Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] unlikely [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The recommendation , and its ultimate partial acceptance , have been criticised on the grounds that lack of legal advice at an early stage may simply lead to disputes later on , to be resolved with the support of legal aid , and that the cost savings were unlikely to be substantial . |
| 2 | However , while the growth of the international financial system would seem to imply the need for increasingly centralised decision-making , individual countries were unlikely to be willing to relinquish the freedom to conduct their own economic affairs for the sake of the greater international good . |
| 3 | Likewise , leasing companies were unlikely to be able to retain more than one third of the aircraft they ordered on their own balance sheets . |
| 4 | But airlines were unlikely to be able to finance more than half the aircraft they ordered through their balance sheets on an outright ownership basis . |
| 5 | As Mr Aitken almost points out , the perpetrators were unlikely to be genuine rugby supporters , but this is unfortunately a result of the national team 's success and the unhealthy Anglophobia nurtured by much of the Scottish press . |