Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] likely [to-vb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I and my friends put down to evil witchcraft , my enemies are likely to attribute to incompetence or bad management . |
| 2 | Almost 80 per cent of Tory voters say they are unlikely to change parties if the NHS plans go ahead , but 70 per cent believe the proposals are likely to lead to privatisation of the NHS , with 62 per cent seeing the changes leading to worse standards of care and treatment . |
| 3 | The second proposition might state that only those who have absorbed the culture of such groups are likely to rise to positions of leadership . |
| 4 | The intrusion of the bureaucratic considerations is likely to lead to solutions which differ in many cases from those an individual should have adopted if left to himself . |
| 5 | It is particularly noteworthy that outpatient referrals to the surgical specialties increased as outpatient referrals to these specialties are likely to lead to inpatient admissions for elective surgical procedures which could incur a substantial charge on the practice budget . |
| 6 | For example , differences in consumption patterns coupled with differences in excises are likely to lead to changes in ranking , as is the differential treatment under the income tax of different sources . |
| 7 | In short , the lowered or lost earnings of many women care-givers are likely to lead to poverty and to increased financial dependency — on a spouse , on an earning sibling , or on the person being cared for . |
| 8 | If the warren and burrow systems are first cleared in the autumn , subsequent work in the area on other systems is likely to lead to rabbits evicted from one set of burrows going to ground elsewhere . |