Example sentences of "of [pers pn] be likely to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we return to the example of our widget-making factory after the introduction of the new production process , with half its workforce put on to the labour market ( or , putting it more bluntly , sacked ) , then many of them are likely to be eligible for unemployment benefit . |
| 2 | Not to imitate it , of course , but to gauge whether any of them are likely to be interested in the kind of work you write . |
| 3 | With most major life events , it is likely to be very difficult both to identify people who have recently experienced an event and find out which of them are likely to be susceptible to psychiatric disorder as a consequence . |
| 4 | It is not known exactly where the birds end up , although some of them are likely to be eaten as game by African farmers . |
| 5 | If there are , for example , 11,000 accident repairers in the UK , most of them are likely to be small ; one-man operations or not much bigger . |
| 6 | A prime mover of Art Nouveau was A. H. Mackmurdo , but so were many famous artists — from Aubrey Beardsley , book illustrator , to Henri Guimard , designer of Paris Métro stations ; from the glassware of Louis Conford Tiffany to the architecture of Antoni Gaudi and early Frank Lloyd Wright — that any list of them is likely to be incomplete . |
| 7 | On top of this , a degree of diplomacy is necessary for the job , as much of it is likely to be spent resolving various forms of disagreement between client and agency . |