Example sentences of "they be likely to [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a typical 20-storey building has a frequency of 0.5 hertz , and taller buildings have even lower frequencies , they are likely to be beyond the range of resonance . |
| 2 | People are avoided if they are likely to be at all stressful ; phone-calls go unreturned ; even social events that would normally be pleasurable and fun may feel like yet more demands on a person 's time . |
| 3 | There nevertheless remain some aspects of the scheme which demonstrate how difficult it seems to be for government to jettison the original ideas of the Beveridge Report ; for example , the Invalid Care Allowance ( ICA ) , which was introduced as recently as 1976 , is not payable to married women on the grounds that they are likely to be at home anyway and hence not in need of compensation for giving up paid work in order to care for a chronically sick person in their household ( Groves and Finch , 1983 ) ; the tax system ( which is not under detailed discussion here ) still assumes that all men need an additional allowance to help pay for the cost of ‘ keeping ’ a wife . |
| 4 | 4.32 Employees must no go unaccompanied into a situation where they are likely to be at personal risk . |
| 5 | But they are likely to be of greater strategic than employment significance , and there will be losses . |
| 6 | They are likely to be in debt to their record company for a number of years . |
| 7 | They are likely to be in their mid-30s with relatively larger families ( just under 2 children ) . |
| 8 | Initially , if they belonged to the Church of England , they were likely to be of the evangelical tendency so disturbing to comfortable Anglican parsons and laymen . |
| 9 | They also regarded their influence as a finite resource to be husbanded , used on major issues , and not frittered away on minor skirmishes or issues on which they were likely to be in a minority in Cabinet . |
| 10 | Obviously most firms would readily sacrifice some profit if it meant that they were likely to be in business for some time . |