Example sentences of "[being] unlikely " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was not only because I would rather have won than lost anything , but also because , winning being unlikely , I would rather have opted out altogether than lost . |
| 2 | Necessary as legislation was in terms of public safety , for years it was unattractive to Ministers since it required considerable expenditure whilst at the same time being unlikely to attract any votes . |
| 3 | Sid , being unlikely to be displayed to the company , had been excused Dickensian dress . |
| 4 | The CLAWS team incorporated information about the likelihood of a word belonging a grammatical category into their system in a very gross way — some of the available tags were labelled as being unlikely . |
| 5 | We therefore revised BP 's financial strategy to adapt to a lower growth rate and a more conservative series of margin assumptions , which for planning purposes we took as being unlikely to improve in the early nineties . |