Example sentences of "is very likely to [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The academy is responsible for issuing funding for postgraduate work in humanities , and their proposal is very likely to be implemented by Whitehall . |
| 2 | A similar situation is very likely to be repeated in years to come . |
| 3 | For all of this , you might well expect to pay a premium price , but with a recommended price of £149 , which is very likely to be discounted to under the £100 mark , DesignWorks lies in the ‘ affordable ’ bracket . |
| 4 | The present rate for the Earth is such that a crater over 10 km diameter is very likely to be produced somewhere on dry land at some time over the next 200 000 years . |
| 5 | If he happens to take his eye of the ball , he is very likely to be bowled , and if he hits the ball it may go to any point on the ground where the possibilities of making runs , being caught or surviving an appeal to the umpire are all on the cards . |
| 6 | For example , a collision between a pedestrian and a car is very likely to be described by a speaker as a boy being run over by a car , rather than as a car knocking a boy down . |