Example sentences of "likely to have [been] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed in the circumstances in which he found the community there is likely to have been a good deal of disorder . |
| 2 | Akrotiri was built in about 1550 BC ( Late Minoan IA ) and is likely to have been a Minoan foundation . |
| 3 | Family restriction , by cutting down on labour costs , accelerated middle-class living standards , and this seems likely to have been a major contributory factor to decisions to limit family size . |
| 4 | It appears that severity of illness or disability is likely to have been a critical variable , and in cases of severe disability , health would have been an overriding consideration . |
| 5 | The hand-loom weaver on the eve of his long decline was much more likely to have been a Methodist than was the mule spinner of the new generation proletariat . |
| 6 | Nor is this likely to have been a novel feature of the tenth and eleventh centuries , whose rulers were building on traditions of public authority already old . |
| 7 | It is just as likely to have been a Turkish Cypriot farmer moving too far south . |
| 8 | Abimelech , the Philistine king ( 26:1 ) : the name is probably a family or throne-name , this is therefore likely to have been a later king than the one Abraham encountered ( 20–21 ) . |
| 9 | Deprived after Nechtansmere of the land and tribute from the Picts and Irish which probably underlay such power , Northumbria is likely to have been a poorer as well as a less dominant kingdom . |
| 10 | But the massive post-election bomb in London is likely to have been an each-way bet planned well in advance . |
| 11 | In the two volunteers reported to have HLA-B35 this octamer is likely to have been the minimal epitope . |
| 12 | In the context of the current study the relevant distractor items are likely to have been the other exemplars of a particular junction . |
| 13 | This is likely to have been the lower valve , and fossils are sometimes found in ‘ life position ’ , which confirms this . |
| 14 | Dornford Lane is much more likely to have been the former main road into Woodstock from Banbury which developed after 1154–74 , when Woodstock was founded as a royal town by Henry II . |
| 15 | Although the combination of recession and high interest rates is likely to have been the main cause of this rise in defaults , the much more moderate increase in company failures and mortgage arrears which accompanied the more severe downturn and higher interest rates of 1980–81 period suggests that other factors may also have been important . |
| 16 | If the criminal was the same in each case , was not the motive likely to have been the same ? |