Example sentences of "likely [to-vb] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Who else would be likely to drive from Paris in the middle of the night and go halfway to demolishing a door ? |
| 2 | The girl seemed likely to continue into adulthood with substantial social and emotional difficulties . |
| 3 | Profits , above £100million in 1987/88 , are likely to fall to £45million in the year to next April . |
| 4 | In 1960 the pattern which had emerged seemed likely to remain in force for some time to come , with the EEC countries preferring a maximum of integration and the remainder opting for a minimal level of intergovernmental association . |
| 5 | Most of the original copies are in fine condition : they are , moreover , exceedingly rate and one is very likely to go through life without coming across better ones . |
| 6 | The Council of Licensed Conveyancers and the Institute are likely to go for approval at an early date ; it is unlikely , however , that any approvals will be given before the second half of 1993 . |
| 7 | One faintly ludicrous example is a 1993 case where the Court of Appeal said that a sentence passed on a Mr Fairman would ‘ indicate to other people who might be minded to set fire to armchairs in the middle of a domestic row that if they do , they were likely to go to prison for as long as two years ’ . |
| 8 | So at the moment this is only available at the Radcliffe Infirmary , is there , is it likely to go to hospitals in other parts of the country ? |
| 9 | A real detective superintendent investigating a murder will confine himself largely to facts and only at the height of questioning someone he is almost certain is his quarry is he likely to go into motivation as a way , as often as not , of bring about a final confession . |
| 10 | Finally , as industrial societies do not remain static — indeed some sociologists are already talking of a ‘ postindustrial ’ society — what further changes , if any , are we likely to see in patterns of family living or in the development of alternatives to what we usually understand as ‘ the family ’ ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A version of this suggestion has already been met with as a possible explanation for some DOEs when it was suggested ( p. 159 ) that an expectancy of a reinforcer evoked by a sample stimulus will be more likely to persist in memory across the delay of a delayed MTS experiment than will a representation of the sample stimulus itself . |
| 13 | This underlines the argument that it is poor children whose rearing is most likely to appear to agencies to be unsatisfactory . [ … ] |
| 14 | Crohn 's disease patients and their relatives are more likely to suffer from disorders with a known or suspected autoimmune origin than members of the general population . |
| 15 | Retailing is likely to suffer in relation to commercial and industrial property . |
| 16 | The biographer , therefore , is likely to work on people of some fame , whatever their spheres of activity may be , and so the biography is more likely to be about the famous ( or notorious ) person , the outstanding success or the eye-catching , unusual personality . |
| 17 | Again , once this has been clarified , custom is likely to work in favour of continuing use . |
| 18 | Gas demand is likely to increase by 25% over the remainder of the century with saturation being achieved in domestic markets and increased penetration occurring in industrial and commercial markets . |
| 19 | Box ( 1987 ) argues that crimes committed by corporations , businesses and professions are likely to increase in times of economic recession although he admits that the evidence is less strong than for ‘ conventional ’ crimes ( see Chapter Four ) . |
| 20 | If this happens at night , go to ground , shelter yourself as best you can and go looking for help the next day unless you 're likely to freeze to death in the meantime . |
| 21 | However , a person who based his or her sense of worth entirely on achievement would be much more likely to succumb to depression in the event of such employment problems . |
| 22 | The overall guiding role of the party was therefore likely to meet with resistance at some stage and there are signs that this indeed happened increasingly in the post-Stalinist period . |
| 23 | These are likely to meet with opposition on the grounds of spoiling favourite views . |
| 24 | Individual Compact schools are likely to benefit by additions to their school allowances . |
| 25 | Individual Compact schools are likely to benefit by additions to their school allowances of hundreds of pounds towards the increased costs of Compact . |
| 26 | And that dismal record is likely to come under scrutiny from UEFA shortly , with Liverpool possibly in line for a warning or even a heavy fine . |
| 27 | None of the Republic players was more likely to come into conflict with Charlton 's tactics than Liam Brady , who announced his retirement from international football after being substituted 10 minutes from half-time in a recent friendly against West Germany . |
| 28 | As Tunis showed , French interest was turning overseas and there she was likely to come into conflict with Great Britain . |
| 29 | If a large number of people are likely to come into contact with the chemical , the committee recommends testing on mice and other small mammals . |
| 30 | Caterers are most likely to come into contact with industrial tribunals if one of their past or present employees refers a matter to the tribunal with regard to his or her contract of employment . |