Example sentences of "[be] likely to be [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 're likely to be tackling full-scale plumbing installation work rather than just mending the occasional dripping tap , it will pay you to collect some specialist hand tools . |
| 2 | Practical guidelines are likely to be made available to health managers , but there will be no helpline number . |
| 3 | Furthermore , the military 's data banks , which contain information on ocean temperatures and currents , weather patterns and changes in vegetation in many regions of the world , are likely to be made available to environmental researchers . |
| 4 | About half the 6,000 white collar workers are likely to be made redundant in response to the shrinking market for coal . |
| 5 | Following the completion of the audit [ specify ] , we will carry out a review of the company , giving particular attention to those areas which are likely to be given close scrutiny during any due diligence procedure . |
| 6 | Doctors say most people in Britain are likely to be drinking dirty tap water . |
| 7 | For that reason , the majority are likely to be studying technical or vocational subjects that equip them with more immediately useful skills . |
| 8 | By this time in the season your apples are likely to be showing advanced signs of scab ( Venturia inaequalis ) . |
| 9 | Yet another way in which not having a bank account makes people more likely to fall into the non-chooser group , the automatic users of one or other type of credit , is that people without bank accounts are likely to be paid weekly , in cash . |
| 10 | Such reasons might include a governing body disregarding LEA advice that dismissal would be likely to be found unfair before an industrial tribunal : or a governing body determining payments to departing members of staff which were in excess of the LEA 's own practice . |
| 11 | Michael Liley , the Association Director , has pointed out that important changes were in the offing , and it was important to know what was to happen as the change were likely to be found unpleasant in the trade . |
| 12 | These checks are only justified if the person is likely to be handling large sums of money or to be exposed to the possibility of bribery . |
| 13 | Finally , as the advanced further education pool is virtually certain to be reduced , in relative terms , in the next few years and consequently the survival of some institutions may be at stake , NAB 's most difficult job is likely to be to steer public sector higher education through the stormy seas ahead with as little long-term damage as possible . |
| 14 | The former is likely to be using mechanism-based models with people as ancillaries while the ergonomist will be using models of people with mechanisms as ancillaries . |
| 15 | The history of previous attempts to reduce the prison population by introducing alternative punishments suggest that NAPO is likely to be proved right . |
| 16 | Even if the analysis is correct , the prediction is likely to be proved wrong . |
| 17 | For the hemiplegic patient , it requires extra care , because the patient is likely to be sitting still for much of the day , which in itself may make him more prone to infections , and the risk is magnified if there is any damp or dirty material next to his skin . |
| 18 | Aggro is likely to be considered appropriate in situations where opposing fans attempt a territorial invasion of their rivals ' ‘ end ’ ; where one hooligan fan stares at , or adopts a threatening posture towards an opponent , or calls him a demasculatory name , such as ‘ cunt ’ , ‘ wanker ’ , or ‘ poofta ’ . |
| 19 | If not dismissive in this way it is likely to be considered unimportant and never thought about again . |
| 20 | These individuals die or are sterile , and before long the whole local population is likely to be driven extinct . |