Example sentences of "[pron] is [adv] likely [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outside the wall , except on the north side , where the river came to its foot , there appears to have been only a single ditch , some 6.5 m ( 21 ft ) wide and 2.5 m ( 8 ft ) deep , which had been truncated by the medieval ditch ; it is most likely to have been contemporary with the early rampart . |
| 2 | If the site is an obvious landscape feature , it is very likely to have been recorded already . |
| 3 | Lamb is preferable to beef and pork , as it is less likely to have been intensively reared , and game is preferable to all domestically produced meat , as it has lived under natural conditions . |
| 4 | He is therefore likely to have been born some years before 1248 . |
| 5 | What is more likely to happen is that the intensity of the pain will gradually diminish as the weeks go by until , one day , you wake up and realize that it is not there any more . |