Example sentences of "be [adv] likely to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would be most likely to be extravagant on the following : |
| 2 | But a representative democracy , where the right of election is well secured and regulated , and the exercise of the legislative , executive and judiciary authorities is vested in selected persons chosen really and not nominally by the people , will in my opinion be most likely to be happy , regular and durable . |
| 3 | With the others not around , she will be less likely to be assertive to strange dogs . |
| 4 | In a business sale , the buyer will be less likely to be able to take advantage of the implied warranty , particularly because he may well be as expert as the seller in dealing with the goods which are the subject matter of the contract , and so will not ( or it will not be reasonable for him to ) rely on the seller 's judgment and skill . |
| 5 | Management as a process appears to be understood as being about taking decisions which will be more likely to be unpopular than those taken by lower ranks , i.e. , middle managers , whose task it is to mediate higher decisions by making them palatable in some way . |
| 6 | we 'd be more likely to be able to make it . |
| 7 | However , increasing use of the structural Funds and institutional arrangements to aid the market process may be more likely to be acceptable to all the member states , as the success of Germany and Japan ( who practise considerable intervention in their economies ) , has indicated the benefits of using such policies . |