Example sentences of "[was/were] likely [prep] [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There certainly were opportunities , therefore , for children and young people to contribute both directly and indirectly to the household economy even before they entered the labour market , and on balance the evidence suggests that girls were likely to be more substantial contributors than boys , especially in the provision and exchange of domestic services , although boys may have had more opportunities to earn money . |
| 2 | Drew Porter , head of the Ulster Bank 's Personal Investment Unit in Belfast , said although the two share issues were likely to be very close together , investors may be able to ‘ make a killing ’ on NIE and still be ready to snap up the BT3 opportunity . |
| 3 | Since these three principal officers were likely to be often absent from court on royal business , much of the daily supervision of the Household economy fell on the cofferer , the two clerks of the Greencloth , and the clerk of controlment . |
| 4 | A spokesperson from Essex County Council said the council was looking into planting trees on the verge but it considered they were likely to be less effective there . |
| 5 | Bet you thought it was likely to be pretty exciting stuff , eh ? |
| 6 | The staff admit that a sudden rise in entrances to the zoo was likely to be largely due to an interest by the public who wanted to visit it before it finally closed and they agree that problems remain for the future . |
| 7 | It would still be reasonable to suspect that someone prepared to borrow money at high rates of interest was likely to be particularly vulnerable , even if there is now little surviving residue of the old suspicion or disapproval of interest-bearing credit on ethical grounds . |
| 8 | The experience was likely to be most harmful between six months and three years of age . |
| 9 | Using an electromagnetic modelling method called method of moments , AEA Technology discovered that one particular antenna on a satellite was likely to be highly susceptible to interference from other antennas on the same satellite , and its design was adjusted during the initial design phase . |
| 10 | In my review last year I said that 1992 was likely to be as difficult a year as 1991 for our North America Homes businesses . |
| 11 | Still , it should be pointed out that the average Soviet citizen 's contact with the courts was likely to be as unpolitical as that of his or her Western counterpart , and he or she was no more likely to be dealt with unjustly in the run-of-the-mill case ( Lane , 1985 , pp. 192–7 ) . |
| 12 | The story behind the featured tale of Michelle Shaw 's tank was that she was sold a four footer in 4mm glass which stood on what appeared to be a not very sturdy stand , in an upstairs rooms where the floor was likely to be less stable than downstairs . |
| 13 | It was a habit which remained a stand-by of abolitionists in the campaigns for emancipation and against apprenticeship ; Wilberforce was convinced however that , contrary to the practice of 1790 , pressure near the end of a parliament was likely to be more effective as MPs ' minds were concentrated by the approach of an election . |
| 14 | Others were that ‘ need ’ as opposed to ‘ reasonable requirement ’ did not have to be shown , that the case for making an order against an officer of the company was stronger than it would be against a third party , that an order for oral examination ( as in Cloverbay itself ) was likely to be more oppressive than an order for the production of documents . |
| 15 | Most women had been brought up to do sewing and dressmaking : it was no accident , nor was it a question of " natural aptitude " that a teenage girl entering the composing-room was likely to be more dexterous at first than a boy , and to apply both the physical and mental habits acquired in sewing to the job in hand . |
| 16 | This committee was likely to be more responsive to lobbying and pressure from parents of children already in ‘ mainstream ’ schools and from the huge workforce in mainstream and specialist education . |
| 17 | It was also suggested that should the Chancellor need to make urgent calls to the International Monetary Fund , his telephone at home was likely to be more secure than calls from a hotel in Blackpool surrounded by journalists . |