Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] likely to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is just that the type of early-warning signals just discussed will indicate whether the expected improvement in competitive strength and the projected cash flows are likely to be achievable . |
| 2 | Accordingly we can identify two necessary conditions which must be fulfilled before macroeconomic policies are likely to be successful : |
| 3 | In Statement B this story line is applied to the police force to suggest that the young white working-class men who enter the force are to a large extent preselected , and irrespective of recruitment and training policies are likely to be authoritarian personality types who flourish in a para-military environment and ‘ have a hang-up about race ’ . |
| 4 | These oolites are likely to be similar to those present in Rustenburg-l , where a thin unit of cross-bedded oolitic grainstones about 2 m in thickness , is present at the base of the platform sequence ( Fig. 28 ) . |
| 5 | Where an owner continues to be centrally involved and lives in the house or on the estate , attitudes are likely to be positive and the house opened in a lively fashion . |
| 6 | Automatic negotiating rights are not guaranteed , but employers are likely to be angry . |
| 7 | Again , unions in conjunction with employers are likely to be able to find answers to the access-to-cash problem . |
| 8 | Damages in fatal accident cases are likely to be substantial and should not be underestimated . |
| 9 | Here the use of but suggests that the speaker thinks small houses are likely to be dirty . |
| 10 | The trouble with the new community councils is that they have largely fallen into the hands of the incoming middle-class whose views are likely to be coincident with the dominant ideology . |
| 11 | Employers ' and parents interpretations may diverge even more widely , particularly as the level of detail these groups are likely to be able or willing to handle will be broader than that used by teachers . |
| 12 | Although he stops short of locating particular disciplines within this typology , one can see that for example the natural sciences would tend to be hard and pure , engineering would be hard and applied , the arts are likely to be soft , and so on . |
| 13 | Modern readers are likely to be pragmatic ; if a poem like Alice Fell is still convincing as poetry , it matters little what theories it was designed to illustrate ; if it does not succeed , no amount of special pleading can save it . |
| 14 | Production organizations are likely to be high structures and R&D departments low structures . |
| 15 | If we are indeed a unique species then many of the behaviours which differentiate us from other animals are likely to be due to our genetic make-up rather than to cultural conditioning ; but the difficulty is to know just what these animal-human characteristics might be . |
| 16 | In these relationships , both parties are likely to be risk-averse , perhaps employees more so than the manager as they may have a greater proportion of human and other capital tied up in firm-specific assets . |
| 17 | The United Kingdom 's reserves are likely to be empty in forty years even at the current rate of consumption . |
| 18 | We suggest that , whatever the lineage of the TNF α producing cells , the effects of such high local concentrations are likely to be adverse . |
| 19 | Efficiency improvements in cars are likely to be responsible for significant conservation of fuel in the next 10 years . |
| 20 | Their pregnancies are likely to be troublesome and repetitive . |
| 21 | Now the only survivors are likely to be serious candidates . |
| 22 | Readers — not only teachers and examiners , but readers generally — develop such sophisticated responses to nuances of register that faked styles are likely to be noticeable . |
| 23 | Dismissals are likely to be fair provided that the employer can show a good business reason for the move and that adequate consultation took place . |
| 24 | In relation to white British culture in particular , various factors combine to create a sense of unreliability in in-law support : the ambiguity about whether the in-laws are ‘ really ’ part of your kin group ; the possibility that the linking third party will be removed at some stage ; the expectation that in-law relationships are likely to be tricky at an interpersonal level . |
| 25 | Wider networks in schools are likely to be possible in the future . |
| 26 | Their reporting of speeches is likely to be inaccurate in many ways , sometimes embarrassingly so . |
| 27 | Examples given in " Working Together " which may justify exclusion include cases where parents are likely to be disruptive or violent to the child or professional participants ( para 6.15 ) . |
| 28 | However , we are given that errors are likely to be proportional to t . |
| 29 | Planting can be in autumn or spring , the latter if winters are likely to be severe . |
| 30 | Women in the trade unions are advising that unless 15 years of trade-union equality policies are negotiated into practice , any market-led advantages are likely to be short-term and easily reversible . |