Example sentences of "it is highly [adj] that he " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he can only argue to himself that they seem ’ interesting' it is highly likely that he does not really know why he is putting them in , or what he will do with the answers when he gets them . |
| 2 | It is highly significant that he had used this expression in a letter written from the conclave to a friend , Giuseppe Piazza , the Bishop of Bergamo : ‘ My soul finds comfort in the thought that a new Pentecost can blow through the Church , renewing its head , leading to a new ordering of the ecclesiastical body and bringing fresh vigour in the journey towards truth , goodness and peace ’ ( Capovilla , 1978b , p. 47 ) . |
| 3 | It is highly unlikely that he envisaged anything more than joint diplomatic pressure on Russia which would bring Nicholas to the conference table to discuss the problems at issue , which explains why he used as a pretext the totally ridiculous question of the keys to the Holy places in Jerusalem , whose custody was disputed between the Latin Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches . |
| 4 | Waterloo Boy , placed for the third year in succession , was three-and-a-half lengths adrift in third , and it is highly unlikely that he can reverse the form . |
| 5 | It is highly unlikely that he himself travelled to Muscovy and Guinea , as a later epitaph alleged ( though he had an elephant 's head displayed as a curiosity in his house ) , but he was certainly one of the richest and most prominent of overseas merchants in early Tudor London . |
| 6 | He evidently led musicians on with false promises : a long letter from the cellist Carlo Graziani details amounts owing and favours not forthcoming ( Giardini seems to have promised him a place in the Queen 's Band , though it is highly unlikely that he would have had such influence ) . |