Example sentences of "it [is] [adv] likely that [det] " in BNC.

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1 The Tour may now display a hero , but it 's also likely that this long and complicated race shelters a secret .
2 Some kind of social democracy in Russia , erm on the other hand in central Asia as for example , I think it 's quite likely that former communists , although they may disavow their former allegiance , will in practice take over as national communist parties and continue to run their economies , well there will be private economies but with a large state sector and run on a pretty tight reign .
3 calcium hydroxide hydrogen chloride you get calcium chloride formed and you got this thing well it 's quite likely that this does form initially , but it does n't last very long and it 's not very stable and it
4 Most of the ninety two naturally occurring elements , that 's leaving aside the , the elements that have been created artificially in particle accelerators and things , have been found in sea water and it 's quite likely that those that have n't yet been recorded from sea water will be recorded as our analeti er as our analytical techniques get better .
5 It is thus likely that many ( perhaps most ) villages are relative latecomers to the English landscape .
6 It is nevertheless likely that more middle class women accepted than resisted the experts ' view of their physiology and psychology , though they may also have passed those views through their own filter .
7 Now that the Institution 's policy for the provision of part-time education has been made clear for , say , the next ten years , it is most likely that all new entrants to the profession will be studying for surveying degrees or diplomas and the profession will have finally become a graduate one .
8 However , it is most likely that many expert tasks are also soon to be taken over by machines .
9 Although there are other possible sources , it is most likely that these lines are an echo of Pope 's comments on Martha Blount 's celibacy :
10 It is increasingly likely that many of the lessons learnt at Wharram Percy apply to settlements elsewhere in the country .
11 However it is also likely that many ‘ wifely ’ tasks such as teamaking and the bosses ' shopping disappear , and that typists gain some protection from sexual harassment as they increasingly become machine operators , tied to work stations .
12 It is also likely that some very disturbed dementing patients will require specialised nursing care at a day hospital , which can also provide specialist assessment and treatment .
13 It is also likely that some tailoring of the system will be necessary for a different application .
14 It is also likely that this view is a departure from earlier law , in which it is not attested .
15 You may not think that you have a problem , but in a company of even modest size it is statistically likely that some employees will have a drink problem .
16 It is very likely that several attempts will be necessary on the first application , during which time continuing control of the original may be vital .
17 It is hardly likely that this could have been true of the greatest of them , Whittington , because his father had died with his estate encumbered by an outlawry incurred in a plea of debt .
18 The knights were never more than one arm of any fighting force ; and it is hardly likely that any force of knights was ever recruited entirely by ‘ feudal ’ means .
19 It is highly likely that this agglutinin is fibrinogen ( Gartner et al , 1980 ; Berndt & Phillips , 1981 ) .
20 Even less is known about the usefulness of books which are located and borrowed , and it is quite likely that many of the titles thought to have answered a subject enquiry are not in fact found by the reader to be very useful at all .
21 It is quite likely that any new Angel will be ‘ greeted ’ by a resident one , but in a reasonable sized tank with plant cover I doubt there will be any lasting harm done .
22 If there is a significant change in the pattern of flows at one point , it is quite likely that this will cause further changes in contingent flows .
23 In the healthy and intact gastrointestinal tract , it is unlikely that substantial amounts of unabsorbed nutrients ever reach the colon in humans , and it is therefore likely that some other mechanism exists for the release of hormonal peptides from this region .
24 It is extremely likely that some of these detected features will not be present in the target , and so the detection of these non-target features in the mask will , via the inhibitory links from feature to letter level , turn off the activation in the target letter 's detector .
25 But it is still likely that many have only the broadest understanding of the changes .
26 The authors conclude that it is more likely that many other factors should also be included in the analysis such as motivation , nicotine dependence , personality type , self-efficacy , therapeutic support , etc , which act together in a complex way and would substantially increase the explained variance of smoking cessation .
27 It is more likely that such hoards will be found today simply because of their size , so we may be dealing with a higher rate of recovery for these hoards than is normal for hoards of other periods .
28 It is more likely that such a talent lay in site administration and the guidance of taste rather than in any practical work as craftsman , architect , or mason .
29 However the evidence suggests ( see pages 75–6 ) that it is more likely that this decision was reached at a later date , when the force of events made it seem imperative .
30 Despite these hints , it is more likely that those magnates of Childebert who encouraged Gundovald in 582 were men who had strong reservations about the king and his mother .
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