Example sentences of "likely [to-vb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The remaining colleges of higher education , approximately thirty in number , have their courses validated by the CNAA and , although the movement in this direction away from university validation has slowed down considerably , it is likely to continue for some time to come . |
| 2 | In the UK a study in 1970 found that people were twice as likely to continue with coitus interruptus than with the diaphragm and in 1974 the International Planned Parenthood Federation declared that this time-honoured method ‘ probably remains the most widely used of all on a global scale ’ . |
| 3 | Despite the end of the Cold War , military alliances seem likely to continue in some form — the Gulf War demonstrated the inability even of the United States to fund a medium-scale war unaided , and illustrated , again , the limitations to state autonomy . |
| 4 | The moratorium lasts until 1990 and it is quite likely to continue after that date , although minke whales may be hunted again . |
| 5 | As it is from the children of the semi- and unskilled working class who leave school without any qualification that the underclass is being recruited , it is important to ask which children are most likely to fall into this category . |
| 6 | One sort of policing which , almost by definition , is likely to remain beyond any form of democratic control is that concerned with the survival of the state itself . |
| 7 | With some 15,500 outlets for their business , solicitors are likely to remain for some time the principal providers of legal services even if there is considerable expansion of alternatives to the use of solicitors for some legal work ( The Law Society , 1990 ) . |
| 8 | You are much more likely to go for old pine , or oak , tough lacquer or vinyl — at least for several years , but there is no reason why these can not work just as well and create a feeling of their own . |
| 9 | A further 45 cases are likely to go to judicial review . |
| 10 | All in all , the AEG model can be recommended as an easy to use product of good quality , which is likely to cope with any routing tasks the d-i-yer may encounter . |
| 11 | Those most likely to object to this solution are those who have chronic illnesses and are currently receiving care within the NHS . |
| 12 | I should have thought that , in the abstract , no one was likely to quarrel with that statement . |
| 13 | Under a fixed exchange rate a currency flow surplus is likely to persist for some time . |
| 14 | Any review of the structures is not likely to stand for any number of years , it 's not likely to get absolutely right , erm , and so be flexible about your approach . |
| 15 | However , the amended agreement is not likely to appear for some time because , in September , the Publishers Association again appealed against the interstate decision . |
| 16 | CA has also set up a similar bundling agreement for CA-Unicenter with Sequent Computer Systems Inc , however , this version still has a lot of work to be done on it and is n't likely to appear until this time in 1993 . |
| 17 | A number of independent research studies carried out in California , Massachusetts , Hawaii and London have shown that moderate drinkers have a lower mortality rate than total abstainers and are less likely to suffer from coronary disease . |
| 18 | The two companies are likely to work on other management features such as the co-ordination of their Management Information Base for use on popular network management systems and the definition of a common network management database for their products . |
| 19 | In any case , not all Christians would accept that God 's mind is likely to work in this kind of way . |
| 20 | Fortunately there is a surprising repetitiveness about human nature : a good deal that has worked in one field is quite likely to work in another field . |
| 21 | And when my father gives it a little thought he 'll realise it is now September and that my time off is likely to creep into next year , which will make a much longer period owing to me . ’ |
| 22 | The paper argues that further education reforms are likely to meet with limited success and that the way to raise educational standards is to promote greater expectations of , and aspirations for , educational success . |
| 23 | The comparison will show how far politicians ' views reflect those of the citizens , and hence the extent to which policy is likely to meet with popular approval . |
| 24 | At the very least , conditioned inhibition training is likely to differ from latent inhibition training in that the former is likely to convey the information that a given event ( a given US ) will not occur whereas the latter could only convey that no event will occur . |
| 25 | Since the information stored is likely to differ from one employee to another , several relational database management systems for personnel records have been developed on micros exclusively for use in personnel applications . |
| 26 | With the possible exception of Jeanette Winterson and Jackie Collins , I can think of no two women less likely to benefit from each other 's company than these two , and I foresee fireworks . |
| 27 | Early evidence supporting psychiatric intervention came from non-randomized , retrospective studies ( Greer and Bagley 1971 ; Kennedy 1972 ) , and more work is required to establish which patients are likely to benefit from psychiatric care . |
| 28 | A child who has problems in any area of development may be regarded as being likely to benefit from some form of special educational placement , either full time or part time . |
| 29 | Many women with adverse living circumstances at the first interview will have had one or two psychiatric symptoms and would be particularly likely to benefit from social support . |
| 30 | Under the new hygiene regulations fryers are likely to come under close scrutiny because traditionally the job of cleaning them is one of the worst in the kitchen . |