Example sentences of "[is] likely to [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many respects any issue that a department regards as requiring a ministerial decision is likely to be describable as a ‘ policy issue ’ . |
| 2 | If the housing visit is carried out too early , say six months before the transfer date , landlords are unlikely to be able to say with any certainty whether property is likely to be available for rent . |
| 3 | Mr Clinton is likely to be magnanimous in his attitude to Mr Major . |
| 4 | Although it is possible to achieve some degree of change without top-level commitment , that change is likely to be ephemeral at best . |
| 5 | Wilko is likely to be impressed with Jobson as he has always played reasonably well vs Leeds — even in his Barnsley days . |
| 6 | The organisational culture of the civil service may differ from organisational cultures in the private sector but is likely to be similar to other office based white collar organisations in the public sector . |
| 7 | But since the examination is testing what skills you have developed over time , the passage is likely to be similar in some way to passages which you have seen . |
| 8 | 2 An additional may be added to the above areas to allow for circulation , ducts , services cupboards and internal wall thicknesses. 3 Since the accommodation will normally be free standing and at ground level , no further space is likely to be necessary for access and escape , ie communications . |
| 9 | Raima UK is likely to be joint-owned by the two companies , and is said by Systemstar 's David Turley to be ‘ the inevitable consequence of our selling the product for the last five years ’ . |
| 10 | But because only a small part of the mutation load is likely to be due to alleles with major effects , this gives little error . |
| 11 | While this evidence does not necessarily imply that children will always cope with empirical and intentional explanations in the classroom , it does imply that failure to do so is likely to be due to factors other than children lacking an understanding of causality , of intentionality , or of the causal connectives . |
| 12 | At the very least , the precaution of staining thin sections with Alizarin Red S and potassium ferricyanide ( Chapter 4 ) is required as a rapid and sensitive method of determining whether variation in CL intensity is likely to be due to fluctuations in Mn activator or to the presence of Fe as a quencher . |
| 13 | I suspect that is merely because I have always been able to anticipate when a fox is likely to be present as the result of scent , footprints and tell-tale evidence around the burrow mouth . |
| 14 | Only an H , O or A horizon is likely to be present above rock . |
| 15 | Their reporting of speeches is likely to be inaccurate in many ways , sometimes embarrassingly so . |
| 16 | There is a great deal of suspicion that these may simply b.e the products of biological contamination after the meteorites have landed ; but , if this is not the case , it would seem that life is likely to be rife throughout the Universe . |
| 17 | If the goals of public health medicine are health promotion and the prevention of ill health , warn Whitty and Jones , then the specialty is in danger of veering off course in pursuit of the purchasing function , which ‘ is likely to be ineffective in improving the population 's health and may even be in direct conflict with this role . ’ |
| 18 | Despite an improvement in overseas business activity in the financial services sector in the UK it is likely to be flat over the next quarter , according to the latest CBI/Coopers Deloitte quarterly survey of financial services . |
| 19 | This will influence the teacher 's or therapist 's decision regarding whether or not the test is likely to be useful for a particular child and for a particular purpose . |
| 20 | This is likely to be unacceptable in certain underground storage systems where personnel are not present unless the system is ‘ locked off ’ . |
| 21 | The indemnity is likely to be subject to legal action between the parties . |
| 22 | The case , because of its serious nature , is to go before the Crown Court and is likely to be subject to considerable delay due to the inefficiencies of the court listing procedures . |
| 23 | Atkinson Morley 's Hospital , however , is likely to be subject to further review in 3 years . |
| 24 | The diversity of factors and problems suggests that no single preventive measure is likely to be relevant to all patients , and that effective prevention will have to include different procedures at the various stages in the chain of events leading up to the suicide attempt . |
| 25 | Certainly if the school can come to terms with the planning of time , it is likely to be well on the way to implementing the programme . |
| 26 | Unigate 's midway profits are down from £43m to £42m and the full-year figure is likely to be static at £92m , further reflecting the pressures on the dairy industry . |
| 27 | It follows that the design requirements for the system should lean towards ‘ over-kill ’ rather ‘ under-kill ’ since any increase in cost of the system is likely to be small in comparison with the benefit to be obtained by rapid detection and control of the fire . |
| 28 | theories are interdisciplinary , and the specific quality of a painting or a sculpture may not be spotlighted by the theoretician , whose writing is likely to be long on interpretation but short on description . |
| 29 | A rise in average temperature of around 0.5 degrees centigrade — as predicted in current climate models — could result in the hay fever season lasting from March until September by the year 2050 , when southern Britain 's climate is likely to be akin to that prevailing presently in south-west France . |
| 30 | To what extent can it be the case that a decision-making process that is dominated by white , male , middle-aged and middle class civil servants is likely to be appropriate for all areas of social and economic policy ? |