Example sentences of "is likely [that] [adj] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not now possible to identify the fissures from which each of these thousands of lava flows were erupted , but it is likely that each was produced by an eruption broadly similar to that of the Laki fissure . |
| 2 | As the first land-based creatures would need a tougher , armoured skin to protect them from their new environment , it is likely that these were the first amphibians . |
| 3 | Liebing claiming a second ; it is likely that these were the two damaged Hurricanes . |
| 4 | The emeralds used in the ancient world were all mined in Upper Egypt and it is likely that these were first exported on a significant scale to satisfy the Roman appetite for coloured transparent stones . |
| 5 | Historical circumstances allow us to trace the change from archaic to classical most clearly in Athens , but other cities — Argos , Sicyon , Aegina — figure largely in the literary sources for this period , especially for their artists in bronze , and it is likely that these were prominent in the revolution . |
| 6 | It is likely that this is caused not by having less religious education , but by the fact that they tend to be peopled by children of classes who have traditionally fewer links with the church , and include parents making active decisions to keep their children out of the clergy 's grasp . |
| 7 | The failure to recall the current gear suggests that gear changing often does take place without a specific episodic memory being formed , in fact it is likely that this is the normal state of affairs , the relative infrequency of the failure being reported probably simply reflects the fact that the need for conscious awareness of the current gear is itself rare . |
| 8 | It is likely that this is because the invisible domain has to be inferred , and so there is more interpretative room for manoeuvre . |