Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [be] unlikely to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | People know the evidence of their pockets and are unlikely to be easily persauded that Mrs Thatcher 's Britain has been , or has yet become , the economic disaster area which Mr Kinnock depicted . |
| 2 | In my view our fellow Members , who lived with us cheek by jowl , were fully aware of my strengths and weaknesses and were unlikely to be impressed by pictures of me on their TV screens dressed in a striped apron and pretending to wash up in the kitchen , as had happened during the Tory leadership election . |
| 3 | She has communication difficulties and is unlikely to be able to deal with the matter herself . |
| 4 | A survey of the mental image of the sausage among housewives ( this example is not made up ) may use psychological techniques but is unlikely to be tied up with much basic psychological theory . |
| 5 | It is a record that still stands , is even in he Guinness Book of Records and is unlikely to be broken . |
| 6 | A panel of former Booker Prize judges questioned on a television programme in 1983 were agreed that the prize was for ‘ serious ’ novels and was unlikely to be awarded to a thriller , however skilful or original it might be . |