Example sentences of "[verb] be not likely " in BNC.
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| 1 | There Engels more or less tells us that the scheme presented is not likely to be changed by new discoveries . |
| 2 | coast of Benbecula and S. Uist ( Ritchie , 1966 , 1979 , 1985 ; Currie , 1979 ) also suggest that the frequency of westerly storms must have been less prior to 4000 B.P. As Currie ( 1979 p. 227 ) suggests , ‘ the stumps remaining are not likely to be an indication of forest , but rather the evidence of such sheltered locations where small woods survived the climatic conditions , often in areas which are now submerged by the sea ’ . |
| 3 | It is also desirable to establish that the owners of the business to be sold are not likely to have irreconcilable differences among themselves over what the selling price should be . |
| 4 | The victims being weak , vulnerable , or simply law abiding are not likely as a result to resort to violence , however great the provocation by threats , abuse or insults . |
| 5 | But , as you will realise , the amount of money involved is not likely to be very large . |
| 6 | The market research survey to find out what brand of toothpaste housewives prefer is not likely to be based on very much sociological theory . |
| 7 | But what the screens revealed was not likely to make me feel easy . |
| 8 | Indeed , the profit figure that is required is not likely to be the one in the financial statements : that is forever a bygone . |