Example sentences of "is likely [verb] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A local authority may therefore bring proceedings : ( i ) to prevent parents from removing a child accommodated by the local authority under voluntary arrangements where a return home is likely to harm the child significantly ; ( ii ) to protect a child who has been significantly harmed in the past where this is likely to happen again because , for example , a parent is known to abuse in certain recurring circumstances ; ( iii ) to protect a child who has never been harmed where the family history clearly places him at risk , eg a new born or a child reaching an age at which other children in the family have been harmed . |
| 2 | This is why much of philosophy has been barren for more than 2,000 years and is likely to remain so until philosophers learn to understand the language of information processing . " |
| 3 | What is likely to matter most when someone is buying your product is a quite vague general impression that it is familiar and that they have heard good of it somewhere : not an explicit memory of an ad . |
| 4 | The statutory regulations provided that any working platform from which a person is likely to fall more than 6ft 6in , had to be at least 34 inches in width . |
| 5 | Mortality rates are still expected to improve and , if anything , the gap between men and women is likely to widen rather than narrow . |
| 6 | It 'll be run by the security firm Group 4 , and is likely to open soon although the date has n't been announced . |
| 7 | O'Brien uses the phrase ‘ perverse incentives ’ to explain how a garage that performs poorly is likely to do better than one that performs well . |
| 8 | Children soon take advantage of this inconsistency and the ensuing reward not only negates any potential influence of the punishment ( misbehaviour is likely to increase rather than decrease ) but debases the currency of the parent 's words and deeds . |
| 9 | While there are many further applications of biotechnology in agriculture , such as in the treatment of agricultural waste , the examples given above testify to its potency as a future agent of environmental change , a potency which is likely to increase exponentially as genetic engineering develops ( section 8.4.3 ) . |
| 10 | As the figure does not cover families , yesterday 's decision to grant rights of entry to 50,000 households is likely to cover less than 20 per cent of those it targeted . |
| 11 | Barrow is likely to play today as John Kelly returns , while Neil Morton and Barry Butler are ruled out through injury . |
| 12 | The consequence is that most single parents , who have to pay someone to look after their children while at work , are now worse off if they continue part-time work , and the number of single parents in work is likely to drop dramatically because of this change . |
| 13 | THE European gravy train is likely to stretch today as around 50 more MEPs climb on board . |
| 14 | ‘ In the course of time the present [ 1954 ] conflict between Communism and Democracy , between East and West , is likely to pass just as the religious wars of the 16th and 17th century have passed . |
| 15 | This is likely to involve more than one research method or technique of investigation . |
| 16 | The project is likely to involve more than 200 researchers , and work is scheduled to start almost immediately at IBM 's Advanced Semi-Conductor Technology Centre . |
| 17 | In general , any child with hyperkinetic syndrome is likely to fare better if their exposure to synthetic chemicals ( see p 164 and 249 ) can be minimized . |
| 18 | If the global pollutant loading of chlorine continues to build up , ozone destruction will proceed even more rapidly , and the Antarctic hole is likely to appear deeper and earlier each year . |