Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] likely to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first stages are fitted with input offset adjustments just large enough to cancel the largest field likely to be encountered , namely the total inclined component in the middle latitudes . |
| 2 | Sandys accepted the General Staff view after his visit to Kenya , during which he came under pressure from the settlers to give confidence by building permanent barracks for the Strategic Reserve units likely to be stationed there . |
| 3 | Only where organisations appreciate the consequences for information resources , which they perceive to be valuable , is that investment likely to be made . |
| 4 | The show purports to be a potted history of the average actor 's life not one of the starspangled knights who represent the tip of the thespian iceberg , but the common-or-garden variety likely to be found filling out the bill in a panto or carrying a spear in the background of a TV costume drama . |
| 5 | Are regulated and unregulated firms likely to be equally efficient ? |
| 6 | As one would expect , the reaction is in some ways likely to be the opposite of what we have just described . |
| 7 | Another species likely to be found in the North Atlantic is O. hystrix Lyman , 1878 , found off Havana , Cuba . |
| 8 | When 's this treatment likely to be finished ? |
| 9 | The Latin used in medieval documents likely to be of interest to readers of this present volume was not the classical language of antiquity , nor were its standards universally high , and it varied from century to century as time advanced . |
| 10 | At the very least it would make it a more rationally and humanely organised system likely to be more productive ; at best it would provide the conditions for eventual emancipation should that decision finally be made . |
| 11 | It 's still a hot air story , and we give most hot air stories — some dignitary with no power to do anything to change the situation has ‘ called for ’ , ‘ demanded ’ , ‘ warned ’ or whatever — but the issue is so serious that it deserves notice : we have frequently highlighted the manner in which US — and European — anti-dumping measures that supposedly benefit a tiny minority are to the detriment of the vast majority , and there is now a groundswell of opinion at the US Department of Commerce that the International Trade Commission 's brief in considering charges of dumping should extend to a review of the impact of duties on consumers ; the current issue is the anti-dumping duties likely to be made permanent today on memory chip imports from South Korea , which are sought by Micron Technology Inc but opposed by both all memory chip users and by the US chip capital equipment manufacturers that sell to the South Koreans . |
| 12 | The sub-sections below list some of the typical operations likely to be necessary to the production of each of the products listed in 3.6 above . |
| 13 | Manchester The city archive has the two following collections likely to be of wide interest : the first deals with women 's suffrage in the north , and the second comprises the documents and papers of William Farmer , an editor of the Victoria County History : Lancashire . |
| 14 | The team will train at Darwin , in Australia 's Northern Territories before the tour starts , to acclimatize to the humid , tropical conditions likely to be encountered in 'Sri Lanka' . |
| 15 | The planning authority has to assess the amount of land required for mineral working , and this requires an assessment of the future demand likely to be made on production in its area . |
| 16 | If government advice is this cautious , and local authorities with their restricted budgets likely to be less adventurous still , then the likelihood of innovative work resulting is remote . |
| 17 | This study surveys and analyses the understanding of science found among members of social and organisational groups likely to be involved in the process of identifying strategic research areas in science such as scientists , managers , civil servants etc . |
| 18 | To what extent are these factors likely to be present in modern analytical laboratories ? |
| 19 | If appraisal leads to the creation of a new bureaucracy which consumes money which would otherwise be spent on resources for children , is such formalised procedure likely to be beneficial ? |
| 20 | In mid-January the Chinese government issued details of the governmental framework likely to be established in the post-1997 Hong Kong Special Administrative Region ( SAR ) . |
| 21 | Display panels at the stone-walled redoubt below Durlston Castle give drawings of the many seabirds likely to be seen wheeling or nesting on the cliff including kittiwakes , fulmars and guillemots . |
| 22 | Small , rather tame and confiding aquatic waders , much the smallest birds likely to be seen swimming , except for a few all-dark petrels . |
| 23 | According to an IBM spokesman , AIX on a mainframe was chosen because requirements are expected to grow , with other postal functions likely to be taken on . |
| 24 | There must be a clear place for every complex subject likely to be encountered in the literature . |
| 25 | Practically all routes likely to be used by visitors pass along or cross Princes Street . |
| 26 | Endorsement is the process by which all users likely to be affected by an SSR are informed of its existence and permitted to accept or reject it according to their usage of it . |
| 27 | Applying to the inhibitory case the analysis of conditioning presented above leads to the suggestion that one of the associative links likely to be formed will be between the CS and a representation of no event . |
| 28 | The alternative scheme likely to be used will involve the transfer of the existing shares in the target to the bidder ( or at least those not already owned by the bidder ) by a person nominated by the court to execute transfers on their behalf in return for the delivery to them by the bidder of the agreed consideration . |
| 29 | Although there is no generally agreed forecast of the number of Anglican churches likely to be declared ‘ redundant ’ , the Bridges Commission of 1960 suggested that 790 buildings could be involved . |
| 30 | In thin book we address questions which are frequently raised by those groups likely to be involved in establishing , promoting and benefiting from Compacts : employers , teachers , students , careers service , parents , education authorities , governors , trade unionists , community organisations . |