Example sentences of "likely [to-vb] [prep] [det] [noun] " 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 | The United Kingdom holiday industry was in a period of rapid change and flux in late 1985 and this is likely to continue for some years to come . |
| 3 | The research to find a European version of taxol is likely to continue for some years . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The moratorium lasts until 1990 and it is quite likely to continue after that date , although minke whales may be hunted again . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Coal demand is likely to fall by some 10% from loss of heating and industrial sales , balanced by some increase in supplies to the electricity industry . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | Promotions in government service were likely to go to those officers who were able to make themselves useful politically , and if the connection between advancement and political activity was blatant in the case of Drummond , it was a link which long persisted , for even when revenue officers were deprived of the franchise , this did not materially alter the connection between holders of a revenue office and the politicians whose solicitations remained the usual route to advancement . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Those most likely to object to this solution are those who have chronic illnesses and are currently receiving care within the NHS . |
| 13 | Such virtues were also likely to appeal to many people of working age , especially if employment could be found in the growing service industries that had themselves decentralized . |
| 14 | I should have thought that , in the abstract , no one was likely to quarrel with that statement . |
| 15 | Under a fixed exchange rate a currency flow surplus is likely to persist for some time . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | However , the amended agreement is not likely to appear for some time because , in September , the Publishers Association again appealed against the interstate decision . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 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 | It predicts that , despite tougher standards for new cars , the problem is likely to increase for some years to come , largely as a result of a lack of any controls over the emissions of vehicles already on the road . |
| 22 | Energy demand is likely to increase by some 90% in the Middle East over the rest of the century as industrialisation continues in the major oil exporters . |
| 23 | With the mass media now part of everyday life and with arguments about bias and balance commonplace , the modern British subject is not likely to succumb to some Saddam sucker punch thrown by the third party from the corner of the living room . |
| 24 | Yet , at the same time , these are the sectors that are most likely to provide for those workers ( the lower paid and the unemployed ) at whom the government 's migration policies , operating through the Employment Transfer and Job Search Schemes , are aimed . |
| 25 | The Lothian Region ( Placing in Schools ) Appeal Committee is likely to meet on several occasions during late May and throughout June 1993 , to deal with appeals against refused placing requests for admission to primary and secondary schools for the session 1993/94 . |
| 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 | Elderly couple households fare much the same as all households , but elderly persons living alone are much less likely to benefit from such goods . |
| 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 | The study concludes that ‘ teasing of disabled children does occur both in and out of school … older pupils and those in integrated schooling are particularly likely to come across such behaviour . ’ |
| 30 | Circulars despatched to the shareholders of a widely-held private company by a purchaser are therefore likely to come within this definition if they relate to an offer or a potential offer . |