Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] likely to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They landed at 0600 hours , unopposed by a German garrison satiated on Christmas fare ; the commando planners picking times for a strike force to land when the enemy were likely to be off-guard . |
| 2 | BR complained that the result was likely to be deteriorating services , especially since there was simultaneous pressure to keep down tariffs , while BR 's costs themselves were rising faster than the retail price index . |
| 3 | Opposition was likely to be stronger where children were transferred to another small school rather than to a larger school . |
| 4 | Well erm if I were then to ask you when what was your best estimate to when the programme was likely to be commenced . |
| 5 | Every professor was likely to be approached towards finals … |
| 6 | Mr Richard Collin , director of central services , said the council had set aside £2.3m. for bad debts this year , but the actual figure was likely to be £4.1m . |
| 7 | However , it was thought that recourse to judicial review was likely to be rare . |
| 8 | But Mexico had the support of the big western governments ; legal action was likely to be futile . |
| 9 | The plain truth is that in such a situation , when the defendant was actually walking away from the scene , no further breaches of the peace were likely to be occasioned by him . |
| 10 | Here , almost any topic under the sun was likely to be tossed about in the course of a morning 's talk . |
| 11 | In the case of minor posts the monarch 's influence was likely to be less firmly and more sporadically exercised . |
| 12 | The indicators in Belfast were all concerned with relationships of kin , work and friendship , contracted within a defined territorial area where their influence was likely to be considerable . |
| 13 | Withdrawal was likely to be effective — or , at any rate , more likely than in the past — because the totalitarian world had begun to break up and there were new possibilities for France to explore outside the West . |
| 14 | And doubts were expressed as to its value given the conceded fact that only a small dent was likely to be made in the pigeon population . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | For this , he was convicted of distributing insulting material whereby a breach of the peace was likely to be occasioned . |
| 18 | However , because I believed that much of this increased protein synthesis was likely to be associated with the production of new synapses , or the modification of old ones , it was important to look not at proteins in general but at synaptic membrane proteins in particular . |
| 19 | Unfortunately those clergy who had so eagerly and diligently defended and justified the war were likely to be engulfed and damaged by the pessimism and disillusion which its failure provoked : pacifism was commonly embraced by the lollards . |
| 20 | Yesterday , however , when asked by the procurator-fiscal , Andrew Normand , if such a junction were likely to be approved now , Mr Cooksey stated : ‘ Looking at it with today 's knowledge I would have been reluctant to accept it . |
| 21 | It became a pattern to work in Paris after a season or two in England but if a replacement was urgently needed , any dancer who caught her attention was likely to be shipped abroad . |
| 22 | But hopes of an early offer were dashed yesterday when Peter Bonfield , chairman and chief executive , said the flotation was likely to be later rather than sooner because ICL could not meet the Fujitsu criterion of sustaining a market price of 225p a share . |
| 23 | Should the person in charge of the chart see any item that was likely to fall behind , he pinned a flag at this particular point , and if the article was likely to be held up for want of raw material a blue flag was pinned up ; but if this delay was due to one or other of the works departments getting behind with the manufacture , a red flag with a numeral upon it was used , which indicated the shop or department . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | When I asked Mr. if engineering approval was likely to be given , he said it was not , the reason being that BWB themselves are proposing to upgrade the whole length of the Union Canal towpath . |
| 26 | This group was likely to be younger than the first . |
| 27 | Sir John Houghton said 100 leading scientists from 50 countries unanimously agreed that climate was likely to be affected by greenhouse gas emissions from industry , principally carbon dioxide ( CO ) released from fossil fuels . |
| 28 | He predicted that the course record was likely to be broken with a time inside one hour and 50 minutes . |
| 29 | I would n't put it into a company where the profit record was likely to be poor , because the last thing you want is for the share price to be lower than the option exercise price ’ . |
| 30 | The appointment of Shulamit Aloni , leader of the Meretz grouping , as Minister of Education was likely to be controversial in religious circles . |