Example sentences of "they were likely to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They also regarded their influence as a finite resource to be husbanded , used on major issues , and not frittered away on minor skirmishes or issues on which they were likely to be in a minority in Cabinet . |
| 2 | One primary school teacher from Gile describes the problems of keeping a school going once the villagers knew they were likely to be attacked by the forces of Renamo : |
| 3 | ‘ Few projects for amending the condition of the needy , and for the reduction of parish rates , would be so beneficially devised as to build lodging houses in places where they were likely to be let : and in what way could money be more securely deposited than by a general subscription , in shares of fifty or one hundred pounds each : five thousand pounds would build a number of houses , worth from five to twenty-five pounds per annum , or double that sum if furnished . ’ |
| 4 | One government , anxious to steam-roller its programme through , scheduled five such Bills in a single motion , for no better reason than that they were likely to be vigorously opposed . |
| 5 | Painters had to accept that they were likely to be ignored , shunned , set on by dogs like tramps , under suspicion like wandering lunatics and criminals . |
| 6 | Initially , if they belonged to the Church of England , they were likely to be of the evangelical tendency so disturbing to comfortable Anglican parsons and laymen . |
| 7 | In this survey they looked at the different kinds of training and jobs undertaken by black people and found that they were likely to be doing worse jobs than white youth irrespective of their qualifications . |
| 8 | A spokesperson from Essex County Council said the council was looking into planting trees on the verge but it considered they were likely to be less effective there . |
| 9 | In the 1970s the average family size of graduate women at the time of interview ( 1.53 ) was considerably lower than the fertility of women with no further education ( 2.04 ) ( Cartwright 1978 ) and they were likely to be childless . |
| 10 | Now , at the sight of the river , Bigwig 's assurance was leaking again and unless he , Hazel , could restore it in some way , they were likely to be in for trouble . |
| 11 | The children with whom I worked had the least opportunity in terms of personal development and careers , and they were likely to be drawn into a variety of different forms of behaviour , among which the first was often the use of and then addiction to tobacco . |
| 12 | Obviously most firms would readily sacrifice some profit if it meant that they were likely to be in business for some time . |