Example sentences of "likely they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arabella Buckley hissed out the words , but Sven Hjerson thought it very likely they had been carried by the sticky breeze as far as the couple in the prow . |
| 2 | Our children need to be aware that the more sexual partners a person has , the more likely they are to have sex with someone who is HIV+ , although the risks of infection are greatly reduced if they practise Safer Sex . |
| 3 | When it came to subordinate males , however , there was a strong relationship between how nice males had been to infants and how likely they were to be attacked by the female : nicer males fared better . |
| 4 | That will depend on their view of the liquidity of both debt and equity markets : the more liquid they think these are , the less likely they are to sit on cash or to refrain from borrowing , and the more likely they are to pay large dividends . |
| 5 | That will depend on their view of the liquidity of both debt and equity markets : the more liquid they think these are , the less likely they are to sit on cash or to refrain from borrowing , and the more likely they are to pay large dividends . |
| 6 | The closer the Gnostics stood to orthodoxy , the more likely they were to wish to infiltrate the catholic community ; this was especially the case among the Manichees , but they could be detected by their refusal to drink of the eucharistic cup ( since they regarded wine as an invention of the devil ) and to make the sign of the cross ( since to them the suffering of Jesus was no actual event but a symbol for the universal condition of the human race ) . |
| 7 | It is likely they will plump for a compromise between the two for the next election , likely to be in months rather than years . |
| 8 | This can be seen from the figures in Table 5 which also suggest that the longer the time they had lived in an old people 's home the less likely they were to go into hospital . |
| 9 | It seems likely they met in their respective offices or possibly at the Salisbury Club which was a new , but important , social and business focus in the town . |
| 10 | These fish in the 1lb to 2lb class can be a hundred or more strong in a shoal , and if you begin catching this size of barbel it is likely they will remain in the swim , feeding off and on , for as long as you have bait to keep them interested . |
| 11 | The muddier the bottom the more likely they are to suck and blow the bait to clean it . |
| 12 | The basic argument is that the more adolescents are supervised by their parents and , perhaps , their teachers , the less likely they are to become involved with or influenced by delinquent contemporaries and delinquent values . |
| 13 | ‘ The more they can see business reasons for what they do , the more likely they are to continue their support . |
| 14 | This is especially so if they have lost their muzzles , for it is likely they will have all the food they require down there with them . |
| 15 | Income seems more closely related to whether or not people have ever used any form of credit than any other characteristic : the higher someone 's income ( at least up to a certain level ) , the more likely they are to have used at least some sort of credit sometime . |
| 16 | Most likely they would proceed no further than they had with the identification of ‘ Subject A ’ , especially since there was no one ( apart from themselves ) to miss her and she had never been missed . |
| 17 | They can either accept the recommendation , admitting that they are in control of what they do and the situations they create , or more likely they will protest that to take such advice will worsen the situation . |
| 18 | It is most likely they are all linked . |
| 19 | The nearer the foundations , the more likely they are to unsettle or destabilise the whole structure . |
| 20 | So it 's hardly likely they 're going to write off their star when the ink is barely dry on his $50 million contract ! |
| 21 | The more often they mate , the more likely they are to be the one who fertilises the eggs , and the more certain they can be that the offspring they expend so much time and energy in rearing are theirs . |
| 22 | The authors speculate that this may be because , with a centralised collective bargaining system which is fairly remote from the workers , ‘ the less conscious they will be of the gains achieved , and hence the less likely they are to be credited to union activity ’ ( p. 109 ) . |
| 23 | When you choose your army remember that the more Mobs you have the more likely they are to fail an Animosity test . |
| 24 | The more parents understand the details of the curriculum content and methods of assessment , the more likely they are to act in partnership with teachers to foster pupil motivation and hard work . |
| 25 | The tax signalled that he was both tough on the deficit ( it will raise , he hopes , $12 billion over the next five years , and $12 billion a year thereafter ) and serious about the environment ( the more people have to pay for energy , the less likely they are to squander it . ) |
| 26 | They 've only been elected to nineteen ninety two , so they 're , they 're really , what there doing there forcing people to take some action now , because at Kathy says , she 's afraid of being left out , if there should be a , another Tory Government , so a lot of people are in the same position , they will be putting in eh , I think they just call it best of interest , not a proper application , but then if the whole lot , hundreds of us come along , which is quite likely they will , the Government will say well this proves that everybody wants to become you see , so it 's rather clever move , erm , as , as far as I 'm concerned , what 's happening with that she is eh here within the hospital , the consultant 's and the worker 's in the hospital . |
| 27 | It is likely they may be amalgamated or changed in the future , but at the time of writing they are : |
| 28 | Not even squatters camped in this place , so more likely they 'd been broken by locals scavenging for carpets or pipes . |
| 29 | You can also record the letters they suggest , and talk about them afterwards , how likely they were , whether they were pure guesswork or genuine predictions , which words they may have had in mind , etc . |
| 30 | The younger the persons in public relations the more likely they will have a university degree or other higher education qualification . |