Example sentences of "[adv] likely to have been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The charter does not mention this , and the period may still have been imprecise ; but it is not likely to have been above two months at most , which limited its usefulness considerably . |
| 2 | In addition 10 seen at Litlington on 14 October 1974 seem most likely to have been on migration , apparently the only such record for Sussex . |
| 3 | In the magnetic resonance imaging studies subjects who showed the more severe white matter changes had worse recent phenylalanine control and were more likely to have been on a normal diet without protein substitute for longer ( A J Thompson , I Smith , D P Brenton , personal communication ) . |
| 4 | When the type of home was taken into account , those dying of respiratory disease were more likely to have been in nursing homes — 14 per cent compared with 6 per cent for those dying of other conditions — whereas those dying of stroke were more likely to have been in old people 's homes : 27 per cent against 12 per cent . |
| 5 | When the type of home was taken into account , those dying of respiratory disease were more likely to have been in nursing homes — 14 per cent compared with 6 per cent for those dying of other conditions — whereas those dying of stroke were more likely to have been in old people 's homes : 27 per cent against 12 per cent . |
| 6 | ‘ The poison is n't too likely to have been in a quail , ’ Rose said soothingly . |
| 7 | Plants like these are very likely to have been among the earliest forms to colonise the moist margins of the land , but so far no fossil relics of undoubted mosses have been discovered from this early period . |