Example sentences of "[be] unlikely to have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But United 's trip to Hillsborough today will provide Fergie with a more revealing test of Cantona 's mettle , because Wednesday fans are unlikely to have forgiven or forgotten his walkout on the Owls 11 months ago . |
| 2 | Denmark had in Cnut 's day only recently been converted to Christianity , and these authors are unlikely to have possessed much in the way of early documentary material , although like English historians they fairly clearly knew oral traditions which need not always have been groundless . |
| 3 | If this seems like a catalogue of disaster , do n't be discouraged : you are unlikely to have hit all of these problems on your first outing , and forewarned is forearmed . |
| 4 | Even now we are unlikely to have discovered the biggest that exists . |
| 5 | It is also an immensely difficult decision for the doctor , who will have established over time a relationship of confidence with all but the most severely unfit of his patients ( who anyway are unlikely to have expressed a view ) , which confidence will be shattered if the patient 's request is ignored , thereby adding , if possible , to the unhappiness of the patient . |
| 6 | In the latter case the special appliances are unlikely to have increased the value of his property , and so he can recover their cost in full . |
| 7 | Therefore the MPs in question are unlikely to have lined up lucrative jobs that preclude the hard slog of putting black upon white . |
| 8 | Such plots are unlikely to have provided all the necessary food for their inhabitants , so not surprisingly traces of fields have been identified which predate the late cemetery in the Northover suburb . |
| 9 | Top growth will be dead , but frosts are unlikely to have penetrated deeply . |
| 10 | Although the figures relate to 1991 , she did add that things are unlikely to have changed much this year . |
| 11 | Just as the barbarians themselves seem to have changed their policies about settlement , so too the Romans are unlikely to have had a monolithic system for settling the barbarians within the Roman Empire . |
| 12 | This is not a selective bibliography , since the authors write that they ‘ … have tried to track down all available products … ’ ( though they are unlikely to have succeeded ) . |
| 13 | In 1985 , 21,838 women received reduced rates of benefits , of whom an estimated 78 per cent would have been unlikely to have had any independent entitlement to any other benefit , thus rendering them economically dependent upon their partners ( unpublished statistics , DHSS , 1986 ) . |
| 14 | From the extracts to which I have ventured to refer it is clear that equity would have been unlikely to have considered that there was any duty upon the creditors and their solicitors to do more than they in fact did in the circumstances of that case . |
| 15 | In short , tariffs by themselves would have been unlikely to have provided little more than a temporary palliative to ailing industries over the period under review . |
| 16 | Furthermore , a body lost in Portsmouth Harbour a year previously would have washed out to sea long ago and , in any case , would be unlikely to have turned up in Chichester Harbour . |
| 17 | However , since at this stage you will be unlikely to have purchased one , this really belongs in the category of investment decisions . |
| 18 | In considering the possible effects of soot on global climate , the models suggest that since the soot did not reach the stratosphere ( around 14–15 km in this region ) , where it could have remained for several years , the fires were unlikely to have caused significant global climate effects . |
| 19 | It seems reasonable to conclude that employers and managers were unlikely to have missed the message but had consciously rejected it . |
| 20 | Such concerns were unlikely to have interrupted the deliberations of the police when , spurred on by the News of the World , they raided It 's offices at Indica in Southampton Row . |
| 21 | Most people in Islington , councillors included , were unlikely to have read The Fish Report or to be aware of the arguments put forward in it . |
| 22 | Charles is unlikely to have suffered much in physical or intellectual terms from his enforced brief stay . |
| 23 | This may have been so , but it is unlikely to have become significant until the post-war depression in cereal prices , the adverse influence of demobilisation on labour supply and the accumulating impact of the rising birth rate began to exert a combined effect after 1816 . |
| 24 | The conclusions of the Black report are confirmed insofar as they relate to malignant disease occurring in young people between 1963 and 1983 ; on the basis of the six cases included in table III we conclude that the excess in Seascale is unlikely to have arisen by chance ( table VII ) . |
| 25 | Suppose we try out the following definition : a complex thing is something whose constituent parts are arranged in a way that is unlikely to have arisen by chance alone . |
| 26 | ‘ If a sensible Government would release adequate funding for higher education institutions — not least to maintain things like the Torrie Collection — then a situation like this is unlikely to have arisen . |
| 27 | But he is unlikely to have foreseen the next blow . |
| 28 | Although lack of randomisation may introduce bias , a bias relating to cancer is unlikely to have influenced either referral of patients to our clinic or choice of treatment within the clinic . |
| 29 | Spectrum bias is unlikely to have influenced our results for two reasons : ( 1 ) almost all the asthmatics agreed to be studied ( only 6% refused endoscopy ) and ( 2 ) one quarter of the asthmatics did not require chronic bronchodilator therapy , indicating that not all the patients had severe asthma . |
| 30 | Age is unlikely to have influenced the findings or the conclusions of our study , because all the tests and comparisons were carried out on the same group of patients . |