Example sentences of "were likely [prep] [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given the fact that less than 30 per cent of charges brought resulted in successful conviction ( when the rate for most other crimes was about 50 per cent ) , we may wonder how much substance there was in many of the accusations , or whether at times of political anxiety certain types of people were likely to be vulnerable to false accusations because they conformed to the popular stereotype of who a Jacobite was . |
| 2 | Care programming may come fairly low down the list of priorities for social services , especially as the 1992/93 community care plans were likely to be preoccupied with the other community care reforms to be instituted by April 1993 ( National Council for Voluntary Organisations , 1992 ) and because the first year of the plans was experimental and so they were probably cautious in their aims . |
| 3 | However , other workers who studied the effect of gliclazide in diabetic subjects have felt that the beneficial effects of gliclazide on platelet function were likely to be due to its hypoglycaemic action rather than to any direct effect on haemostatic function ( Paton et al , 1982 b ) . |
| 4 | By contrast , many hardened black marketeers were likely to be untouched by the decree since they tended to move their rouble profits into property , gold or dollars . |
| 5 | If even Pogodin had become an advocate of reform , friends of the status quo were likely to be thin on the ground . |
| 6 | Gone are the days when you were likely to be alone on the rim path , but if the five miles escarpment is included as part of a longer circuit of the vast moorland , walkers seeking solitude will find their fair share — and a good test of their navigation skills . |
| 7 | The research also found that children who tended to withdraw following the sibling 's birth were likely to be hostile during the ensuing years and their relationship was often conflictual . |