Example sentences of "[det] are likely to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every weekend now , tens of thousands , perhaps hundreds of thousands of people are taking tablets containing unknown substances , and God alone knows what the real long-term consequences of that are likely to be . |
| 2 | Furthermore , peripherals used by each are likely to be drawn together into a single , compatible product line and Fujitsu is expected to take over more responsibility for the development of ICL and Amdahl 's mainframe CPU architectures . |
| 3 | While this was not a major consideration when the trial was originally planned the considerable advances in recent years have meant that the significant proportion of the patients recruited into studies such as this are likely to be potential transplant recipients . |
| 4 | Few are likely to be enthusiastic about taking up the burdens of having to compete . |
| 5 | Even so , potential examiners are known qualities : some are likely to be severe , some lenient , and the experienced and canny supervisor or head of department is likely to make nominations accordingly . |
| 6 | Some are likely to be baby floribundas , others are perfect scaled-down hybrid teas . |
| 7 | The printed form N 117 is usually used , and some are likely to be on the judges " table " . |
| 8 | Given Celtic 's goal-less draw against a team soundly beaten twice in four days on their own pitch immediately before the weekend , and the hostile reaction of the lowly crowd , even fewer are likely to be in attendance at the next home game . |
| 9 | These are likely to be hefty in the next few years as the European Community ( EC ) tightens the rules on drinking water and imposes new ones on sewage disposal . |
| 10 | These are likely to be of great importance when prescribing the remedy for a patient . |
| 11 | Petrie has shown that in moorhens the male 's fat reserves are important , and these are likely to be higher in small males . |
| 12 | If these are likely to be exacerbating the problem they must be removed , and the parents must be clear as to why . |
| 13 | As general wisdom , these are likely to be higher with free-standing contracts than for a collective AVC scheme offered by an employer . |
| 14 | These are likely to be professions like law , engineering , medicine . |
| 15 | These are likely to be more important in rural than in urban areas ( Stanyer 1975 ) but Green himself once obtained 773 votes as an independent candidate supported by a residents ’ association in a ward election in Sheffield ( Hampton 1970:291 ) . |
| 16 | It can do this by using specifically attention-getting devices — enormous headlines in the press , rolls of drums , whistles or other unusual sounds on TV or radio , flashing lights on TV or cinema — but these are likely to be artificially imposed in the context of an ad . |
| 17 | These are likely to be self-serving , but , in Berle and Means ' view , the possibility is also opened up that rather than furthering their own interests , or those of the shareholders as currently required by law , management might act in the interests of society as a whole , evolving into a ‘ purely neutral technocracy balancing a variety of claims by various groups in the community and assigning to each a portion of the income stream on the basis of public policy rather than private cupidity ’ . |
| 18 | These are likely to be more effective for marketing and operational planning purposes . |
| 19 | Governments in developing countries in general have faced particularly severe revenue constraints in the 1970s , and for many these are likely to be even more acute during this decade . |
| 20 | Those that can get jobs will leave , and these are likely to be the staff that the organisation wants to keep most . |
| 21 | Nevertheless these are likely to be higher for oesophageal transection and gastric devascularisation patients , given the major operation and the long postoperative stay . |
| 22 | The Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food has pledged more resources for the work , but these are likely to be diverted from other environmental imperatives . |
| 23 | These are likely to be the same Japanese companies that are already exploiting the forests of other Far Eastern countries such as Malaysia , Indonesia and Thailand . |
| 24 | It will specify gender , age group , the area where the murderer is most likely to live , whether they have previous convictions , what these are likely to be and more . |
| 25 | ‘ Do you tell her how many are likely to be here ? ’ |
| 26 | Some 300 people lost their jobs when Supercomputer Systems failed ; Chen had hoped to re-hire about 50 of them , but if he goes elsewhere , not many of those are likely to be offered positions . |
| 27 | Those are likely to be extended the following year to include time waits between GP referral and an appointment with a consultant . |
| 28 | All these and much more are likely to be discussed , and in some respects are more profitably discussed in groups than on an individual basis . |
| 29 | More are likely to be ill informed , to take little interest in politics , and perhaps to give rather less thought to the casting of a vote than to the marking of a pools coupon . |
| 30 | The people who may need it most are likely to be the unrecognized ones , the ones who it is somehow felt do not have a ‘ right ’ to support , even if it is known that they are upset . |