Example sentences of "be likely [prep] be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's good on Covermaster , but if you think you can keep your living assurance in line with inflation even when you 're likely to be coming into poor health , it is a brilliant concept . |
| 2 | Speak to your vet about castrating the dog since the problems in this case are likely to be resulting from an excess of sexual libido . |
| 3 | However , new academic journals are regularly launched , devoted to one or other of the many specialisms into which English is fragmenting , and in their earlier issues , at least , are likely to be looking for contributions . |
| 4 | You are likely to be looking for the relation between the variable part of the text ( called the INDEPENDENT VARIABLE because you are manipulating it by making changes ) and the variation in the response of the reader ( called the DEPENDENT VARIABLE , because it depends on the variation , or changes , made to the text ) . |
| 5 | The next issue is that we know that these prospective inward investors are likely to be looking for a site in reasonably attractive setting . |
| 6 | Carers are likely to be looking after a dying loved one for the first time in their life ; their anxieties may be greater than the patient 's . |
| 7 | If many students are likely to be moving from room to room , and even leaving the school altogether , some system of control and supervision will certainly be necessary so that no one gets lost , or is tempted to fritter away time or abscond . |
| 8 | But in most conversational contexts , if we think of an activity as connected with crime , we are likely to be thinking of an activity which is itself criminal ; and on the other hand , in all cases , activity which is itself criminal is by definition connected with crime . |
| 9 | In the current financial climate , which sees us wrestling with colleges managing their own budgets and , in our own authority , reeling from the outcome of poll-capping , the expenses involved in improving physical access are likely to be competing with numerous other worthy but expensive causes . |
| 10 | During the next few years children are likely to be engaging in more sustained projects as part of their learning of mathematics . |
| 11 | You are likely to be sleeping on the streets for a very long time . |
| 12 | This contact may be by post , by telephone or by personal meetings ; the choice will depend very much on how important you are to a magazine and the magazine to you and thus how often you are likely to be working with this particular publication , how physically near you are to each other and indeed how well you get on at a social level . |
| 13 | I am likely to be going to a Sports Dinner with my company ( who sponsor Crewe Alexandra ) this month . |
| 14 | Wherever there appears to be a ‘ mystique ’ about the interviewing — suggestions that these results were possible because of some mystical skills possessed by the interviewer — then one is likely to be moving from social science towards journalism , or special pleading at the very least . |
| 15 | An aspirant to membership of the developed club is likely to be accommodating about rainforests , the welfare of Amazonian Indians , the ozone layer and a climate convention . |
| 16 | This is likely to be damaging to the workers ( who lose pay ) and the firms involved ( who lose output , sales and profits ) . |
| 17 | New owners may have fewer qualms than long-serving managers about taking action of this kind which is likely to be damaging to the company 's employees and the wider host community . |
| 18 | I am happy that he is receiving education suitable to age , ability and aptitude at home , in fact , between ourselves , it is probably more appropriate and worthwhile than that which he is likely to be receiving at school — not through any fault in the local schools but because schools can not always provide ideal circumstances for all learning and certainly can not provide the context in which John is operating . |
| 19 | Despite Mr Dobbs 's tireless efforts , this is another revolution which Britain is likely to be viewing from the sidelines . |
| 20 | A This is difficult to predict but is likely to be happening in mid to late November . |
| 21 | If the new inspection chamber is to be positioned over an existing clay drain , the difficulty is likely to be cutting into the existing drain . |
| 22 | ‘ You know bloody well what sort of thing he 's likely to be referring to , Jim . ’ |