning to the camp , especially as a friend of his is likely to arrive for the night . |
| 2 | We have abstracted away from particular contexts , across communicative contexts in general , to arrive at a set of features , some of which seem relevant to the identification of a speech event as being of a particular kind , to the ability of the hearer to predict what sort of thing the speaker is likely to say in a given type of context , and to the constraining of interpretation in context . |
| 3 | But Britain is likely to press for a deal under which its own industry provides hardware for the satellites . |
| 4 | With the golden share intact , the company is under no immediate pressure to negotiate with the likes of GM and Ford and is likely to press for the most advantageous terms available . |
| 5 | The current expansion and urban growth in the Southern population has also affected the protestant community , and the increased pressure on schools in urban areas , such as Dublin , is likely to lead to a diminution of the protestant-catholic character of most protestant schools , unless deliberate decisions are taken to preserve the balance . |
| 6 | That quality , at least initially when combined with other innovation being imposed on the school system , is likely to lead to a distraction of the teachers ' time from the sort of effortless teaching strategies , hard won over decades , as they are drawn into the steep learning curve of the unfamiliar new language of the National Curriculum and its assessment . |
| 7 | In sum , any relaxation of marital constraints on women is likely to lead to a rise in the divorce-rate , whether these constraints are ones of tradition or custom or finance . |
| 8 | Our concern is that the availability of data from the new census , together with the increase in access to computers since the last census , is likely to lead to a veritable orgy of statistical analysis , and , if the past is a reliable guide to the future , this analysis will obscure rather than illuminate fundamental issues in resource allocation . |
| 9 | Refusal to change your outward ‘ device ’ is likely to lead to a permanent rest . |
| 10 | Given that the firm will not undertake work in this area that is likely to lead to a contested bid , the majority of such ‘ friendly ’ transactions will involve the seeking of irrevocable undertakings from directors ( who would normally be recommending the offer ) and possibly from other shareholders . |
| 11 | " Original " is liberally interpreted in copyright law ; however , the requirement that the topography is not commonplace is likely to lead to a much narrower interpretation ( see the discussion of C & H Engineering v F Klucznik & Sons Ltd. in the previous Chapter ) . |
| 12 | A currency union is likely to lead to a reduction in member countries ' natural rate of unemployment . |
| 13 | A court should be slow to draw any such inference , however , since Parliament has in section 4 indicated its intention that an offence should be committed only where the distribution of literature is likely to lead to the use of violence . |
| 14 | If a proposed merger is likely to lead to the merged firms having a market share greater than one quarter or alternatively involves assets in excess of £30 million , then it may be referred to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission . |
| 15 | Analysis of current fertility by parity , and the responses to attitude surveys , have persuaded official statisticians and some demographers ( OPCS 1989 , Shaw 1989 , Brass 1989 ) that fertility in Britain is likely to return to a higher , if not replacement level . |
| 16 | Adrian Doherty , who missed the Monaghan match because he felt a slight twinge in his knee , is likely to return to the team this afternoon . |
| 17 | Dave Higgins , who missed Friday 's match with a stomach complaint , is likely to return to the Rovers defence but other changes will be at a minimum . |
| 18 | Mr Gould , a prominent Euro-sceptic in the early 1980s , is likely to argue for the commitment to maintaining sterling 's value within the Exchange Rate Mechanism to be ditched , to increase a Labour government 's room for manoeuvre . |
| 19 | The future fate of the Universe is not one of humanity 's more pressing problems : on this scale nothing drastic is likely to happen for a few hundred billion years yet . |
| 20 | There is , however , a chasm between what is becoming technically possible , and the reality of what is likely to happen to the air on our city streets , where , according to Friends of the Earth , pollution levels regularly exceed WHO standards . |
| 21 | ( Clue : what is likely to happen to the rate of interest ? ) |
| 22 | What is likely to happen in the future , and — in particular — what are the likely consequences of the changes in the health service ? |
| 23 | What is likely to happen in the future to the number of children in the Hebrides ? |
| 24 | There are wider implications : what is happening in London today is likely to happen in the rest of Britain tomorrow . |
| 25 | It has been found that well-informed patients are less anxious and the nurse can help by explaining what is likely to happen in the pre- , peri- and post-Operative periods . |
| 26 | I have n't argued morality , I 've tried to argue what is likely to happen in the Middle East as a result of the war . |
| 27 | Now of that hundred and twenty five thousand revenue spending which would be coming out of County Council to match what is likely to happen in the five B programme , most of that , most of that is on economic development activities , now the kind of way we can find that money without going to the authorities and asking for growth funding , because this Committee has not asked for any and that is not common in all the committees in the Council , is actually by finding it out of things like our monies , and other projects , actually funding it yourself as a Committee , funding the ability to draw in European money into Shropshire . |
| 28 | If something goes wrong , they do n't know what they are going to have to pay because if I 'm a pension fund manager now , I do n't know what is likely to happen in the next year which is going call on me for compensation . |
| 29 | A Plec is not recommended , not because of any effect on the mating , but because it is likely to polish off the eggs at night . |
| 30 | Erm all that sort of leads me back to where I started from , our perception of this survey is that it 's encouraging in the sense that it suggests that the recovery in the economy is erm widening and deepening if you like , it 's widening in the sense that it 's spreading to all the mainland regions of the U K and it 's deepening in the sense that erm firstly , although there are regional variations within this , it 's clearly not purely an export story and it 's not purely a domestic story , it 's a mixture of the two which gives us some reassurance erm it 's also deepening in the sense that there 's no evidence from the survey of anything which is likely to trip up the recovery in the short term , and remember that most of these er questions relate to the next four months , not all of them , but mo most of them relate to the next four months so one does n't want to extrapolate too far forward but nevertheless if you look at erm er most obviously sort of the the crisis and the inflation questions , if you look at er |