Example sentences of "[be] likely to be of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a bit like asking ‘ which is the more useful , a washing machine or freezer ? ’ because both qualifications are likely to be of lasting value . |
| 2 | However , there are some products which are likely to be of particular interest to older people and some areas where mechanisms are needed to ensure they get a fair deal . |
| 3 | The paragraphs which now follow single out some of the more important , more specialised , local collections , and particularly those which are likely to be of value to researchers working over a fairly wide geographical area , or concentrating on a single subject . |
| 4 | These are likely to be of great importance when prescribing the remedy for a patient . |
| 5 | This can be a vacuous form of words , conveniently forgotten as students settle down in their maths , their physics , their geography lessons to acquire ideas which are , we acknowledge , of potential general application , but which are likely to be of little use if the connections between theory and practice are not made explicitly . |
| 6 | So the final doses are likely to be of the order of 4 rems . |
| 7 | True enough , and , despite the dissimilarities among families , the impressions taken from each matrix are likely to be of similar depth and importance . |
| 8 | In any situation of conflict , whether serious or trivial , the complexities of our inner self are likely to be of equal , if not more significance , than the role of the other party . |
| 9 | In the reports of social workers , psychiatrists or teachers , such global terms can hardly be avoided ; for them the labels and importance attached by research workers to facets of parental behaviour are likely to be of considerable use . |
| 10 | But despite this , Foucault 's essay on The History of Sexuality does offer a most stimulating challenge to traditional historical accounts , partly because of its undermining of conventional approaches , partly because it is an aspect of a much wider intellectual effort , whose implications are likely to be of major importance . |
| 11 | Established villages are likely to be of type A , that is , closed and integrated ; transitional villages will probably be of types C or D , that is , closed or open but disintegrated , while the re-established village is likely to be of type B , which is open and integrated . |
| 12 | These developments in cost-accounting are likely to be of central importance in resource-allocation decisions for the foreseeable future . |
| 13 | Young people are not alone in having problems with friendships , but the psycho-social issues that confront adolescents make it more certain that such difficulties are likely to be of concern to them . |
| 14 | Participating companies are asked to provide information on products exported ; on the value of these exports to each market destination ; company employment figures ; the percentage of turnover dedicated to exports ; and their perception of future prospects , including indication of any new overseas markets which are likely to be of interest . |
| 15 | However , it is also clear that since inflammatory bowel disease is a process that involves several agonists , only drugs which affect most or all of the agonists are likely to be of proven benefit . |
| 16 | So generalisation is important as a way of pulling you out of just describing the details of your individual experience as a reader , enabling you to make statements which are likely to be of interest to others about patterns or structures in the way literary texts work . |
| 17 | Departments have agreed to notify the local planning authority of development proposals which are likely to be of special concern to the authority or to the public ; for example where there could be a very substantial effect on the character of a conservation area , or where there could be a significant planning impact , visually or otherwise , beyond the department 's own site . |
| 18 | But they are likely to be of greater strategic than employment significance , and there will be losses . |
| 19 | In addition , she undertook to research and deliver lectures on any medical aspects of history that were likely to be of interest to fellow members . |
| 20 | Initially , if they belonged to the Church of England , they were likely to be of the evangelical tendency so disturbing to comfortable Anglican parsons and laymen . |
| 21 | In this respect England 's relations with Brittany were likely to be of great importance , not only for the positive reason that a friendly duke of Brittany would allow the use of his duchy as a stepping-off place into the mainland , but for the negative one that a hostile duke might cause untold harm to English maritime interests , both military and commercial , by failing to stop the activities of Breton pirates and privateers whose ships gave much trouble at sea , as complaints in Parliament and in some of the political literature of the time , notably The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye , testify . |
| 22 | The number of stray cats is harder to identify — and unknown — but the figure is likely to be of similar proportion . |
| 23 | The staff of a school are its most important resource and their commitment to decisions made is likely to be of major significance in ensuring effective implementation . |
| 24 | 1.6.6 promptly to bring to the notice of any information received by which is likely to be of interest , use or benefit to in relation to the marketing and/or support of the Licensed Software ; |
| 25 | This is usually achieved easily enough by line breeding , though if the mutated genes are not dominant only a percentage of each brood is likely to be of the new form . |
| 26 | Moreover , the ensuing change is likely to be of a gradual nature and not a radical rearrangement of the political or social order . |
| 27 | ( c ) The material is likely to be of substantial value to the investigation and is likely to be admissible in evidence . |
| 28 | ( iii ) the material is likely to be of substantial value to the Investigation . |
| 29 | Non-financial reward for services is likely to be of a highly specific , immediate and implicated form ; financial recompense , however , may be translated at any time into a large range of goods and alternative services , according to the desire of the recipient . |
| 30 | This greater reliance on context means that the branch of linguistics termed ‘ pragmatics ’ ( e.g. Levinson 1983 ; Sperber and Wilson 1986 ) is likely to be of far greater significance than semantics of syntax in those material culture studies which investigate the object 's communicative abilities . |