Example sentences of "likely to be [verb] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Black juveniles are more likely to be prosecuted and less likely to be cautioned than white juveniles . |
| 2 | Black youth were more likely to be prosecuted and less likely to be cautioned than white youth . |
| 3 | The fact that a spoken context of utterance is constructed from a written text emphasises the separation between the real and the fictional enunciations : the referents of the personal pronouns in the text are likely to be perceived as fictive personae , while author and reader are not directly present or involved in the constructed text world . |
| 4 | Unattributed assertions in news stories and headlines are likely to be received as factual , while criticism expressed in personlised columns is more likely to be regarded as opinion , especially when it appears to be an inference drawn by the columnist from facts to which reference has been made . |
| 5 | Indeed , in social systems where the position of social rebels is not recognized , such as that of Soviet Russia , you are likely to be reckoned as insane anyway . |
| 6 | But the paraphernalia of better light bulbs , lean-burn engines and cavity-wall insulation with which the North supports its arguments are likely to be dismissed as irrelevant in parts of the world which for the most part have no need for cavity walls . |
| 7 | The changes in behaviour which are needed are not unrealistic , but they are more likely to be adopted if large scale health education programmes take account of the diversity of human nature . |
| 8 | The scope of this provision , which is examined later in this book , is unclear , but it would seem that both categories of standard terms identified in Schroeder may fall into the definition of " written standard terms " ; however , those in the first category are more likely to be regarded as reasonable than those in the second . |
| 9 | Indeed , wherever assistance is defined as a gift ( rather than , for example , part of a broader pattern of exchange ) , it is likely to be regarded as inappropriate that the potential beneficiary should behave in an instrumental way towards the potential donor . |
| 10 | A person is permitted under the section to argue that he was unaware that his conduct was likely to be regarded as disorderly by those who witness what he is doing . |
| 11 | The opinion , which comes ten years after a joint opinion by Arden and Leonard Hoffman QC and which supersedes it , not only concludes that standards are likely to be accepted as authoritative by the courts but that they are likely to accept that that compliance with abstracts of the UITF ‘ is also necessary to meet the true and fair requirement ’ . |
| 12 | Another important exception can be found in Grieco 's ( 1987 ) data on the use of kin networks to secure employment , where she found that relatives as distant as cousins were as likely to be involved as close kin in arrangements which brought a number of male and female kin into the same workplace or firm . |
| 13 | This minor affair underlined the Army 's contention that nuclear weapons and air power were no substitute for troops on the ground in the type of fighting in which Britain was likely to be involved as long as she remained a colonial power . |
| 14 | Social class and rural-urban contrasts , and different relations with British colonial states and education systems , are very likely to be involved as causal influences here , and Swann could well have commissioned research to explore some of the underlying issues . |
| 15 | A third party may of course make diplomatic representations or bring pressure to bear upon a State to perform what it perceives to be that State 's treaty obligations with another State , although such action is likely to be resented as unwarranted interference in external affairs . |
| 16 | Stringent regulations are likely to be imposed if voluntary agreement is not forthcoming . |
| 17 | The latter alternative is preferable since it is more likely to be seen as constructive and thus win support ( see Building on page 25 ) . |
| 18 | For the professional footballer whose plans and aspirations require physical fitness , an accident involving a permanent disability is likely to be seen as disastrous . |
| 19 | If internal criticism is unwelcome , the views of outsiders are even more likely to be seen as hostile and derogatory . |
| 20 | The wider the conception of poverty , the greater the number of people who are likely to be viewed as poor and the greater the policy problem in alleviating poverty . |
| 21 | The invitation , like last year 's to Enoch Powell , is likely to be viewed as controversial . |
| 22 | People of European origin were less likely to be tortured than black people . |
| 23 | Because corporate crimes are hardly likely to be described as heinous in the media , few consciences are outraged and scandalized ; consequently , the ingredients which deterrent theorists argue are necessary to achieve a specific deterrent effect do not typically exist . |
| 24 | 1986a ) demonstrates that male users are more likely to be known than female users , especially to legal agencies such as the police and the probation service . |
| 25 | The warning is likely to be delivered though diplomatic channels in New York , probably early next week , though the issue was raised when US officers met their Iraqi counterparts in Kurdistan . |
| 26 | This can be illustrated from a wide variety of cases : the uses of literacy for social control in nineteenth century Canada , for instance , where any ‘ critical ’ element was carefully excluded ( Graff , 1979 ) ; the restriction of the content of written forms to religious tracts by the Methodist missionaries who introduced literacy to Fiji in the nineteenth century ( Clammer , 1976 ) ; the examples from British literacy campaigns that show how illiteracy developed in schools because of the class-based nature of schooling ( Mace , 1979 ) ; the uses of literacy for religious and symbolic purposes in Ghana ( Goody , 1968 ) ; the greater trust placed by thirteenth century knights in England on seals and symbols as means of legitimating charters and rights to land and their suspicion of the written document as more likely to be forged and inaccurate ( Clanchy , 1979 ) ; the development in Iranian villages of forms of literacy taught in Koranic schools into forms of literacy appropriate for commercial trading in a rapidly modernising and urbanising economy ( Section 2 ) . |
| 27 | Clearly , a company 's senior executives may become lethargic where shareholder pressure is lacking , and profitability is likely to be prejudiced where incompetent directors are effectively unremovable . |
| 28 | The hit single ‘ Losing My Religion ’ is likely to be read as self-reflection on REM 's position in the worldwide musical scheme of things , doubt and discomfort at the prospect of unwanted disciples : ‘ Oh no , I 've said too much/I have n't said enough ’ is the paradox that runs throughout . |
| 29 | If the UDF win more seats Francois Leotard seems likely to be chosen as prime minister , particularly if his Republican party performs well in the elections . |
| 30 | Any political pursuit of ideals of the good is likely to be botched and distorted . |