Example sentences of "likely [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For women , money purchase schemes are problematic in that early contributions are likely to promote the best returns , yet younger women typically leave the labour force for several years and/or work part-time on motherhood . |
| 2 | Such a change is likely to affect the smaller businesses rather than the large companies . |
| 3 | I think there 's a lot of the co , er , the smaller companies feel that way , but the bigger companies have tried the smaller ones , and I think we , we 're not likely to lose the bigger ones as easy as lose the small ones . |
| 4 | The 1990s are likely to see the last days of the political baronets . |
| 5 | Because the polls , and therefore the program , are likely to shortchange the minor parties , and because the minor parties are most likely to make gains at the Conservatives ' expense , the program is liable to project somewhat too high a level of Tory parliamentary support . |
| 6 | In a move likely to anger the independent-minded leaders of the three Baltic republics , the Kremlin told Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania that several laws ‘ strengthening their economic and political independence ’ would have to go . |
| 7 | In a move likely to anger the independent-minded leaders of the three Baltic republics , the Kremlin told Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania that several laws ‘ strengthening their economic and political independence ’ would have to go . |
| 8 | His nursing care was gradually reduced as Stanley became more independent , but he continued to have a nurse in attendance overnight , when he was most likely to suffer the epileptic fits . |
| 9 | His critics point out that the pardon has proved deeply unpopular and , to the extent that it is likely to encourage the armed forces to insist on a public vindication , could have the opposite effect . |
| 10 | In the 1980s Conservatives have been more likely to evaluate the mediating institutions according to whether or not they are in the public sector . |
| 11 | To bring that about in a timescale which meets the present crisis for world peace would be likely to create the very wars we are seeking to avoid . |
| 12 | Generally speaking , however , novelists are much more likely to celebrate the domestic virtues that , given half a chance , the working class can be expected to display ; and , in order to produce that image , a certain amount of cleaning-up goes on . |
| 13 | Certainly , the social psychoanalysis of the oral aspects of the cultural superego seems far easier than the corresponding attempts to analyse pre-Oedipal oral superego elements in the development of the child where the crucial phenomena have occurred long before the acquisition of language , and where analytic ‘ reconstructions ’ are more likely to reflect the theoretical expectations of the analyst than they do the reality . |
| 14 | As a result the farm worker is as likely to resent the high wages paid to workers in other industries for what often appears to him to be little skill and less hard work as to harbour a sense of grievance against either farmers in general or his own boss in particular . |
| 15 | In the first place , the march of the multiples and diversification by travel operators themselves is likely to undermine the traditional relationships established between travel agents and operators . |
| 16 | It so happened that the Gulf War in Kuwait was filling our attention , and so I switched on a video tape whenever something attracted me and I found that I would be most likely to record the daily sessions on the BBC 's Newsnight with Peter Snow discussing the disposition of troops over the battle zone using a visual aid which is now known as the sandpit . |
| 17 | Using an amp with a good speaker simulator is likely to give the best results , while there are various effects units with built-in speaker simulators . |
| 18 | Mr Kinnock has to be protected from questions because he is likely to give the wrong answers , even about specific Labour policies he is supposed to know by heart . |
| 19 | The increased investigative powers contained in the latter piece of legislation is likely to give the regulatory authorities a greater degree of success in detecting insider abuse , however , the subjective elements of the substantive offence , as enshrined in the CSA 1985 , remain an onerous burden for the prosecution to discharge . |
| 20 | ‘ Any suggestion that immigrants are being admitted on sufferance only , or that their range of choices , for example about where they live , is bring restricted , is likely to reinforce the unsettling effects of the move to a new environment which they will be making . ’ |
| 21 | It has been estimated that the real cost of an average package holiday was 16 per cent less in 1987 than 1980 , and this value for money is likely to keep the large groups well placed at the top of the market share listings . |
| 22 | This contrast may , of course , reflect to some degree the personal inclinations of the authors : it has been suggested in the previous chapter , for example , that Taskopruzade 's interests tended to the antiquarian , which would make him all the more likely to emphasize the old virtues of piety and learning . |
| 23 | It is in the field of assessment that the new arrangements are likely to pose the most difficulties for teachers and distract them from their first task of finding their way into ‘ the very queer and tortuous passages of children 's minds ’ . |
| 24 | The way was now open for peace negotiations with France , and these negotiations inevitably looked rather like the negotiations which had ended the wars against Louis XIV in 1713 — sensible enough at a time of high expenditure but not fair to allies nor likely to allow the British negotiators to gain the largest possible amount at the bargaining table . |
| 25 | However the public is influenced by the wider allegations and Kitcher expresses concern that ‘ Those who have been beguiled into thinking that a high school course in evolutionary biology is the gateway to a life of violence and depravity are not likely to ponder the scientific credentials . ’ |
| 26 | Togliatti 's apparent cold indifference to the fate of his fellow countrymen shocked many and seemed likely to damage the electoral chances of the PDS and the PRC , the two parties which were the direct successors of the PCI . |
| 27 | The developing countries with a surplus agricultural production but an energy deficit , such as Brazil , Sudan , and Thailand , are likely to have the strongest incentives to develop large biomass energy programmes in order to reduce their dependence on imported energy . |
| 28 | In bottle-wrack , on the other hand , all the cells within a plant are likely to have the same genes , because only very recent mutations could divide them . |
| 29 | The shift we commend — from a stance which teachers view as authoritarian and bureaucratic to one founded on professional partnership — is not only preferable in terms of the quality of relationships within the Authority , but is also far more likely to deliver the very improvements in professional practice for which the Primary Needs Programme was established . |
| 30 | Certainly at county level Walsh has been among the most penetrative bowlers on the circuit since his debut here in 1984 , and in that period his name can be bracketed with such as Sir Richard Hadlee , Malcolm Marshall , Neil Foster , Terry Alderman , Allan Donald , and Waqar Younis as the man most likely to top the end-of-season averages . |