Example sentences of "is most likely to [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Given the decline of rural rail and bus routes ( chapter 6 ) , it is private transport that is most likely to be important , and access to cars and motorbikes is highly selective in terms of age , sex , income and social class . |
| 32 | That is the situation where the relief is most likely to be needed and if it excluded not much is left . |
| 33 | In fact , to get confidence when rehearsing your speech , read it to the person who is most likely to be encouraging . |
| 34 | The third , which is most likely to be important in long-distance homing , is that the animal has an internal ‘ map ’ sense , and can both estimate its own map reference , and knows that of the home site . |
| 35 | To begin with there is the DOS SHELL , ( also known as the FRONT END ) which is a graphical user interface , ( or GUI ) and this is most likely to be the screen you first encounter when you switch on your computer . |
| 36 | The immediate-return system is most likely to be found in localities in which the growing-season is long or year-round and in which ambient temperatures make the storing and preservation of food difficult for peoples at the palaeolithic level of culture . |
| 37 | The target figure is usually a character whose comeuppance , in terms of simple poetic justice , is most likely to be reassuring : types such as the avaricious or preoccupied merchant , the boorish peasant , the selfish priest , in the roles of jealous husband or cohabitor , or selfish would-be seducer . |
| 38 | MRS is most likely to be caused by an airborne virus , rather than a bacterium or agent like that which causes BSE . |
| 39 | Such a claim is most likely to be instituted where the deceased son or daughter was unmarried and was contributing substantially to the maintenance of his or her parents . |
| 40 | The emphasis throughout is on a practical approach concentrating on those areas where legal expertise is most likely to be required . |
| 41 | If we are not to infer from Anderson 's breach of Grice 's Co-operative Principle that he is deliberately being rude ( unlikely , when McKendrick is a complete stranger to him ) then it is most likely to be seen as evidence of his vagueness or , less favourably , his self-centredness . |
| 42 | It 's unlikely that they will imagine that the most helpful appliance is most likely to be one of three , battling to get through the traffic from new parts of Leicester , Lancaster Place Leicester and Wigstone . |
| 43 | This has been implied er in Mr 's analysis of road , rail and bus and clearly there is to be integration between all three systems but particularly er with regard to the bus er method of tran public transport as this is most likely to be accessible . |
| 44 | But the boss himself is most likely to be out . |
| 45 | Although the present results suggest that the visceral-specific exon is most likely to be associated with the SM2 type MHC , the functional significance of this arrangement of exons remains to be determined . |
| 46 | Assimilation of manner is much less noticeable , and is only found in the most rapid and casual speech ; generally speaking , the tendency is again for regressive assimilation and the change in manner is most likely to be towards an ‘ easier ’ consonant — one which makes less obstruction to the airflow . |