Example sentences of "likely to [be] [adv] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This raises the question of exactly what kinds of experience are likely to be most helpful to a child who is experiencing difficulties with language and communication . |
| 2 | This chapter comes after the chapter on writing the essay because it is likely to be most useful to you when you come to re-read and correct what you have written . |
| 3 | As awareness of the importance of pensions continues to grow , particularly among older employees who are likely to be most valuable to you , a good pension scheme becomes a big help in a competitive labour market . |
| 4 | Find out which of the above programmes and their producers are likely to be most sympathetic to your style of music and remember the following : |
| 5 | Genetic effects of radiation are likely to be predominantly due to damage induced in the DNA molecular structure . |
| 6 | The staff admit that a sudden rise in entrances to the zoo was likely to be largely due to an interest by the public who wanted to visit it before it finally closed and they agree that problems remain for the future . |
| 7 | Acceptance of any of the patterns of responsiveness outlined above will suggest that the bureaucracy is not likely to be particularly responsive to a largely unorganized ‘ general public ’ and , in most contemporary forms of democracy much will depend on the ability of the people 's representatives to publicize their grievances . |
| 8 | Such animals are likely to be equally sensitive to the electromagnetic waves created by a storm . |
| 9 | In that the directors are often likely to be better disposed to the workforce than are the shareholders this may be of some practical importance . |
| 10 | In short , of the rules and generalisations that could be made about conveying attitudes through intonation , those which are not actually wrong are likely to be too trivial to be worth learning . |
| 11 | It is important to be able to think about what has taken place once the session is over and to know that all the things you said were a product of your own subconscious and therefore likely to be extremely relevant to your own development . |
| 12 | Public goods are likely to be especially vulnerable to the free-rider problem if they are supplied by the private sector . |
| 13 | Using an electromagnetic modelling method called method of moments , AEA Technology discovered that one particular antenna on a satellite was likely to be highly susceptible to interference from other antennas on the same satellite , and its design was adjusted during the initial design phase . |
| 14 | Because information needs in business are likely to be highly specific to a company , and even to individuals within companies , a reputation as a trusted source should be developed on a basis of a good understanding of firms ' market positions , products , exports markets , and competitors at home and abroad . |
| 15 | But this is hardly likely to be very enlightening to someone who has never had , or is incapable of conceiving the relevant experience . |
| 16 | By contrast , perceptions that verge on being attitudes are likely to be more resistant to change and more dependent upon individuals ' partisan backgrounds — their pre-existing sense of party identification , and their use of partisan news sources such as right-wing ( or leftwing ) papers . |
| 17 | Their use is therefore better suited to environments such as the rhizosphere/soil , protected crops , or tropical conditions ( eg paddy fields ) , where the water potential is likely to be more amenable to spore germination and growth . |
| 18 | But the , the link between sex and reproduction is always likely to be more critical to a woman So , so , so you see th th the point I 'm making is these insights seem to me to be to have a kind of relevance to er women 's experience of sex that is some ways greater than it is to male males can you know once they 've done their fertilizing work , they 're , they 're really through as far as erm as far as biology is concerned , not perhaps as far as social . |
| 19 | recipients likely to be more susceptible to , or prefer , the message to be verbally delivered |
| 20 | Yet senior staff and field men alike are aware of the fact that most dischargers are likely to be more sympathetic to an approach to standard setting and enforcement based on equity . |
| 21 | It may be an advantage for the expert 's decision of which enforcement is sought to be accompanied by reasons , because the foreign court is likely to be more sympathetic to enforcing it in that form . |
| 22 | This committee was likely to be more responsive to lobbying and pressure from parents of children already in ‘ mainstream ’ schools and from the huge workforce in mainstream and specialist education . |
| 23 | In view of what you have just said , are you likely to be more generous to members of the Whips Office who may wish to speak in a debate ? |
| 24 | In line with his unprescriptive manner of teaching about how to develop contemplative life which is governed by his awareness of the intensely individual nature of discretionary achievement , Hilton is deliberately leaving his terms open , or using those likely to be directly applicable to actives , so that the recipient should not be constrained by definitions as he develops in his contemplative life . |
| 25 | And evening classes are a good idea but more for a general grounding in computing in general as there are not likely to be directly relevant to your hardware and software . |
| 26 | The operative differentiation in poetry is between practical and poetic language , but this is obviously likely to be less pertinent to prose . |