Example sentences of "likely [prep] be [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course the response which is likely to be made to such objections is that God works with human beings , so that only when human society has reached a certain stage of development does it become appropriate to ordain women . |
| 2 | Local authority loans for house purchase are more likely to be made to manual groups and they tend to concentrate on the purchase of older dwellings . |
| 3 | Indeed , their different uses have been investigated by Sanford , Moar & Garrod ( 1988 ; Garrod & Sanford 1990 ) , who showed that pronominal references in continuations are more likely to be made to proper-named characters , and that characters introduced by proper name are more easily accessed for anaphoric reference , as indexed by self-paced reading time . |
| 4 | [ That this House regrets the Government 's failure to deal with the imminent threat of wholesale breaches of the law on Sunday trading ; expresses concern that Ministers appear to be running away from their responsibility to uphold the law as soon as one or more large commercial organisations express their intention to ignore the law ; greatly regrets the way that this situation puts pressure on responsible and law-abiding retailers to open on Sundays simply to protect their market share ; further regrets the damage that is likely to be done to small shops and family businesses as a consequence ; considers that sensible progress to modernising the law should be made on the basis of the REST proposals put forward by Keep Sunday Special ; and calls on the Government actively to pursue the regulation of Sunday trading in a way which deals fairly with employees , their families and with community and commercial interests . ] |
| 5 | I applaud and support the efforts by Bill Bates , food safety consultant at Control UK , in his attempts to get an arbitration board set up , but have reservations about the priority likely to be given to this by food minister , David Maclean . |
| 6 | If it were for students in Writing , Publishing and Communications then more emphasis is likely to be given to editorial aids and to the structure of the publishing industry . |
| 7 | Twins are more likely to be born to older mothers who already have several children ; they are likely to be born prematurely and/or have difficult births . |
| 8 | The NHS is into an era of capital charging , which is likely to be extended to other public sector bodies , including some ( such as universities ) which are formally autonomous . |
| 9 | If successful , the policy is likely to be extended to other branches around the country . |
| 10 | Clearly , the existence of timber decay is likely to be related to other shortcomings in the condition of the building and these faults may require rectification in addition to treatment of the timber . |
| 11 | The attitudes of women to work in the home are very likely to be related to other attitudes they hold — such as those to paid employment , to marriage , to child-socialization , to leisure activities and so on . |
| 12 | Sometimes these triggering events are related to physical ageing , but are just as likely to be related to personal changes , such as a death in the family . |
| 13 | Today 's games received an extra boost last night when Rugby Union secretary Dudley Wood revealed that this summer 's England tour of Canada and the US looks likely to be upgraded to full Test status . |
| 14 | In the context of this article , the need for a multi-national to engage in this sort of activity is likely to be limited to those occasions when the customer demands it for his own reasons , or where trading relationships have been established that would be threatened if one customer knew of the other 's existence . |
| 15 | Governments have to govern people , and not only do their policies have a direct impact on the population at large , and are likely to be shaped to some degree by an awareness of what that impact might be , but policies can also be a response to pressures or problems that emerge out of society . |
| 16 | When emeralds began to be cut , lapidaries found that their qualities were likely to be displayed to best advantage by step-cutting , and this method is still widely used for this stone , though brilliant cutting is sometimes applied . |
| 17 | Not only is the social distance between service providers and clients reduced but service practices are more likely to be adapted to local needs when paraprofessionals are employed in front-line service roles . |
| 18 | Access to the system is nearly always indirect and therefore slow , and likely to be confined to certain times because of a need to load the payroll or manpower tapes within the computer centre . |
| 19 | In the immediate future , the biological synthesis of specific products is likely to be confined to bacterial cultures under strictly controlled conditions . |
| 20 | Despite the all-party Social Services Committee report which criticised the pace at which Mr Kenneth Clarke , the Health Secretary , intended to introduce the reforms , as much as the proposals themselves , Tory dissent is likely to be confined to those rebels with detailed knowledge . |
| 21 | It appears that most , if not all , trade unions offer some form of legal advice service to members although it is likely to be restricted to those matters which touch directly on employment . |
| 22 | In cases where the terms are likely to be subjected to such scrutiny , they must therefore be sufficiently balanced to be acceptable to the client 's trading partners . |
| 23 | What are the farmers in the drawing likely to be saying to one another when they meet at market ? |
| 24 | They are most likely to be attached to primary schools in areas of social need , or to special schools . |