Example sentences of "would be unlikely " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the big ones the money goes to the names as appearance money , and I 'd be unlikely to figure in the serious prize money . |
| 2 | If the issue today in some people 's eyes is the need for this community in Greater York to be one hundred percent self sufficient then perhaps we really ought to go pack up and er go home , er because there 's no way that er a settlement that one could envisage in Greater York or perhaps anywhere else can be a hundred percent self sufficiency , self sufficient , you 're not going to get a shopping mall , you 'd be unlikely to get a a major touring theatre , so you can not aim for a hundred percent self sufficiency , you aim for what is appropriate for the size of the community and particularly its relationship to existing settlements er in the general area . |
| 3 | No final decision has been made on whether there will be legislation , but it would be unlikely to be tabled before next autumn , according to Department of Employment sources . |
| 4 | Biggs is of the opinion that Mason would be unlikely to survive more than a couple of rounds against the world heavyweight champion and at this stage it would be unwise to even think of him as a genuine contender . |
| 5 | One option believed to be under consideration by GEC would be to form its own partnership with British Aerospace , but MoD sources say this would be unlikely to overcome its fundamental objections to GEC 's involvement . |
| 6 | While it would be unlikely for a firm contractual commitment to be made which binds a record company to produce a promotional video , it is a matter of fact that a promotional video will be produced to support an artist 's first single . |
| 7 | He would be unlikely to give the Archangel Gabriel a run for his money and he should not be allowed to run to the House of Lords . ’ |
| 8 | Those unable to obtain off-farm income would be unlikely to carry on farming , he points out . |
| 9 | But Mr Heath was savagely criticised by the press and the public , and friends of Mr Major believe that in similar circumstances he would be unlikely to hang on . |
| 10 | IF A volcanic eruption were suddenly to cover Retford , say , or Camborne , under 12 feet of ash and lava , archaeologists working 2,000 years hence would be unlikely to find a town nearly as civilised and comfortable as Pompeii . |
| 11 | Furthermore , a body lost in Portsmouth Harbour a year previously would have washed out to sea long ago and , in any case , would be unlikely to have turned up in Chichester Harbour . |
| 12 | Few of her readers would have read the books and in wartime would be unlikely to obtain them . |
| 13 | ‘ One must accept ’ , Morton said carefully , ‘ that it would be unlikely the body had been brought from south of the river , because of the danger of being caught on a bridge . |
| 14 | The Hashemite monarchy would be unlikely to survive this eventuality . |
| 15 | The international community realized by the autumn of 1948 that most refugees would be unlikely to return home . |
| 16 | This announcement met with considerable antipathy from Fine Art Investment and Display , and it rapidly became clear that the company would be unlikely to sell to the Barclay brothers . |
| 17 | Most of them would be unlikely to sponsor a wholesale reconstruction of the educational system and were content to work strenuously within the generous limits of the new Act of 1944 . |
| 18 | To be fair , Suunto recommend that it is worn just above the wrist joint and it would be unlikely to move from that position . |
| 19 | These all turned out to be negative and the examining doctor decided to take rectal samples when she returned for her results as he felt she would be unlikely to come back a third time . |
| 20 | Invariably this works out at less than the cost of the repairs , because a vendor would be unlikely to reduce his price to the extent of their full cost — he would argue that he had already taken some account of defects and age when fixing the price of his house in the first place , and if he had been expected to replace all the windows he would have asked a correspondingly higher price . |
| 21 | Quite apart from this , the legislation required that the gathering of evidence by other means would be unlikely to succeed , or would be considerably more difficult ; a warrant would apply to only one suspect , so that there were no general warrants ; the warrants would remain in force for three months and thereafter had to be renewed ; and the person concerned generally had to be notified as soon as possible after the surveillance ended that he or she had been the target of such surveillance . |
| 22 | His régime would now be regarded as a kind of benevolent paternalism , and most players today would be unlikely to tolerate some of his harsher reactions . |
| 23 | However , it is difficult to be completely sure of the absence of vascular disease on clinical grounds alone and , for this reason , some groups have studied platelet function in diabetic children and adolescents in whom vascular disease would be unlikely . |
| 24 | Secondly , individual health authorities would enter the ‘ internal market ’ with different historical endowments of facilities and would be unlikely to be able to compete equally for contracts . |
| 25 | Green would be unlikely to know that the topography was considerably manipulated , but the use of boulders and rocks to build a foreground and the use of a mountain tarn as a middleground became frequent features of his work . |
| 26 | Most of these fields are already well populated , excessively so in some cases , and our late entry would be unlikely to make a substantial impact . |
| 27 | The dolphins ' opinion of Miss Goddard was not recorded but it is believed that they would be unlikely to demur from her conclusion . |
| 28 | Those means would be extra-parliamentary ; they would be unlikely to be confined to constitutional and lawful action and it would not be difficult to mount persuasive moral arguments for such activities . |
| 29 | It argues merely that whilst Parliament could pass such laws , it would be unlikely or unpurposeful for it to do so . |
| 30 | If you take an instant dislike to a particular hypnotherapist , or if you feel that you are unlikely to be able to establish any rapport with him , then he is not the one for you and any treatment would be unlikely to succeed . |