Example sentences of "[pers pn] [am/are] unlikely [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are flying to the east and crossing only one or two time zones or flying to the west and crossing three or less time zones , you are unlikely to suffer from the effects of jet-lag . |
| 2 | It 's a word you are unlikely to find in the dictionary but , if you think of it as the opposite to ‘ extrude ’ , meaning to thrust or push out , then the term becomes more understandable . |
| 3 | If we do not try to grasp the relations between popular music discourses and the material musical practices to which they refer , and at the same time the necessary distinctness of level between these , we are unlikely to break through the structures of power which , as Foucault makes clear , discursive authority erects . |
| 4 | President Bush himself , no less , effectively called on Gen Aoun 's loyalist troops to rise against him , but , though some senior officers oppose his high-risk strategies and resent his authoritarian style , they are unlikely to move in the recent climate of public adulation for the great new champion . |
| 5 | In theory , the media can be used to promote certain policies though , in practice , this is not often the case , partly because broadcasting , the obvious channel , needs to attract advertising to finance itself and , since educational programmes do not often have mass appeal , they are unlikely to draw in the necessary funding . |
| 6 | It seems reasonable to assume , therefore , that they are unlikely to come from the Author of Scripture . |