Example sentences of "was likely [prep] [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , no rooms were locked in the houses , whereas in hospital environments , and in particular special units , between 15–35 per cent of the living unit was likely to be unavailable to clients . |
| 2 | I knew from my family history I was likely to be vulnerable to cancer and luckily it was diagnosed and treated in time . |
| 3 | Given his attitude , then , Beveridge was likely to be favourable towards a retirement condition . |
| 4 | In the small village churches where he worshipped , the singing and organ playing was likely to be intolerable to somebody with an acute musical sensibility . |
| 5 | The appointment of Shulamit Aloni , leader of the Meretz grouping , as Minister of Education was likely to be controversial in religious circles . |
| 6 | We were working towards her rehabilitation ; at the time she was co-operative and relaxed , and there were no indications she was likely to be involved in that sort of incident . ’ |
| 7 | With many farm products now overproduced this was likely to be one of the main thrusts of training in the future . |
| 8 | I did not believe that he was likely to be one of my examiners in Finals , and this turned out to be true . |
| 9 | Was the model of learning , which emphasised an interactive approach , appropriate for many board members whose experience of learning was likely to be one of transmission of knowledge by an ‘ expert ’ ? |
| 10 | In the longer term , however , especially with the accumulation of thermo-nuclear weapons by both superpowers , the problem was likely to be one of nuclear stalemate . |
| 11 | I nodded and did n't tell him that , apart from my school days , my working French had been learned in stables , not kitchens , and was likely to be rusty in any case . |
| 12 | One class I proposed to visit , but was warned off as only one member was likely to be interested in a workers movement , all the others were retired from professions and it was thought I ( a gardener ) might offend them … |
| 13 | She had talked to me about Tom and Oliver , but only , it seemed , because she thought my children were all I was likely to be interested in . |
| 14 | Therefore , the sort of person attracted to work in the bureaucracy on the implementation of such programmes was likely to be sympathetic to them and their commitment to the programmes was likely to grow rather than diminish with time . |
| 15 | This was assumed to mean that before the British Parliament was asked to ratify , there would need to be a clear plan for addressing the Danish veto which was likely to be acceptable to the Danish people . |