Example sentences of "likely [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today 's country sound is just as likely to embrace the electronic drum machine and organ as the spoons and washboard . |
| 2 | They are n't likely to wear the same garment for six years , as Granny might do ! |
| 3 | The syllabus includes the ‘ core ’ of chemistry drawn up by the Standing Conference on University Entrance in 1983 , and as far as we can tell is also likely to include the new chemistry core under construction by the School Examination and Assessment Council . |
| 4 | This structure is likely to include the advance co-ordination of diaries to ensure that all those who should attend can , a visible commitment from partners that the meetings are to be given high priority , the circulation of concise pre-reading in good time , and adherence to a formal agenda . |
| 5 | Ministers are also likely to emphasise the industrial muscle which will be created by the merger of three public sector unions — Nupe , Nalgo and Cohse . |
| 6 | Before the Director General can take action under the Regulations , the advertisement must be such that it both deceives or is likely to deceive and is likely to affect the economic behaviour of those whom it reaches or to injure a competitor of the trader ( usually the advertiser ) whose interests the advertisement is promoting . |
| 7 | On the other hand , it is my opinion that when a decision-making body is called upon to reach a decision which arises out of the relationship between two persons or firms , only one of whom is directly under the control of the decision-making body , and it is apparent that the decision will be likely to affect the second person adversely , then as a general proposition the decision-making body does owe some duty of fairness to that second person , which , in appropriate circumstances , may well include a duty to allow him to make representations before reaching the decision . |
| 8 | In particular , abstraction of water is likely to affect the generating capacity of the Lake Kariba dam downstream . |
| 9 | Hence , one might expect the middle class to opt for the political party most likely to conserve the existing state of affairs . |
| 10 | The leadership challenge occurred against a background of economic recession — including rising unemployment and high interest rates — and consistent opinion poll evidence that the ALP was likely to lose the next election . |
| 11 | Natural gas as a replacement for coal is important , too , but coal is cheap and plentiful and likely to remain the principal fuel of China , potentially the world 's biggest producer of carbon dioxide ( and other pollutants , too ) . |
| 12 | E places it after these events , and so is here more likely to preserve the original form of the annal . |
| 13 | To establish whether government investment was made where it was likely to see the greatest return or to areas of greatest deprivation , public spending patterns were analysed in the light of private investment and previous revitalisation and deprivation patterns . |
| 14 | Those with less internal resources are likely to contract the whole project out . |
| 15 | They were , too , more likely to enjoy the actual work , for they had undertaken training to do it . |
| 16 | Many Western companies , frustrated by restrictions on sales to the eastern bloc , are likely to find the Soviet technology sales drive particularly galling . |
| 17 | However , I think we are more likely to find the right answer if we ask the right question . |
| 18 | While NCR 's shareholders are celebrating , Ma Bell 's are likely to suffer the inevitable hangover . |
| 19 | But her supper table was renowned ; it was likely to attract the right kind of dissolute young man , coming out of the theatre or on his way to a private gambling party . |
| 20 | The DAF workers are less likely to attract the same sort of gritty sympathy that the miners have done . |
| 21 | The Belgians are likely to provide the individual winner in either Vincent Rousseau , who dominated the Euro Cross from 1984 to 1988 , or Joes Maes , a runner-up to Hackney last year . |
| 22 | Together the two divisions are likely to provide the entire increase in the company 's taxable profits this year . |
| 23 | The combination of a graphics modeller with spatial and functional associativity would be likely to provide the optimum design tool . |
| 24 | In good market conditions , however , auction or tender will be more likely to provide the best price for the client , but because the land has been widely advertised the purchaser will be under no moral or other obligation to re-instruct the agent . |
| 25 | If the Government were likely to meet the full cost , the proposal would be unnecessary . |
| 26 | Likely to meet the Scottish club are Yorkshire 's Ilkley , who re-confirmed their serious intention to succeed in 1992 by beating lowly-placed Barnard Castle School , and then following up this home victory a few days later with a 3–0 away success in a delayed fixture against Topspin Darlington . |
| 27 | In this way you are more likely to extract the whole larva without damaging it . |
| 28 | Thus , the returns during trading on each market are likely to lead the closed market returns for the other markets , and this is what Becker , Finnerty and Tucker found , except that the Nikkei Stock Average did not lead the FT-SE 100 . |
| 29 | With his entrepreneurial skills , and his international connections , he seemed for a time the man most likely to lead the British film industry away from its artisanal base , but he turned out to be no more responsive than anyone else to developments that were going to make things very difficult for the pioneers . |
| 30 | But Cleveland 's case is the most likely to reach the high court . |