Example sentences of "but [pron] [is] [adv] unlikely " in BNC.
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| 1 | Admittedly , Peak District was following in the wake of Star Player , who had won the same Beverley event last season , but it is most unlikely that this fully-exposed six-year-old — hard fit from two wins in all-weather hurdles — will ever aspire to the achievements of Star Player , who went on to win three other races , including the Chester Cup . |
| 2 | We will , of course , move as quickly as possible , but it is most unlikely that my right hon. and learned Friend will be in a position to make the first pay and conditions order under the new Act immediately upon the expiry of the 1987 Act on 31 March 1992 . |
| 3 | Dungannon 's Clarke , now attached to the host K Club , has improved his score each day — 75 on Thursday , 73 on Friday and a splendid 70 yesterday — but it is most unlikely that even a golfer of his calibre could make up seven shots in one round . |
| 4 | Other players could still enter the contest , but it is increasingly unlikely that any would be acceptable to the United board . |
| 5 | But it is very unlikely that enough super-delegates , more than a quarter of whom have already endorsed Clinton , would gang up to deny him the title . |
| 6 | ‘ We do not definitely know they were on the flight but it is very unlikely they were not , ’ said Mr Beswick . |
| 7 | In STV constituencies electing three , four or five members better proportionality than in single-member constituencies can be expected , but it is very unlikely to be accurate proportionality . |
| 8 | But it is still unlikely to survive a second reading . |
| 9 | Neil Warnock , County 's manager , conceded : ‘ The winning goal was the first break we have had since Christmas but it is highly unlikely to keep us up . |
| 10 | Statistically , Oxted Green ‘ B ’ can be denied promotion from division three but it is highly unlikely that they will fall in their last match . |
| 11 | But it is highly unlikely that Bertrand found the trip as boring as his song implies . |
| 12 | The details of Julian 's life are not known , but it is highly unlikely that she was professed at the time of her visionary experience — if at all . |
| 13 | Only workers at Leyland-DAF 's Albion works in Glasgow , which lost 67 jobs from a total of 550 in Friday 's jobs-cuts announcement , have voted to take industrial action , but it is highly unlikely they will strike . |
| 14 | Only workers at Leyland-DAF 's Albion works in Glasgow , which lost 67 jobs from a total of 550 in Friday 's jobs-cuts announcement , have voted to take industrial action , but it is highly unlikely they will strike . |
| 15 | The Association of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen and Transport Salaried Staffs Association have not held strike ballots , but it is highly unlikely any trains will run because RMT members work on the signalling system . |
| 16 | The arrival of an American-style takeover market is not impossible , but it is extremely unlikely . |
| 17 | This value is consistent with our earlier results for a number of catarrhine species and with the results of Hárosi and of Baylor , Nunn and Schnapf for macaques , but it is extremely unlikely ( ) that our sample could be drawn from a population with a ratio of 2:1 , the ratio that has been proposed for man on the basis of psychophysical measurements . |
| 18 | So every one in a thousand key , might actually fit this type of lock but it 's highly unlikely . |
| 19 | You can you can apply statistics to it a bit but it 's very unlikely the statis st statistics and what really happens will always add up in fact . |