Example sentences of "likely have a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The opening of the Channel Tunnel is more likely to have a detrimental effect on former non-scheme operators as they are largely concentrated in the South East corner of Britain . |
| 2 | They 're not the bargains they used to be : a double room will cost from around £35 to £65 a night , but it 's likely to have a four-poster bed , and there 's always a splendid dining room where you can try food of the region . |
| 3 | You are more likely to have a useful conversation about safer sex if you do n't leave it until you are sexually aroused , drunk , or very tired . |
| 4 | Given the sources of deconstructionism in Nietzsche among others , it is just as likely to have a nihilist-reactionary dimension as a progressive one . |
| 5 | Many of them are likely to have a great deal more sharp , down-to-earth commonsense than you have . |
| 6 | Some of the goods on sale are enticing Juranc , on wines , local sausage , the ubiquitous Pyrenean fromage de brebis or ewe's-milk cheese , worth trying if only out of local piety though hardly one of France 's great cheeses — others look likely to have a long shelf-life . |
| 7 | A curriculum-based report is likely to have a greater chance of success because it shows benefits to pupils , the teachers and the school librarian i.e. the whole school . |
| 8 | A report by the London School of Economics suggested that the formation last year of Scottish Enterprise , a body linked to 13 local enterprise bodies with responsibility for investment and training , was likely to have a greater influence on the economy than the Training and Enterprise Councils . |
| 9 | It will be much more stable and you are likely to have a greater degree of success . |
| 10 | Qaddafi says that nations are likely to have a greater proportion of written members than tribes generally do ( III , ‘ Merits of the tribe ’ , ‘ The nation ’ ) ; and he says that shared experience can forge a common solidarity , a sense of belonging . |
| 11 | The man who is convinced that his little clam-digger is much smaller than that of his peers will be delighted to discover that he is much more likely to have a greater co-efficient of linear expansion than his mates . |
| 12 | Owners of ‘ dangerous ’ breeds are likely to have a three-month period — until the end of November — to obtain a police permit for their animals . |
| 13 | All but the simplest PC LANs are likely to have a central computer acting as a file or database server , dedicated to looking after the data on behalf of all the desktop machines . |
| 14 | a young black male ( aged between twelve and fifteen ) is twenty-two times more likely to have a violent crime committed against him than an elderly white woman ( over 65 ) and seven times more likely to have something stolen from him . |
| 15 | It happened to be my birthday — I 've never had or am likely to have a better birthday dinner , I do n't mind being a year older every year for this ! |
| 16 | Why is this coalfield likely to have a better future than that in North East England ? |
| 17 | Architecturally they are likely to have a short-word length ( most commonly 16 bits ) , to perform arithmetic in fixed-point binary format , and to be provided with sophisticated transput and interrupt facilities . |
| 18 | You are about to set out on an interesting and formative experience , something that is likely to have a major impact on your life . |
| 19 | In the areas of social policy , a separate protocol to which all the member states except the United Kingdom are signatories , is likely to have a major impact on companies operating in the Community , including a probable ‘ trickle-on ’ effect to companies based in the United Kingdom . |
| 20 | Explanations which are produced in normal conversation are likely to have a sharing function . |
| 21 | The ability of a local authority to sue in libel would be likely to have a chilling effect upon the potential commentator in an area of public concern about which the public at large has an interest in receiving information and observations . |
| 22 | The expert clause in the parties ' contract will be the only document likely to have a decisive effect , and then only if it lays down the procedure in detail , which many do not do . |
| 23 | 7.2 Two changes seem likely to have a specific impact on people with dementia : |
| 24 | Women who take the contraceptive pill and who also smoke cigarettes are more likely to have a coronary attack , stroke or blood clot in the leg veins , which may shift to the lung ( pulmonary embolism ) than non-smokers who are on the pill . |
| 25 | This ‘ language deficit ’ was often assumed , explicitly or otherwise , to reflect a corresponding ‘ cognitive deficit ’ : because language and thought are related , a person with a restricted language capacity is also likely to have a restricted thinking capacity . |
| 26 | In this case the vindication , or otherwise , of the individual is likely to have a similar effect upon the council . |
| 27 | They were , therefore , more likely to have a regular partner , to have less contact with former friends , and to be spending the greatest proportion of their time fulfilling a traditional domestic role . |
| 28 | Your face will be more likely to have a dull complexion , with podgy , sagging cheeks and double chin . |
| 29 | Compared to whites , blacks are less likely to acquire educational qualifications , their marriages are more likely to end in separation or divorce and they are more likely to have a criminal record . |
| 30 | The first is the trend towards broader curricula in the schools , which seems likely to have a knock-on effect on A ( and AS ) levels and thence higher education . |