Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [be] unlikely [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The board of directors is unlikely to be in as good a position as the manager to judge on this . |
| 2 | There is no virtue in several injections of insulin if the patient is well controlled on a single injection each day , but this state of affairs is unlikely to be the case in a patient who has had diabetes for a number of years and has little residual β-cell function . |
| 3 | The true state of affairs is unlikely to be clear until more and better quality deep seismic data become available . |
| 4 | The future expansion of very large , mature businesses such as petrochemicals is unlikely to be spectacular . |
| 5 | Further attempts to relate the incidence of Crohn 's disease to known genetic variation between populations are unlikely to be productive since differences of incidence between ethnic groups are narrowing with time and migration . |
| 6 | The anticipated value used in Section 11.3 and based on penalties is unlikely to be very close to . |