Example sentences of "likely to have been [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By contrast the rare finds of silver objects from Bronze Age Europe , notably those from Sardinia , north Italy and the el Argar culture in southern Spain , are likely to have been made from local occurrences of native metals or ores . |
| 2 | The bulk of those who remain interested in UFOs seem less likely to have been motivated by personal experience and are more willing to undergo the reappraisal needed to rationalise their approach . |
| 3 | Trends in infections likely to have been transmitted by unprotected sexual intercourse between men were analysed for indications of changes in sexual behaviour . |
| 4 | Apart from the obvious point that it fails to produce uniformity its principal defect is that it leads to the application of a particular national law which is likely to have been devised for domestic transactions and may well be ill-suited to those which are international in character . |
| 5 | However , it does suggest that the patient 's distress beforehand was more likely to have been related to environmental stresses than an endogenous illness . |
| 6 | This hematite is most likely to have been formed during synkinematic circulation of moderate temperature ( 600°C ) magmatic fluids . |
| 7 | Therefore the aircraft is most likely to have been hit by heavy machine-gun fire , which , unless it hit a vital spot such as fuel tanks or engines , would not cause the immediate destruction of the aircraft , but could kill or disable the pilot . |
| 8 | Dialectology in its traditional form is therefore principally interested in geographical differences ; its best-known data-gathering technique has been to send researchers ( usually called ‘ field-workers ’ ) mainly into rural areas ( where the speakers were believed to be less likely to have been influenced by other accents ) , to find elderly speakers ( whose speech was believed to have been less influenced by other accents and to preserve older forms of the dialect ) and to use lists of questions to find information about vocabulary and pronunciation , the questions being chosen to concentrate on items known to vary a lot from region to region . |
| 9 | This is likely to have been followed by another battle near the Forest of Dean , for Edmund had an alliance with some of the Welsh , but by now both sides were doubtless exhausted , and winter was approaching . |
| 10 | Furthermore , such migrated oil is likely to have been displaced by subsequent migrating gas . |
| 11 | How many craters greater than 1 km diameter are likely to have been produced on 10 6 square kilometres on the lunar surface between 2000 Ma and 1000 Ma ago ? |
| 12 | Modern biblical scholars concur that among the most historically plausible incidents in the Gospels , among the incidents least likely to have been invented by later writers and editors , is Jesus 's baptism in the Jordan by John . |
| 13 | Eadberht abdicated of his own accord in 758 , handing the kingdom over to his son , Oswulf , and becoming a cleric at York ( where he died in 768 ) , but Oswulf was killed within the year by his own household in 759 near the unidentified settlement of Methel Wongtun and replaced by Aethelwald Moll , who is likely to have been associated with those who were responsible for Oswulf 's murder ; nor did Eadberht 's descendants recover royal power for twenty years . |
| 14 | This form , which is also found in ASL , is likely to have been borrowed by other sign languages from ASL . |