Example sentences of "likely that [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fine masonry extended up to the top of the ground floor , but it seems likely that the upper floors — however many there were — were usually made of mudbricks . |
| 2 | Had it not been for one other factor , it seems likely that the combined pressures upon English both from inside and outside the discipline might well have caused it to accommodate itself more directly to the service of " vocationalism " , and " social responsibility " , and thus the needs of interdisciplinary and applied work . |
| 3 | Perhaps they were too well-known to need spelling out ; but it is just as likely that the personal qualities which contemporaries did stress were what really accounted for both men 's influence at the courts of successive Carolingians . |
| 4 | Even if the complete compound exists within the syntax window it is likely that the incorrect parts of speech will be assigned to the constituent words resulting in an erratic selection of words by the analyser . |
| 5 | The answer is that it is likely that the other behaviours are part of the tantrum . |
| 6 | Informed sources in the Caribbean thought it likely that the political maneouvrings behind all this were by way of a reprisal for a report by Lord Avebury criticizing Forbes Burnham 's ruling party for election-rigging . |
| 7 | It is likely that the early figures in particular were underestimates , and that at the mid-century there were only two persons for each head of cattle . |
| 8 | It is likely that the early stages of all procedures will rest with the headteacher and other senior staff in school . |
| 9 | It is quite likely that the early mammals were nocturnal in habit and thereby avoided direct competition with the smaller dinosaurs . |
| 10 | What happens next is not completely clear , but it seems likely that the central regions of the star would collapse to a very dense state , such as a neutron star or black hole . |
| 11 | The current situation is that several new themes are being worked up , and it is likely that the existing themes will be broadened to cover a wider range of engineering interests . |
| 12 | But , as we all know , beauty is only skin deep — it is more likely that the new breeds were favoured because they grew faster and to almost twice the size of bronze strains . |
| 13 | Despite some similarities , it seems increasingly likely that the pathogenic mechanisms of ulcerative colitis and Crohn 's disease are distinct . |
| 14 | Whilst there may be circumstances which influence individuals in their selection of an adviser , it seems likely that the crucial factors are availability , cost and reputation . |
| 15 | In the United Kingdom and France Letters are transmitted through their own Central Authorities , a procedure which has the advantage of making it more likely that the formal requirements of the Convention will be fully complied with . |
| 16 | It is also quite likely that the social services consumed some of the capital that could have been invested in industry , but again there was no scarcity of capital during this period . |
| 17 | Is it not likely that the healing powers are continually trying to maintain order in the system but once the external stresses reach a certain level this can no longer be done ‘ passively ’ but the very attempt to keep a balance produces outward signs which we generally find uncomfortable and so call disease ; which is literally a lack of ease or disease . |
| 18 | It seems likely that the proposed mechanisms of action of calcium , incolving either the precipitation of calcium bound bile salts or fatty acids as soaps , and the negation of such actions by phosphate is an over simplification . |
| 19 | It is likely that the main tenets of the report were passed to Mrs Thatcher during talks at Number 10 this month with Mr Jonathan Porritt , director of FoE . |
| 20 | It is becoming more and more likely that the main centres of population exploiting the countryside were in the valleys and that the evidence is largely obscured by later ( or continuously used ? ) settlements on roughly the same sites ( Fig. 57 ) . |
| 21 | It is likely that the specialised services for visually handicapped children will be part of the local education authority 's educational services , although some advisers are based on a special school for visually handicapped children . |
| 22 | If one word is incorrect then it is more likely that the surrounding words are also incorrect , possibly due to incorrect word segmentation . |
| 23 | Elsewhere , it is likely that the original boundaries between the fields will only be recognized through extensive survey and excavation . |
| 24 | It is likely that the methodological differences account for this . |
| 25 | It seems likely that the British-based institutions will do their best to retain their old class character whilst co-opting new expert personnel and new methods of operation in order to remain competitive with the newcomers . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , it is likely that the qualitative features of DNA binding are the same . |
| 27 | ‘ whereby that person is likely to believe that such violence would be used or it is likely that such violence would be provoked ’ The officer dealing and/or civilian witnesses could help prove this point by including in their evidence observations such as , ‘ The crowd of visiting football supporters were likely to believe they were going to be attacked ’ , or ‘ It was likely that the visiting supporters would lose their tempers and attack the home crowd ’ . |