Example sentences of "[coord] it [adv] [verb] likely that " in BNC.

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1 And it also seems likely that Pius XII wanted the cardinals to act as papal legates , representatives of the pope in their different territories , ensuring through the bishops under their charge that true doctrine was taught to the laity .
2 The Bishop said the translator had attended very carefully to all the criticisms and it now seemed likely that we would have to wait until at least the end of the summer before the English edition appears .
3 ESA has already spent millions of dollars on Columbus , and it now seems likely that the redesign of Freedom will require a corresponding change in its space laboratory .
4 No doubt both tendencies arose in part because the voters themselves became more strongly partisan at that time ; but it also seems likely that television became more strictly impartial ( thereby offending both Labour and Conservative partisans more ) while the press became more stridently partisan ( Chapter 6 ) .
5 Less than a week ago , he said that this congress would strip the party of its ideology and change its name , but it now looks likely that he will have to settle for the second half of the forecast .
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