Example sentences of "[noun pl] likely to [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever the future pattern of health care in London , it must make adequate provision for the demands likely to be made in the immediate future . |
| 2 | The sale of important Attic vases on 28 April is one of the last major twentieth-century collections in private hands of sixth- to fifth-century BC vases likely to be dispersed . |
| 3 | However it may be very effective in situations where the number of words likely to be written is severely restricted . |
| 4 | At the same time I was working on a small English-Burmese dictionary with about 3,500 of the most common words likely to be needed by government workers going back into Burma when liberation should come . |
| 5 | Entries likely to be considered for prizes will be innovative , extraordinary and daring , but THEY MUST BE SAFE . |
| 6 | The stimulating article Some library costs and options by Brown ( an economist ) concludes ‘ it seems to be worth acquiring and providing storage for , books likely to be wanted more often than , once in about 1.7 years over a long period ’ . |
| 7 | The most energetic waves likely to be observed on Earth are those due to stellar collapse in our Galaxy . |
| 8 | Maria made the decision to sacrifice a certain amount of advertising revenue and turn the radio station into a temporary community service , as other stations and television channels were doing , monitoring the situation and providing updates , broadcasting official government warnings and advice to those districts likely to be affected by after-shocks and urging their local listenership to donate blood against a possible depletion of existing supplies . |
| 9 | Sandys accepted the General Staff view after his visit to Kenya , during which he came under pressure from the settlers to give confidence by building permanent barracks for the Strategic Reserve units likely to be stationed there . |
| 10 | Slightly larger than Dunlin ( p. 127 ) , and the only small dark wader with yellow legs likely to be met with on rocky shores . |
| 11 | It is important for the patient to be aware of the limitations likely to be caused by his spasticity . |
| 12 | It 's still a hot air story , and we give most hot air stories — some dignitary with no power to do anything to change the situation has ‘ called for ’ , ‘ demanded ’ , ‘ warned ’ or whatever — but the issue is so serious that it deserves notice : we have frequently highlighted the manner in which US — and European — anti-dumping measures that supposedly benefit a tiny minority are to the detriment of the vast majority , and there is now a groundswell of opinion at the US Department of Commerce that the International Trade Commission 's brief in considering charges of dumping should extend to a review of the impact of duties on consumers ; the current issue is the anti-dumping duties likely to be made permanent today on memory chip imports from South Korea , which are sought by Micron Technology Inc but opposed by both all memory chip users and by the US chip capital equipment manufacturers that sell to the South Koreans . |
| 13 | According to an IBM spokesman , AIX on a mainframe was chosen because requirements are expected to grow , with other postal functions likely to be taken on . |
| 14 | Because of the variable nature of the factors contributing to manoeuvre-induced instrument errors , it is not possible to give positive guidance as to the magnitude — or even sense — of the errors likely to be encountered during a given manoeuvre . |
| 15 | In particular , he was warned of the errors likely to be associated with naive projections of past accounting profit calculations , whether based upon historic or upon current costs . |
| 16 | The longer a party has a majority in the Commons , the greater the number of local authorities likely to be captured by its opponents . |
| 17 | This correlation is not of course self-explanatory but three plausible connections can be identified : the differential formation of ‘ class self-image ’ in the presence or absence of property-owning ; the rational calculation of self-interest on the part of the occupants of the different forms of housing , with regard to the tax and rent policies likely to be pursued by the parties ; and the flow of political information within the cultural milieu of the residential area . |
| 18 | The systems approach to looking at organisations suggests mixed teams and we describe the roles of the various personnel likely to be involved : users and management as well as the business and technical analysts . |
| 19 | THE only Aylesbury Ducks likely to be found at The County Ground tomorrow will be an increasingly celebrated strain decked in green and white hoops . |
| 20 | THE only Aylesbury Ducks likely to be found at The County Ground tomorrow will be an increasingly celebrated strain decked in green and white hoops . |
| 21 | Display panels at the stone-walled redoubt below Durlston Castle give drawings of the many seabirds likely to be seen wheeling or nesting on the cliff including kittiwakes , fulmars and guillemots . |
| 22 | The aim is to provide a workplan which will be used in conjunction with a new call for proposals likely to be held in 1991 . |
| 23 | Small , rather tame and confiding aquatic waders , much the smallest birds likely to be seen swimming , except for a few all-dark petrels . |
| 24 | It is not that they are less likely to be murdered , raped , robbed , or assaulted — although the best scientific evidence based on victimization surveys shows this to be true ( Hindelang , Gottfredson , and Garofalo 1978 ) — but that in the criminal law , definitions of murder , rape , robbery , assault , theft , and other serious crimes are so constructed as to exclude many similar , and in important respects , identical acts , and these are just the acts likely to be committed more frequently by powerful individuals . |
| 25 | Naturally , the standards and norms likely to be developed by the police in employing a verification procedure are not going to be pure and objective scientific generalisations . |
| 26 | It was an essential element of the cause of action in such circumstances that the governmental plaintiff establish that the public interest would suffer detriment in the absence of a remedy ; ( 9 ) in failing to have proper regard to the legislative purpose of section 222(1) of the Local Government Act 1972 by which Parliament could not have intended to authorise a local authority to bring libel proceedings , a fortiori where it had suffered no actual financial loss ; ( 10 ) having regard to the scale of costs likely to be incurred it could never be in the interests of the inhabitants of the area for the local authority to mount an action for libel in such circumstances , and certainly was not in their interests in the present case where no injury was alleged to the superannuation fund . |
| 27 | Over the range of moisture contents likely to be reached in air the lateral dimensions of wood can thus change between five and ten per cent , that is up to an inch on a ten-inch-wide plank . |
| 28 | This view is supported by the District Councils who are united in their opposition for a policy incorporating more detailed guidance , particularly if it is sort to identify specific categories of exceptions likely to be considered to represent appropriate development in the countryside . |
| 29 | These issues related to mathematics in context , criterion-referenced tests , levels of difficulty in a graduated test scheme , and the resources likely to be needed to implement a scheme . |
| 30 | But as the years passed and British Industry became more sophisticated in recognizing and using the potential of public relations , Franklin changed her approach until she based all her campaigns on concepts likely to be admired even today by any leading consultant on either side of the Atlantic . |