Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adv] unlikely [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some ads will be about products which are most unlikely to be bought ; some , even , may concern products or product fields in which the reader is actively looking for something to buy . |
| 2 | The whole point of the undergirding cables was to provide some shear bracing and so unless the operation was done with a knowledge and accuracy which were rather unlikely in the circumstances , so as to get the cables roughly at forty-five degrees , the expedient probably had usually as little effect as it seems to have had upon Paul 's ship . |
| 3 | Genetic make-up , early childhood socialisation , class divisions and inequalities of opportunity are things which we either do not know how to change , or would involve a degree of social and economic transformation which is very unlikely to be embarked on in the name of reducing crime . |
| 4 | The danger with regard to capital gains tax is not so much that the protector may be treated as a trustee , which is very unlikely in a properly drawn protectorship clause in the deed , but that he may de facto intervene in the way the trust is carried out so that the Revenue may argue that the general administration of the trust is not ordinarily carried on outside the United Kingdom . |
| 5 | Criminal libel is an ancient offence which is now unlikely to be invoked against the media by prosecuting authorities : the Law Commission has recommended its abolition , and one Law Lord has further pointed out that its scope conflicts with the European Convention on Human Rights . |
| 6 | You are very unlikely to be suffering from it , as it is almost entirely confined to males . |
| 7 | But you are very unlikely to be able to show a link which is directly attributable to your activities and you will be encouraging the view that media relations is simply a cheap form of advertising . |
| 8 | So you are very unlikely to be able to tell your story ( and , once again , telling a story is what you are doing fundamentally ) without abandoning more than once the angel-on-the-shoulder viewpoint of whatever chief characters you have chosen . |
| 9 | She was certainly unlikely to be amused by ill-bred behaviour on the part of those who undoubtedly held themselves to be among Europe 's finest aristocratic stock . |
| 10 | Where policemen were the only witnesses to what had occurred , there was most unlikely to be a breach of the peace , since the policemen were unlikely to engage in the use of unlawful violence . |
| 11 | Such parties , as always , like to equate themselves with the sense of collective separateness , hostility to ‘ them ’ and the ‘ imagined community ’ which may be almost universally felt in their ‘ nation ’ , but they are very unlikely to be the only expression of such a national consensus . |
| 12 | ‘ And as she and Steve are together it 's not unlikely for him to pick up the phone if it rang . ’ |
| 13 | On location where what criteria might be used to guide location , I 've said it 's most unlikely to be found in a built-up area , but clearly close to good communications networks is important and must be within a reasonably short travel time of the national highway network . |
| 14 | It is thus unlikely to be packaged in membrane bound vesicles before release . |
| 15 | It is most unlikely for an odour per se to cause actual physical damage , but where it causes a diminution in the selling value of the property or injures the plaintiff 's business by , for example , causing potential customers to be lost , this may be regarded as sufficient invasion of the plaintiff 's interest to be tortious . |
| 16 | It is also unlikely to be popular with car-owning residents well aware of the increased likelihood of car vandalism or theft in garages not subject to residents ' casual surveillance . |
| 17 | In STV constituencies electing three , four or five members better proportionality than in single-member constituencies can be expected , but it is very unlikely to be accurate proportionality . |
| 18 | Hence , if the introduction of the Agnus Dei penny was decided at Enham , or intended to reflect events there , it would look more like a continental peace meeting than ever ; and in this context , it is very unlikely to be coincidence that the name Enham apparently means " the place where lambs are bred " . |
| 19 | It is extremely unlikely under the ‘ list-system ’ or under varieties of the ‘ single transferable voting ’ system other than the ‘ alternative voting ’ system . |
| 20 | On September 9 , 1969 , by which time Clinton knew his draft number was high and that he was therefore unlikely to be called up , he wrote to his friend Richard Stearns : ‘ Nothing could be more destructive of whatever fibre I have left than this mental torment . |