Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [be] likely to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But demands for compensation for damage are likely to be met by Britain under the terms of diplomatic norms . |
| 2 | The reference to excuses for crime is likely to be interpreted in some circles as a challenge to the Archbishop of Canterbury , Dr George Carey , who was heavily criticised by Conservatives last year when he implied that urban deprivation was to blame for the Tyneside riots . |
| 3 | The vendors ' first response to a request for warranties is likely to be that they should not be required to give any because the management knows far more about the day-to-day running of the company than they do . |
| 4 | However , its most serious effect for Brazil is likely to be the role it plays in delaying a southerly weather front which many regions of north-eastern Brazil rely on for rain . |
| 5 | And it should be added that some degree of ethnocentrism is likely to be endemic because all discourses and individuals necessarily have to use language and categories . |
| 6 | Conversely , a community in which large-scale quantification reveals blurred and uncertain patterns of differentiation is likely to be relatively unstable and , in Le Page 's terms , diffuse . |
| 7 | In doing so , he probably realized how difficult the process of change was likely to be . |
| 8 | But this is a very expensive way of preserving sound , only tolerable when hundreds of copies are likely to be sold to cover the costs . |
| 9 | Because there are fewer runs of keys than separate keys , the results of division are likely to be more variable than those of genuine randomization . |
| 10 | But the end of pupillage is likely to be only the beginning of your real difficulty : ‘ no room in the Inns . ’ |
| 11 | By December 1990 , the World Health Organisation ( WHO ) had received reports of over 305,000 people with AIDS from 179 countries , but they estimate that the true number of cases is likely to be more than 800,000 , with between 8–10 million infected with HIV . |
| 12 | This raises the question of exactly what kinds of experience are likely to be most helpful to a child who is experiencing difficulties with language and communication . |
| 13 | Because deep meditation can be likened in many ways to the altered state of hypnosis , and because those who have a profound interest in such forms of meditation are likely to be on a deliberate spiritual voyage of discovery , they may be able to pass more easily through those barriers of protection normally erected by the subconscious mind . |
| 14 | Your method of narration is likely to be different in a short story . |
| 15 | What main categories of stock are likely to be held by a manufacturing business ? |
| 16 | Free movement of labour is likely to be hindered by cultural , linguistic , and social security differences ( see Turner 1989 ) . |
| 17 | Study the publications on your specialist media lists and get to know what sort of pictures are likely to be used . |
| 18 | Their reporting of speeches is likely to be inaccurate in many ways , sometimes embarrassingly so . |
| 19 | In any group activity a number of roles are likely to be performed — for example , the roles of leader , peacemaker , ‘ ideas man ’ , ‘ humourist ’ and ‘ devil 's advocate ’ to name but a few . |
| 20 | The micro-electronic automation of the manufacture of metal components is gathering pace , but different levels and methods of computerisation are likely to be adopted . |
| 21 | Any high-fat , high-sugar way of eating is likely to be providing fewer nutrients than a low-fat , low-sugar regime with similar overall calorie content . |
| 22 | Six months after the first birth , a wife 's evaluation of marriage is likely to be lower than that of her husband , and by eighteen months conflict may reach a peak . |
| 23 | There are no grounds for anticipating that public funds available to the Council for supporting the activities of governing bodies of sport are likely to be increased beyond existing levels . |
| 24 | The normal course of trials is likely to be different as the court will often direct that a witness statement stand as the evidence in chief , or at least part of the evidence in chief , of its maker and , in any event , a witness statement may put to the maker in cross-examination . |
| 25 | In practice , a variety of perspectives is likely to be employed in analysis of global politics , although the need for refinement of existing models and development of alternatives is evident . |
| 26 | The approximate charge for the majority of places in University Halls of Residence is likely to be around £63 per week . |
| 27 | The approximate charge for the majority of places in University Halls of Residence is likely to be around £64 per week . |
| 28 | Either way , however , politicians of both rebellious and conservative sorts say some kind of reform is likely to be enacted . |
| 29 | This means that the mechanism of failure is likely to be the same by whatever means the material is broken . |
| 30 | Sir John said the pace of recovery was likely to be slow and they remained cautious about the current year , with slow but steady recovery not being seen until 1994 . |