Example sentences of "he [be] unlikely [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would like to say a last word about Amis 's voices , and about the long words which have been or might be laid on his confident art — a terminology for which he is unlikely to be grateful . |
| 2 | And he is unlikely to be disappointed . |
| 3 | In the voting case , he may choose not to vote because he calculates that he is unlikely to be decisive ( i.e. , there will be a majority for one outcome independently of his vote ) . |
| 4 | He is unlikely to be satisfied with an offer to re-run the reselection procedure if it can be proved that there have been any serious breaches of the party 's rules . |
| 5 | But he is unlikely to be satisfied forever with the illusion of power . |
| 6 | Unless the traveller has some idea of where he is starting from and the conditions he may meet along the way , he is unlikely to be able to decide upon a satisfactory route . |
| 7 | He is unlikely to be startled by the kind of evidence or hypothesis presented by us and by other writers . |
| 8 | When patients who did not contact their general practitioners before their attempts were questioned about why they had not gone to their doctor , it was found that many were reluctant to trouble him , some had found him unhelpful in the fist , and others thought he was unlikely to be helpful or might even be unsympathetic ( Hawton and Blackstock 1976 ) . |