Example sentences of "been unlikely " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is understood that , because the victims of the Awiel plane crash were badly mutilated , doctors who had packed the bodies before shipment to France had taken extra precautions , and an explosion from decomposition was therefore said to have been unlikely . |
| 2 | Her sensual , teasing routine would have been unlikely to get a ‘ 15 ’ certificate at a British cinema . |
| 3 | Further research revealed that in 1414/15 an Andrew Forshey had been chosen as one of two men to represent the borough in parliament , and it seemed sensible to hazard that a man of this standing would have held property in the area , for he would have been unlikely to have been elected by his fellow bailiffs , with the assent of the whole community , if he had not been of substantial material worth . |
| 4 | It had taken a week to obtain , and had Hapsburg officialdom realized that it was for him rather than Aranyos it would have been unlikely to arrive before the end of the war . |
| 5 | It would have been unlikely were it not for the introduction of the microcomputer , and in the UK the installation of microcomputers in large numbers of secondary schools has stimulated perhaps more of this work than anywhere else . |
| 6 | Moreover , they would have been unlikely to make any connection between what was happening in their adult relationships and what had happened during childhood . |
| 7 | As a result , reforms like school boards and compulsory testing for primary school pupils — which would have been unlikely to survive unscathed in the more consensual days of previous Tory administrations — have been implemented and then decisively rejected by the public . |
| 8 | Later research shows this story to have been unlikely : the Court was not at Wilton at the time and the Earl of Pembroke was not on speaking terms with Laud . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Since it would have been unlikely that many property offenders would have been able to pay the fines that he advocated , they would mostly have been subjected to the forced labour that he proposed as the alternative . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The vitamin E level would have had to fall much further to produce a deficiency and this would have been unlikely to happen in Alan or anyone else unless they are eating a very poor diet indeed . |
| 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 | He said : ‘ You 'd already said his calls were being made from callboxes , a tap would have been unlikely to trace him unless he repeatedly used the same box and he 's too bright for that . |
| 15 | If this book had been written twenty years ago it would have been unlikely to contain any discussion of bias in the language of academic work . |
| 16 | The continuance of large-scale English resistance may have been unlikely , but there were sources of danger to be neutralised . |
| 17 | With young players of the calibre of Phil O'Donnell , Motherwell have always been unlikely candidates for the drop . |