Example sentences of "likely [to-vb] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As long as outside threats dominate Syrian affairs , the unsmiling President seems likely to remain firmly in control . |
| 2 | They said the bank 's board was likely to agree today to loans totalling nearly one billion European currency units ( about £816 million ) for about 17 different infrastructure projects in nine EC states . |
| 3 | Parrott looked likely to go further in front until he missed an easy yellow in frame four . |
| 4 | This is often a critical gap , for unless it is bridged , the child from the economically poorer background is never likely to cope adequately with schooling . |
| 5 | But the two crews are likely to meet again at Henley and the scene is set for a classic confrontation . |
| 6 | Future research should define the patients who would be likely to benefit most from oxygen therapy . |
| 7 | In similar circumstances you are , therefore , more likely to come forward with ideas again . |
| 8 | To dwell upon the problem emotions of others is frowned upon as ‘ morbid curiosity ’ , likely to lead only to highlighting and prolonging them , thereby causing unnecessary pain . |
| 9 | The tendency to centralise power over time is frankly admitted by the Commission , albeit diplomatically : ‘ the list of policies which qualify on the grounds of being more efficiently discharged at Community level than at national level is likely to evolve gradually over time . |
| 10 | Stevenson , likely to jostle only with Jimmy Kirkwood as Garvey 's Player-of-the-year , ought to win his first Ulster senior cap against Munster on Friday night . |
| 11 | This is likely to apply particularly to concepts , which can be understood on a number of levels , while skills are generally easier to specify as they are procedures carried out in practice and are therefore more " visible " , whereas pupils ' understanding of concepts and strategies can only be inferred from behaviour . |
| 12 | This group of ‘ uncounted unemployed ’ is likely to consist largely of women and school-leavers who have not worked before and so are not eligible for unemployment benefit . |
| 13 | The national polling organisations under-sample in Scotland 's rural areas , where the SNP is likely to do well in seats like Sir Nicholas Fairbairn 's Perth and Kinross and Mr Ian Lang 's Galloway and Upper Nithsdale . |
| 14 | The Government , however , is likely to press ahead with legislation this autumn which will tighten up the law on secondary action . |
| 15 | It 's been found that in Homes where residents are busy or active during the day , with plenty of stimulation , they are more likely to sleep well without drugs , and the rate of bed-wetting goes down dramatically . |
| 16 | Washington is likely to react angrily to Kiev 's stance , the latest example of brinkmanship between Russia and Ukraine over military matters , which could scuttle what was hailed as the most significant arms deal reached by the superpowers . |
| 17 | If the expatriate and family are expected to find their own accommodation , information should be given on the types of properties available for rent , how much these are likely to cost together with information on whether they are furnished or unfurnished . |
| 18 | Ignoring short term variation and age effects will tend to overestimate variation in male success relative to variation in female success , which is usually less strongly age-dependent in polygynous species ( see Fig. 23.2 ) and less likely to vary widely from day to day . |
| 19 | Answer guide : Machine operators ' wages and cost of raw materials as these are the only ones which are likely to vary directly with production . |
| 20 | If they obtain a strong set of warranties from the vendor , then they are likely to seek less from management . |
| 21 | Firstly , the curvatures are likely to depend linearly on mass ; otherwise a single mass would produce a different effect from that produced by two separate masses brought into contact . |
| 22 | It also seemed to inspire a sort of motherly affection in others , so that I was more likely to get away with carelessness or naughtiness than were my more physically mature contemporaries . |
| 23 | If equal treatment is defined to mean that the same level of contribution must earn the same level of weekly or monthly pension , and if the notion of survivors ' pensions is re-tained , then in these circumstances women are likely to get more in total from their own contributions than men and more out of their husband 's contributions as their survivors . |
| 24 | The Avon , Severn and Trent are all likely to feature in Denis ' matches for the rest of the season , although he is likely to stay away from events close to home where the meat has become the number one bait . |
| 25 | Luciano Leggio , the Sicilian capo who , according to Miss Sterling , claims controls most of the world 's heroin trade , has languished behind bars since 1974 and is likely to stay there for life . |
| 26 | Do n't necessarily accept the lowest quotation : you are likely to pay more for professionalism and thoroughness . |
| 27 | The rich are likely to cluster together in suburbs . |
| 28 | Building societies ' responses to the consultation on the 1992 regulations tend to favour that situation , and so the two are likely to move forward in parallel for the foreseeable future . |
| 29 | They 're more likely to steer clear of involvement . ’ |
| 30 | Under such circumstances the frequency with which you visited the pub would be likely to decrease gradually over time . |