Example sentences of "but it [is] [adv] likely that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latter two sources are of uncertain reliability , while the Encomiast 's suppression of Emma 's previous marriage to Æthelred makes one suspicious of his entire treatment of the affair , but it is inherently likely that negotiations did take place , for Cnut was shrewd enough to appreciate that gaining Emma 's assistance against her sons without Richard 's goodwill would have been to leave the job half done . |
| 2 | It is reasonable to assume that the carer 's preference provides some part of the causal explanation ; but it is also likely that the carers ’ preferences were influenced by the severity of the sufferer 's condition , and by whether long-term institutional care was expected , already planned , or already known to be unlikely . |
| 3 | There is truth in this but it is also likely that , in a period which Eliot considered to be one of cultural decay before the onset of " barbarism " , he was genuinely sceptical about the importance or permanence of his work . |
| 4 | Of course , it is feasible that the Greeks were more sharp-sighted than we are , and certainly their skies were clearer ; but it is equally likely that Merope has dimmed a fair deal over the past few thousand years — in other words , that it is a variable star with a period of at least several thousand years . |
| 5 | The mine in the gill had been established about 5 years but it is very likely that it would have been an old working re-opened . |
| 6 | But it is still likely that many have only the broadest understanding of the changes . |
| 7 | This is a little more expensive than a normal invitation but it is less likely that it will get lost . |
| 8 | But it is more likely that Treasury officials are just sounding out reaction to possible measures . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But it is more likely that , while they provide reasons for different things , they share the same basic structure . |
| 11 | Gandhi 's antipathy to preaching , which was characteristic of the Christian missionary activity he was acquainted with , may have derived from his attitude to mission work in general , but it is more likely that he considered a man 's life to be a more effective testimony to the truth of his religion that his words . |
| 12 | It may be ‘ accidental that there is no Beaverbrook or Rothermere ’ but it is more likely that they would encounter an enormous backlash if they trespassed into the formal world of politics . |
| 13 | The Pauline Annalist reported a rumour that Arundel confessed to having plotted the death of the queen , but it is more likely that Mortimer saw him as a territorial rival in the Marches of Wales , where he had held the lordship of Chirk since the confiscations after Boroughbridge . |
| 14 | In certain cases , we may advance the total cost of the car , but it is more likely that we will want you to make a contribution . |
| 15 | A set of criteria might be given as a list , but it is more likely that at least some of the relationships between individual criteria will be indicated . |
| 16 | In some circumstances one might seek a maximally parallel version of a program , but it is more likely that one will be attempting to optimise it for a particular configuration . |
| 17 | Such slivers may be an accurate representation of the true situation but it is more likely that they are the result of inaccurate digitization , imprecise surveying , or the use of maps of considerably different scale . |
| 18 | Whether or not political or administrative accountability is the more desirable depends upon one 's view about the relationships that should exist between State and society , but it is more likely that where decisions are made by political appointees there is greater uncertainty , for such decisions then embody both a political and an economic dimension . |
| 19 | ‘ In the short run , it is possible that inflation will exceed the top of the target range during calendar 1993 , but it is more likely that inflation will remain in the 3 per cent to 4 per cent range in the absence of any unexpected shocks , ’ the report said . |
| 20 | Whether personal acrimony stimulated Loder can only be surmise , but it is certainly likely that Bill Saxby , jocked off Craganour after the Two Thousand Guineas , would not be bending over backwards to support that horse 's cause in the enquiry in which , as rider of Louvois , he was called to give evidence . |
| 21 | The Tour may now display a hero , but it 's also likely that this long and complicated race shelters a secret . |
| 22 | It may not be from West Yorkshire but it 's very likely that it will be . |
| 23 | Right , what we 're now going to do is incorporate that dummy variable as the regressor in our model as an explanatory variable , so what 's going to happen is that that dummy variable is turned off , alright in the first part of the sample right up until the war that dummy variable 's going to be off , right so it has a value of zero , right , then in nineteen forty through to nineteen forty five it 's switched on and what it 's going to do is to pick up any differential effects , right , in the intercept between wartime and peacetime right , we 'll talk a little bit more , more about that in a second , we 're going to add it in as a regressor , right , because it only comes on during the wartime it will pick up any shift in the intercept , right , that occurs due to the war if there is one , of course there may not be but it 's quite likely that there , there may well be , so if you type Q to come out of the data processing environment , go back to the action menu and test estimate forecast okay at the dialog box just add D one to your list of explanatory variables , alright then press the end key , right , yeah we 're gon na use the full sample right , we gon na use O L S , right you have now estimated the model with this dummy variable now just to see what 's happened to those coefficients the er incoming elasticity was at nought point six is now doubled right to one point one four more importantly , right , its T ratio has jumped from one point eight five right to six point eight , as a result , we now say that the incoming elasticity , the income coefficients , right , the significant zero , it 's important to explain the textiles as such the er , we are now getting a very different estimate for our |