Example sentences of "look likely [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the deal looks likely to go through at a whopping $7.5 billion , about $110 a share . |
| 2 | The visit to South Africa of several eminent Irish Rugby Football Union officers and their wives — among them the president , Ronnie Dawson — triggered off an acrimonious debate which looks likely to run on in spite of an IRFU statement regretting the safari . |
| 3 | RAILWAY workers last night looked likely to go ahead with their strike over possible job losses next Friday after exploratory talks between officials of the Rail , Maritime and Transport union and British Rail management ended in stalemate . |
| 4 | Parrott looked likely to go further in front until he missed an easy yellow in frame four . |
| 5 | Obviously the snake arrangements required intervention by domestic monetary authorities when currencies looked likely to break out of the 2¼ per cent band . |
| 6 | When he led 3–1 at the mid-session interval , Hendry looked likely to run away with it , but found himself tied at 3–3 before restoring his lead in the seventh . |