Example sentences of "[be] likely [prep] [be] [adj] in " in BNC.
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| 31 | Such anachronisms are likely to be common in those regions from which the large forest animals have been lately removed and may , in any case , be a common feature in evolution . |
| 32 | It will be some time before Stewart can begin on the interior decor , but the furnishings are likely to be medieval in flavour , if contemporary in colour , with heavy tapestries draped from the walls and fittings boxed into the panelling . |
| 33 | Mr Clinton is likely to be magnanimous in his attitude to Mr Major . |
| 34 | But since the examination is testing what skills you have developed over time , the passage is likely to be similar in some way to passages which you have seen . |
| 35 | Their reporting of speeches is likely to be inaccurate in many ways , sometimes embarrassingly so . |
| 36 | If the goals of public health medicine are health promotion and the prevention of ill health , warn Whitty and Jones , then the specialty is in danger of veering off course in pursuit of the purchasing function , which ‘ is likely to be ineffective in improving the population 's health and may even be in direct conflict with this role . ’ |
| 37 | This is likely to be unacceptable in certain underground storage systems where personnel are not present unless the system is ‘ locked off ’ . |
| 38 | It follows that the design requirements for the system should lean towards ‘ over-kill ’ rather ‘ under-kill ’ since any increase in cost of the system is likely to be small in comparison with the benefit to be obtained by rapid detection and control of the fire . |
| 39 | The appearance of child witnesses is likely to be rare in proceedings under Parts IV and V of the Act . |
| 40 | ( c ) The material is likely to be of substantial value to the investigation and is likely to be admissible in evidence . |
| 41 | We consider the real challenges to society of having more octogenarians , nonagenarians , and centenarians in its ranks , and ask what is likely to be involved in meeting them . |
| 42 | Previously when bottlenecks arose in the benefit delivery system regional or local decisions had to be made that might affect implementation , now there is a central ‘ directorate ’ which is likely to be involved in the examination of policy feasibility and which plays an important part in determining how policy is implemented . |
| 43 | Any attempt to define a futures contract is likely to be unsatisfactory in some respect . |
| 44 | It is also a movie which is likely to be controversial in Paris . |
| 45 | This case is likely to be messy in more ways than one . ’ |
| 46 | As West has 6 Hearts , he is likely to be short in all the other suits , and with East returning the King of Clubs , there is a suggestion that he has a fairly long suit . |
| 47 | Your method of narration is likely to be different in a short story . |
| 48 | Raine admits the knowledge base is likely to be different in London where social services and housing are coterminous or even joint services . |
| 49 | It is likely to be intense in west coast deserts , such as the Atacama ( Chile/Peru ) and Namib ( Namibia ) , where frequent fogs supply both salt and moisture . |
| 50 | Obviously it is likely to be quiet in an empty hall or in a field ; it is likely to be noisy when a crowd of people are talking together all at the same time . |
| 51 | This is because variable scribal usage is likely to be functional in some way , just as spoken variation is functional ( as suggested in chapter 2 ) , and the most immediately obvious function of an alphabetic writing system is to relate writing to speech-forms , however complicated this relationship may be . |
| 52 | The disadvantages of market-orientation may be that it requires special leadership ( a ‘ bureaucratic ’ management would fail to achieve the required inter-relationships between the organisation and its customers ) and is likely to be costly in terms of staffing and other overheads . |
| 53 | It is likely to be frightened in the dark , and there is always the possibility of exhaust fumes leaking into this compartment , sometimes with deadly effects . |
| 54 | No case is likely to be identical in all respects with another . |
| 55 | For example , a sting from Buthus occitanus is likely to be fatal in North Africa , but in France the species , for reasons unexplained , is completely harmless . |
| 56 | The greater the openness of the boundary , the greater the potential capacity to negotiate across it ; the greater the number of open boundaries , the greater the potential power available to the social actors to promote a dialectical relation with the outside world , to actively influence the processes , policies and events that touch their lives Conversely , the fewer open boundaries there are perceived to be and the more closed , the more powerlessness and passivity is likely to be manifest in relation to the outside world . |
| 57 | The assumption of a variable capital-labour ratio implied by marginal productivity theory is more acceptable in long-run analysis such as formal models of economic growth , but it is likely to be inapplicable in short-run analysis . |
| 58 | The appointment of Shulamit Aloni , leader of the Meretz grouping , as Minister of Education was likely to be controversial in religious circles . |
| 59 | We were working towards her rehabilitation ; at the time she was co-operative and relaxed , and there were no indications she was likely to be involved in that sort of incident . ’ |
| 60 | I nodded and did n't tell him that , apart from my school days , my working French had been learned in stables , not kitchens , and was likely to be rusty in any case . |