Example sentences of "it is [adv] likely that a " in BNC.

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1 The situation may therefore be one of predominantly increased production of VLDL ; however , it is also likely that a clearance defect is operative , as the rate of disappearance of intravenous Intralipid was reduced in a study of Type 2 diabetics , possibly due to low fatty acid incorporation into adipose tissue ( Lewis et al , 1972 ) .
2 It is also likely that a veto would produce severe strains in the relationship between Edinburgh and London .
3 further , it is intuitively likely that a clock that is becoming less strong is also becoming less accurate .
4 It is very likely that a high proportion of the clergy in the tenth and eleventh centuries were hereditary clergymen .
5 It is hardly likely that a vicious thug will wait politely while we ring the police .
6 It is hardly likely that a local authority would grant permission for a development against which it had served an enforcement notice , but it could , of course , attach conditions ; and for the owner there is the usual right of appeal .
7 In very serious cases , where it is highly likely that a series of medical reports will be necessary , the first report can be obtained from the treating surgeon .
8 If there is a clear pause ( silence ) between ‘ John ’ and ‘ is it you ’ , then according to the definition of an utterance given in the last chapter , there are two utterances ; however , it is quite likely that a speaker would say ‘ John is it you ’ with no pause , so that the four syllables would make up a single utterance .
9 It is therefore likely that a combination of conditions will occur during the next 50 years which will give rise to an Arctic ozone hole unless both CO 2 and chlorine emissions are curbed .
10 It is now likely that a student will experience ballooning a number of times while learning and will have learned to avoid moving forwards on the stick automatically .
11 It is now likely that a common position will be reached on the European Community 's Investment Services Directive before the British presidency ends in December .
12 But it is more likely that a physical restraint influenced the swirling liquids — just as bad weather cyclones and hurricanes are anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise south of the equator of spinning planet Earth .
13 It is more likely that a valuation will not be required before , for instance , a later disposal of the asset by the transferee .
14 It is more likely that a letter to ‘ Anna Payne ’ will get a response than one simply to ‘ the personnel manager ’ .
15 It is more likely that a family will lie somewhere on the continuum between these positions in its behaviour patterns .
16 Indeed , it is more likely that a small child will attempt to command an adult than the other way around .
17 It is more likely that a kid will die than reach sexual maturity at three years old .
18 Since the working class is most affected by these constraints , it is more likely that a characteristically rural working class will develop than a distinctly rural middle class .
19 It is more likely that a high-level package will be identified initially , and then after some investigation this will be refined to one or more lower level packages .
20 It is more likely that a high-level package will be identified initially , and then after some investigation this will be refined to one or more lower level packages .
21 If the mother denigrates her husband , it is more likely that a boy will become particularly anxious ( Wolff , 1983b ) .
22 Although the itching may be due to the movement of the louse over the skin , it only moves a maximum of six inches per day , and it is more likely that an allergic reaction is set up to the lice themselves or to their faeces .
23 It has been suggested that now that unions ( and not merely officials ) may in certain circumstances be liable in damages for unlawful industrial action it is more likely that an employer will pursue his claim to a full trial and there is less reason to refuse an interlocutory injunction in trade dispute cases ; but it has also been said that the ‘ right to strike ’ is a valuable ( indeed essential ) element in the system of collective bargaining and that it ‘ should not be rendered less valuable than Parliament intended by too fanciful or ingenious a view of what might develop into a serious issue to be tried . ’
24 The power of the microcomputer , with its television screen , in affecting the classroom situation is such that it is less likely that a teacher can bend a unit away from its designer 's intentions towards his own style and purpose than is the case with printed material .
25 It is nonetheless likely that an export licence will be denied , to give a British institution the chance of raising the necessary matching funds to purchase the picture , as the Cook panel has been in England since 1863 ( in the Cook family since 1868 ) and as Messrs MacGregor and Rosenberg ( Director of the National Gallery and Curator of Paintings at the Louvre , respectively ) would agree , one can not have too many Antonellos .
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