Example sentences of "likely [verb] [prep] [noun sg] to " in BNC.

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1 Whatever may be done to turn CD-ROM into a vehicle for multimedia , it is never likely to appeal in volume to the consumer market .
2 Retailing is likely to suffer in relation to commercial and industrial property .
3 However , we have seen that this approach can be criticized on the grounds that the discourse structure of the interview is still present and that attempts to obscure the nature of the speech event are likely to lead in practice to confusion and difficulty .
4 However , one need not be overly cynical to realise that having a good idea of what masses of people are likely to do in response to certain policies gives a competitive advantage to politicians and businessmen alike .
5 An unskilled smallholder is likely to lurch from crisis to crisis .
6 But a misinterpreted text , an inappropriate prayer , a hurried wedding ceremony ; are these likely to result in damage to the soul ?
7 A manufacturer of products , which he sells in such a form as to show that he intends them –o reach the ultimate consumer in the form in which they left him , with no reasonable possibility of intermediate examination , and with the knowledge that the absence of reasonable care in the preparation or putting up of the products is likely to result in injury to the consumer 's life or property , owes a duty to the consumer to take reasonable care .
8 Judicial views on this matter are likely to vary from judge to judge and from time to time : some judges favour more rather than less judicial review ; others less rather than more .
9 Assuming that research is likely to depend on access to a multiplicity of sources and databases , users will need such expert advice .
10 The answer lies in the fact that the risk premium may not be a simple constant ( α in the example ) but is likely to fluctuate from period to period .
11 Greatest difficulty is likely to occur in relation to attitudual and psychographic data . '
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