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 . |