Example sentences of "[am/are] likely [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If thieves have taken to the roads you 're likely to end up with a hole in you like … ’ |
| 2 | Yes , well , if you go , if just you and I go we 're likely to end up with somebody who knows us . |
| 3 | The last of the wild Hawaiian crows , or " alala , are likely to die out within two decades , according to the US National Research Council . |
| 4 | The hearings are likely to go on for months . |
| 5 | Well , they 're in detailed discussions , and negotiations are likely to go on for some hours . |
| 6 | Only specialist engineers are likely to go down to the level of AND gates and NOR gates , and only physicists will go down further , to the level of how electrons behave in a semiconducting medium . |
| 7 | These powers are to take immediate possession of all the debtor 's property but only to sell anything of a perishable nature or goods which are likely to go down in value if not sold ( s 287(2) ) . |
| 8 | Unlike the national services , which are likely to go out to competitive tender , these local and community services are expected to be awarded on the basis of their planned services and financial viability . |
| 9 | If the underwater vegetation is thick , flatworms are likely to glide out in dozens and settle on the bait . |
| 10 | Similarly organisations that find themselves in difficulty ; where the profits are not coming through , where there is pressure from shareholders for a significant improvement in profit performance ; here again , the chairman and the Board are likely to reach out to executive search consultants to find them new talent . |
| 11 | Around 1,000 prospective buyers are likely to turn up for tomorrow 's sale . |
| 12 | none of us are likely to fall out about it . |
| 13 | However , what is worrying is that , once labelled , we are likely to live up to that label . |
| 14 | A special feature on the Trade Finance team ( they assess whether credit risk countries are likely to cough up for BP oil they have bought ) written by freelancer Mike Martin got a separate award from the judges . |
| 15 | avoid doing it because the revenue are checking one in twenty cases , and if you 've got a partner who 's likely to pay , not to pay tax , that 's fine , if they are likely to roll over into tax , then do n't use an R eighty five . |
| 16 | A little unsporting maybe but then none are likely to end up on the dinnerplate or as a fisherman 's trophy . |
| 17 | By this time stress waves are probably racing about in the material in all directions at the speed of sound ( that is faster than the crack ) , being reflected off both old and new surfaces , and we are likely to end up with not one crack but with a great many . |
| 18 | Otherwise you are likely to end up with an obese dog , and the resulting complications can lead to heart problems . |
| 19 | Now it 's perfectly now the cost er the benefits from sort of marketing right to buy is really very , very dubious erm the government has shown time and again that what it takes then gives with one hand , it takes away with another and the costs are obvious , we are fragmenting our housing stock , we are putting it , we are likely to end up with more and more with a higher proportion of poor properties and erm there 's also the risk that if we do really have to be promoting right to buy we 're going to have people who are probably not sure whether they can afford to buy their house or are n't sure whether they even want to buy their house . |
| 20 | Stop anywhere for a few minutes on a summer 's day and you are likely to end up as an unpaid extra in next year 's calendar or on a biscuit tin . |
| 21 | The story of what is going on in the airline industry will perhaps provide as good an example as any of the gap which is growing between what is proposed in the ‘ competition Directives ’ and how matters are likely to work out in practice as a result of the distortions caused by subsidy . |
| 22 | On present form , future generations are likely to look back on the 1992 election — with its emphasis on marginal tax rates — as at best rather quaint , or at worst a tragic irrelevance . |
| 23 | The difficulty with this result is that advertising is usually only one part of a marketing strategy , and that agreements on advertising are likely to spill over into other elements of that strategy including prices . |
| 24 | What you also need to do is an annual cashflow projection , which will show the periods when you are likely to have a lot of bills coming in and how long you are likely to have in between to put money aside for the tough months . |
| 25 | If you are shooting video in a zoo where animals are kept behind bars , you are likely to come up against situations which prove that auto-focus systems are not quite as clever as you are . |
| 26 | If you are planning to build your own conservatory , you are likely to come up against the new Pat N of the Building Regulations . |
| 27 | In Britain we are likely to come up against similar , if not identical , perverse incentives as the NHS reforms alter the way in which services are funded . |
| 28 | A second area of concern about the effects of new technology has been centred around the question of what changes are likely to come about in the nature of those jobs that are left . |
| 29 | How much do I value what I am likely to get out of it ? |