Example sentences of "unlikely to [be] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The defect in the Act which the reintroduction of the intention to incite racial hatred was intended to remedy was that where the recipient of the material was for one reason or another unlikely to be moved to racial hatred , no offence was committed . |
| 2 | Agribusinessmen , for example , are unlikely to be moved by permissive policies : for them the creation of a desired landscape must either be profitable or unavoidable . |
| 3 | For parasites whose offspring infect the offspring of their host ( vertical transmission ) , any behaviour by the parasite that decreases the fecundity of its host ( and thereby that of the parasite itself ) is unlikely to be favoured by natural selection . |
| 4 | The main oil fields in production are the Bombay High off the west coast and some onshore fields in Gujerat and Assam but with consumption expected to rise at some 6% per year this aim is unlikely to be achieved without significant new discoveries . |
| 5 | As any professional practice or department becomes more successful , its expansion is unlikely to be achieved without growing pains . |
| 6 | These high-pitched sounds are unlikely to be heard by passing fish , however , because although a few species , such as minnows , can hear as high as 8000 hertz , the majority are most sensitive to low frequencies and hear little above 500 hertz . |
| 7 | With no more than fourteen university lecturers in the whole country with a knowledge between them of five South Asian languages , there was clearly a dearth of linguistic knowledge in higher education which was unlikely to be rectified through new appointments , given the shortfalls in funding . |
| 8 | The ruling means that a lot of people , most of them women , are unlikely to be compensated for serious psychological damage done to them at very young ages . ’ |
| 9 | They took mackintoshes and heavy greatcoats , anticipating that Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 's dream of perennial sunshine was unlikely to be fulfilled for lesser voyagers . |
| 10 | It is unlikely to be resolved in black and white terms . |
| 11 | However , a portable 's speed is n't a primary requirement , as it is unlikely to be used for high volumes of work . |
| 12 | Those means would be extra-parliamentary ; they would be unlikely to be confined to constitutional and lawful action and it would not be difficult to mount persuasive moral arguments for such activities . |
| 13 | The prospects for newly-qualifieds seeking that first step up the ladder is unlikely to be helped by new EC regulations expected to be adopted next month which will abolish the ‘ Age 60 ’ retirement rule . |
| 14 | In particular , reward structures are unlikely to be correlated with long-term returns ; in fact managerial compensation is likely to be based on performance over a two- or three-year period . |
| 15 | Muscle relaxation was not affected by tetrodotoxin and therefore unlikely to be mediated by neural elements . |
| 16 | In Britain bone mass screening is unlikely to be introduced on public health grounds , but interest will continue as screening is popular with the public , politicians , equipment manufacturers , drug companies , and organisations allocating research grants . |
| 17 | A determined social ‘ agnostic ’ of Dick Crossman 's type is as unlikely to be deterred by minatory finger-wagging as by the pre-report situation . |
| 18 | But true salesmen are unlikely to be deterred by mere realism . |
| 19 | The study found , however , that those with company-subsidised cars were unlikely to be attracted by cheap public transport . |