Example sentences of "[noun] is very likely to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , a collision between a pedestrian and a car is very likely to be described by a speaker as a boy being run over by a car , rather than as a car knocking a boy down . |
| 2 | Absorption from such sites is very likely to be erratic , leading to poorly controlled diabetes and possibly unexplained hypoglycaemia . |
| 3 | The newspaper reporters , the commercial writers and the popularizers may have great social insight and great interviewing skills , but their work is very likely to be strongly value-laden and biased and they are not working for the development of sociological theory . |
| 4 | The academy is responsible for issuing funding for postgraduate work in humanities , and their proposal is very likely to be implemented by Whitehall . |
| 5 | Although this assumption is very likely to be wrong it is still a usable forecast in the sense that it may be no more wrong than forecasts of change that get it wrong . |
| 6 | A similar situation is very likely to be repeated in years to come . |
| 7 | Ask any élite marathoner what he/she most wants after a race and the answer is very likely to be a massage . |
| 8 | These will be discussed first because , for these questions , conceptual difficulty is very likely to be the problem for all the " lowest 40 per cent " ( and for pupils at higher levels of attainment ) . |
| 9 | The present rate for the Earth is such that a crater over 10 km diameter is very likely to be produced somewhere on dry land at some time over the next 200 000 years . |