Example sentences of "[noun] are likely to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The third quarter 1991 bad debts are likely to be the worst ever , according to Europe 's largest trade credit insurance broker , The Credit Insurance Association Ltd . |
| 2 | Yet another way in which not having a bank account makes people more likely to fall into the non-chooser group , the automatic users of one or other type of credit , is that people without bank accounts are likely to be paid weekly , in cash . |
| 3 | Sales and investments are likely to be less affected than in a chapter 11 filing . |
| 4 | An aggregate approach may not be too unrealistic given that assessments of the returns on overseas bond and equity investments are likely to be dominated by exchange rate expectations . |
| 5 | Speak to your vet about castrating the dog since the problems in this case are likely to be resulting from an excess of sexual libido . |
| 6 | Jonathan Davies and Barry Williams have been ruled out but Paul Moriarty and Kevin Ellis are likely to be fit . |
| 7 | In the absence of scale economy benefits , horizontal mergers are likely to be socially undesirable . |
| 8 | The full deal on the EC 's future budget are likely to be unveiled today when the 12 EC heads of state rubber stamp the final package . |
| 9 | The conclusion we reach , which we share with Wood , is that ‘ the quest for general trends , such as progressive deskilling of the work force , or general conclusions about the impact of new technologies are likely to be both theoretically and practically in vain ’ and that ‘ to incorporate worker resistance , labour and product markets and extra-economic factors involves more than simply extending one 's analysis ; it amounts to a theoretical reconsideration ’ ( Wood 1982 , 18 , 22 ) . |
| 10 | It is just that the type of early-warning signals just discussed will indicate whether the expected improvement in competitive strength and the projected cash flows are likely to be achievable . |
| 11 | The first signs of a blocked drain are likely to be overflowing gullies or manhole covers or a blocked downstairs WC . |
| 12 | Local wildlife and agriculture are likely to be badly affected , environmentalists claim . |
| 13 | Accordingly we can identify two necessary conditions which must be fulfilled before macroeconomic policies are likely to be successful : |
| 14 | In Statement B this story line is applied to the police force to suggest that the young white working-class men who enter the force are to a large extent preselected , and irrespective of recruitment and training policies are likely to be authoritarian personality types who flourish in a para-military environment and ‘ have a hang-up about race ’ . |
| 15 | Some of the UK government 's key environmental policies are likely to be undermined by a lack of resources , according to an internal Environment Department report which was leaked to the press . |
| 16 | These oolites are likely to be similar to those present in Rustenburg-l , where a thin unit of cross-bedded oolitic grainstones about 2 m in thickness , is present at the base of the platform sequence ( Fig. 28 ) . |
| 17 | The fact that a spoken context of utterance is constructed from a written text emphasises the separation between the real and the fictional enunciations : the referents of the personal pronouns in the text are likely to be perceived as fictive personae , while author and reader are not directly present or involved in the constructed text world . |
| 18 | The random nature of turbulent motion gives a diffusive action ; two fluid particles that happen to be close together at some instant are likely to be much further apart at any later time . |
| 19 | The hospital is asking GPs only to send in only urgent cases … further operations are likely to be cancelled over the next few days |
| 20 | By contrast , perceptions that verge on being attitudes are likely to be more resistant to change and more dependent upon individuals ' partisan backgrounds — their pre-existing sense of party identification , and their use of partisan news sources such as right-wing ( or leftwing ) papers . |
| 21 | Where an owner continues to be centrally involved and lives in the house or on the estate , attitudes are likely to be positive and the house opened in a lively fashion . |
| 22 | Nonindividualistic conceptions are likely to be among the expensive tastes since their realization depends on the cooperation of others , and they will take some convincing to come round to the agent 's point of view . |
| 23 | Because there are fewer runs of keys than separate keys , the results of division are likely to be more variable than those of genuine randomization . |
| 24 | Automatic negotiating rights are not guaranteed , but employers are likely to be angry . |
| 25 | Again , unions in conjunction with employers are likely to be able to find answers to the access-to-cash problem . |
| 26 | But this is a very expensive way of preserving sound , only tolerable when hundreds of copies are likely to be sold to cover the costs . |
| 27 | When the cause of deafness is not solely in the outer and/or middle ear , high frequencies are likely to be affected . |
| 28 | Plausible cases are likely to be extremely rare in practice . |
| 29 | These difficult cases are likely to be crucially important in terms of their landscape impact — as in the scheme to improve 125 hectares of mountain land near the summit of Fan Frynych in the Brecon Beacons . |
| 30 | Damages in fatal accident cases are likely to be substantial and should not be underestimated . |