Example sentences of "[conj] it is likely that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of using a fixed percentage , Cubbin and Leech argue that a shareholder or group of shareholders can be regarded as having control where it is likely that they would win a contested vote , but that this can be determined only by examining the degree of dispersal of shareholdings within the individual company concerned . |
| 2 | It will be argued that if a policeman is confronted by a situation in which he fears that violence will be directed towards him if he intervenes , or it is likely that there will be such violence , the offence is committed . |
| 3 | However , the problems that we have considered mean that it is likely that we may miss the target and actually arrive at an unintended situation . |
| 4 | Indeed , it is sufficient that it is likely that they will fear the use of violence . |
| 5 | This is an altogether more simple reading of the section , and would apply where the policeman comes across a person who is using abusive language , and comes to the conclusion that it is likely that somebody in the audience will intervene to put a stop to it , using unlawful violence ( citizens may have the power to prevent a breach of the peace , but not to preserve the public quiet ) . |
| 6 | She was born before the turn of the century , so it is likely that her parents had been born into slavery . |
| 7 | The damage to your dog 's pancreas is permanent , so it is likely that you will have to continue with the capsules for life , but with the right sort of diet , you may well be able to reduce the number he needs . |
| 8 | Saturn your ruler is in exceptionally mood now so it is likely that you will have to put up with rather spartan conditions but you know how much is at stake for the future so you are happy to do without |
| 9 | Some towns , however , were able to prosper — Colchester , Salisbury and Newcastle among the larger ones , Exeter , Plymouth , Reading and Ipswich among the smaller ones — and it is likely that their prosperity depended on local factors , more particularly increasing activity in cloth manufacturing and exports , which affected the towns of the West Country and in Suffolk . |
| 10 | The priestess in question wears the knot at the back of her neck , and it is likely that she is one of the celebrants in a rite of sacred communion : other fragments of this fresco show alternate standing and sitting celebrants , mostly women , some offering , some ( the seated ones ) accepting the communion chalice . |
| 11 | He was fully aware of this limitation and it is likely that he got assistance from Lishman and Richardson with this aspect of his work . |
| 12 | He was licensed to hear confessions in the Lincoln diocese on 11 October 1300 , and it is likely that he is the Thomas Sutton who preached in Oxford on 23 November 1292 , and 1 March and 24 May 1293 . |
| 13 | Among the hero 's many adventures the twelve labours imposed by Eurystheus are only listed later ; but the regular list corresponds to the choice here and it is likely that it was in fact these twelve carvings at the heart of Greece 's greatest sanctuary that determined the canon . |
| 14 | And it is likely that there would have been thousands more if more people had known exactly how to raise a complaint with him . |
| 15 | It is unlikely that Weaver 's views in 1982 were significantly different from those he held when he was involved in creating that binary policy in the mid-1960s , and it is likely that his arguments reflect one of the elements in the decisions made . |
| 16 | In practice this will place a considerable burden on the solicitor and it is likely that his first step in such circumstances will be to apply to the court for the appointment of a guardian . |
| 17 | Her will makes no mention of Minton , but it is likely that her death released the trust which her late husband had set up on behalf of the Minton children and of which John now remained the sole heir . |
| 18 | Little is known of his career before the Restoration , but it is likely that his appointment on 29 June 1660 as paymaster of the Works indicates services rendered to the court in exile , rather than architectural activity . |
| 19 | He described his intention in only the vaguest of terms , saying that ‘ it was our purpose to ride forth against the enemies in the parts of France ’ , but it is likely that he and Lancaster hoped to join forces . |
| 20 | His business career remains equally obscure , but it is likely that he began working on the rougher side of the tavern trade . |
| 21 | Whether or not Dom Pérignon added sugar is of little importance here , but it is likely that someone somewhere had engaged in the practice and , in all probability , the sugaring of wine may have been quite commonplace . |
| 22 | It clearly can not be an arbitrary aggregation of versions of modules since it is likely that they would not form a consistent set . |
| 23 | Legend links him romantically with Anne Bonny , though it is likely that his men also claimed their share of her — and Mary Read 's — decidedly uncouth favours . |
| 24 | This account too contains some blunders , for it is likely that it was Æthelstan who was killed in battle , at Sherston , and that Edmund brought the relief , but when Thietmar wrote Britannis he was not thinking of Englishmen , whom he always describes as Angli . |