Example sentences of "[unc] [noun pl] be likely " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Selby there 's a demonstration taking place this afternoon it starts at half past one and will go via Barlby Road and Scott Road and some traffic delay delays are likely as a result . |
| 2 | If a section 38 agreement is not available , in due course the house purchaser 's solicitors are likely to hold a retention from the sale proceeds , pending adoption of the roads by the local authority . |
| 3 | Presented with such explicitly racist material and asked to make intellectual sense of it , most people 's reactions are likely to be anchored to positions in which they have an emotional and material stake . |
| 4 | As a safeguard , the Bank of Italy 's rules are likely to allow banks to take stakes in industry only as the strength of their balance sheets and the depth of their merchant-banking experience permit . |
| 5 | To put it another way , President Reagan 's plans are likely to attract the kind of remarks that another John — McEnroe not McElroy — normally reserves for bad line calls . |
| 6 | The United Kingdom 's reserves are likely to be empty in forty years even at the current rate of consumption . |
| 7 | Because your conclusion is so important , you ca n't risk the slightly different emphases and directions which someone else 's words are likely to carry . |
| 8 | A shame , then , that so few of the Discovery 's customers are likely ever to make use of these abilities . |
| 9 | Electricity Board engineers restored some power to the leisure complex this afternoon … but the effects of the weekend 's floods are likely to be felt for week 's to come . |
| 10 | The latter may start from national classifications of occupations such as the American Dictionary of Occupational Titles ( DOT ) and the British Classification of Occupations and Dictionary of Occupational Titles ( CODOT ) , but the counsellor 's suggestions are likely to converge very rapidly into a more comprehensible repertoire of possibilities using evidence about the particular client ( Singleton , 1975 ) . |
| 11 | At the least , Swegen 's victories are likely to have owed something not only to his doubtless considerable abilities as a commander , but also to an administration capable of utilising resources effectively and controlling the country in his absence . |
| 12 | But very soon pressure from the vassals — and also , it may be , the simple fact that a good vassal 's children were likely to be good vassals themselves — made it common , then normal , and finally an inherent part of the feudal contract that the grant was heritable . |
| 13 | At the beginning of a career , any band 's tours are likely to make a loss . |
| 14 | For example , the person who can not say ‘ no ’ to others ' requests is likely to be overwhelmed by external demands ; the person who fails to speak up for him/herself and express personal feelings and thoughts will not feel fulfilled and comfortable with his/her own identity ; the person who can communicate only in an aggressive manner may fail to develop healthy trusting relationships . |
| 15 | Their pleas for pilot projects in the key areas of self-governing hospitals and GPs ' budgets are likely to be replaced by demands at committee stage for safeguards to be written into the legislation . |