Example sentences of "likely to be [verb] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Short-term gains by cheating are likely to be offset by long-term losses that may affect one 's offspring and those of relatives . |
| 2 | Whenever they reached an island that was likely to be visited by European sailors again , they would release a few pigs , to run wild , multiply and form a permanent supply of protein — on islands seemingly not well provisioned for humans . |
| 3 | Clearly , borrowers have to weigh up the pros and cons of each mortgage offer — greater flexibility in one area of the lending terms is likely to be balanced by restrictive conditions in another area . |
| 4 | The greater the excess supply of labour ( the higher is unemployment ) , the greater will be the downward pressure on wages , though this is likely to be tempered by institutional resistance to wage cuts . |
| 5 | His reply to the expected criticism is that ideals must be striven for particularly now since ‘ in a position in which old peoples and old cultures are likely to be supplanted by new — we are in a common danger to all races over the whole circumference of the globe ’ . |
| 6 | Its continuation is likely to be confirmed by European soccer 's governing body at a special meeting next Thursday . |
| 7 | A second consequence is that malperformance is particularly likely to be revealed by differential treatment ( in the case of corruption it is of course assumed that it is not revealed ) . |
| 8 | They may suffer long delays in reaching hospital and are likely to be treated by junior doctors , says a survey of 15,000 victims , carried out at 33 hospitals . |
| 9 | The best time to get people to talk about themselves is when you are sitting around the table over a meal or having tea , and when they are relaxed and are not likely to be diverted by other activities . |
| 10 | Women , it appears , are more likely to be stimulated by written and less explicit material . |
| 11 | The access of individuals to jobs is also likely to be affected by parental earnings and wealth . |
| 12 | It does appear that the non-enrollers were more likely to be affected by personal circumstances than the migrants . |
| 13 | The disciplines of sociology and philosophy are threatened by Mannheim 's proposals since , in his account , they are the formal and scientific disciplines whose topics mean they are the most likely to be affected by non-theoretical factors . |
| 14 | The effectiveness of formal control devices such as financial targets coupled with monitoring of performance is likely to be affected by institutional variables such as the quality of information produced and the arrangements made by controlling agencies to gain access to it . |
| 15 | The advantages are that manufacturing costs ( and final retail prices ) are kept down marginally , and the batteries are less likely to be affected by damp . |
| 16 | The Constitution provided for a 200-member lower house and a 81-member upper house ; the former would be identical to the current Czech parliament , while the latter was likely to be filled by Czech members of the federal parliament . |
| 17 | Conversely , emotional or mental problems can arise from a physical cause , as was the case with the victim of the instant coffee , and this is even less likely to be recognized by orthodox practitioners . |
| 18 | Women , being closer to nature because of their biology , were more likely to be overcome by powerful feelings , and the burden therefore fell upon women to control themselves , for their good and for the good of all around them . |
| 19 | It has certainly reminded us that the decade is likely to be characterised by low growth and tight competition , and that retailers need to be positioned with a low cost base , flexible work-force and strong retail formats to meet the challenges of the next few years . |
| 20 | Dismissing all but a single guard who was burdened with a lantern on a pole , he began to lead them by the bridges and passageways which cut across the streets in a way which was arguably more direct and certainly less likely to be barred by persistent celebrants . |
| 21 | Drug agencies and family planning specialists were much more likely to be contacted by secondary than primary schools . |
| 22 | Both the direction and the rate of technical advance are likely to be influenced by economic variables , including taxation and government expenditure . |
| 23 | She wrote to the Archbishops of Canterbury and York , but both declined to appear as witnesses in the trial , Dr Coggan arguing that a jury were far more likely to be influenced by ordinary people testifying to the poem 's blasphemous nature than by ‘ professional ’ Church leaders . |
| 24 | Because regional health authorities will be concerned to prioritise resources , especially in the market-driven planning now prevalent in the national health service , they are more likely to be influenced by financial consideration than the clinical needs of a nursing staff trained in all specialties . |
| 25 | The individual woman must somehow find her own approach to beauty , an image which is likely to be influenced by cultural expectations , by her own natural attributes , her personality , and by her current stage of life . |
| 26 | In our experiment , we controlled for intermale and interfemale competition by excluding responses when more than one bird was near the model , but because crest size is also correlated with dominance in both sexes and aggressive competition for mates is frequent ( I.L.J. , unpublished data ) , crest ornament size is likely to be favoured by intrasexual competition as well as by mating preference . |
| 27 | Our experiments indicate that crested auklet ornament size is likely to be favoured by sexual selection involving mutual mate choice by both sexes . |
| 28 | Fred Couples is a welcome addition to this year 's World Cup of Golf by Philip Morris , but the event is still likely to be plagued by slow play . |
| 29 | It is appropriate to reiterate that where economic and social conditions are favourable and medical care available and sufficiently advanced , child health is less likely to be impaired by improper spacing . |
| 30 | Free movement of labour is likely to be hindered by cultural , linguistic , and social security differences ( see Turner 1989 ) . |