Example sentences of "[be] unlikely to [be] able " in BNC.
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| 1 | you 're unlikely to be able to do anything about it . |
| 2 | They 're unlikely to be able to release names until tomorrow . |
| 3 | They are unlikely to be able to give children the stable emotional background , the consistent combination of love and firmness , which are more important than riches . |
| 4 | Alternatively , the tests can be carried out free on the NHS , and although the NHS clinics and hospitals are unlikely to be able to provide an answer within one month , Mr Goswamy believes that , with proper organisation , a three month programme should be possible on the NHS . |
| 5 | In Britain , the tits you see will be blue tits , great tits , coal tits , crested tits , marsh tits , or willow tits ( to be fair , you are unlikely to be able to distinguish the latter two unless you listen to their calls and songs ) . |
| 6 | Economic strength is the reason : unless you have German approval on a product , you are unlikely to be able to sell in Germany , as the current hallmarking debate shows . |
| 7 | The CAB has become quite used to responding to emergencies , so when a bureau is alerted to an impending crisis and the clients are unlikely to be able to visit the bureau , the workers go out to the clients . |
| 8 | On the contrary , the learning process is very time consuming and most volunteers are unlikely to be able to concentrate on acquiring new computer skills which may be only peripheral to the immediate problem of interviewing clients . |
| 9 | If you take an instant dislike to a particular hypnotherapist , or if you feel that you are unlikely to be able to establish any rapport with him , then he is not the one for you and any treatment would be unlikely to succeed . |
| 10 | ‘ Non-German bond yields are unlikely to be able to undercut their DM counterpart , and with plenty of supply on the way , the floor will not come down too quickly . ’ |
| 11 | Unless you have established for yourself what your motives are beforehand , you are unlikely to be able to present them in an attractive light to others . |
| 12 | If the housing visit is carried out too early , say six months before the transfer date , landlords are unlikely to be able to say with any certainty whether property is likely to be available for rent . |
| 13 | Third parties are unlikely to be able to challenge concessions granted to a taxpayer . |
| 14 | If you ca n't sell yourself you are unlikely to be able to sell the agency 's work . |
| 15 | In this respect dissatisfied teachers , and schools lacking a sense of common purpose , are unlikely to be able to provide educational experiences of an appropriate quality . |
| 16 | However , they are unlikely to be able to navigate sufficiently accurately using this cue alone . |
| 17 | This assumes an element of sunkness about location ( which Mathewson and Winter did not ) , so that potential entrants believe they are unlikely to be able to push established firms out of current locations . |
| 18 | However , since central government in Britain is the dominant influence upon the availability of local finance , there is a certain political duplicity here in legislation which requires local agencies to provide benefits that the centre knows they are unlikely to be able to affords . |
| 19 | In any event , whatever the possible therapeutic role of such drugs , they are unlikely to be able to help us to understand the intimate mechanisms of memory . |
| 20 | On the Government 's own figures , 37% of households — between 12m and 14m adults — will potentially be affected by the proposals , either becoming ineligible for legal aid altogether , or being eligible only on payment of a contribution they are unlikely to be able to afford . |
| 21 | Individuals , denied a common conception of their own and their fellows ' human goals within a shared moral tradition , are unlikely to be able to come to any agreement with others or to articulate their desire for fulfilment on the basis of procedural rules alone . |
| 22 | But the main intended beneficiaries of the new law are unlikely to be able to afford the rents at places they now have legal access to . |
| 23 | The worst offenders are some of the Eastern European countries , who are unlikely to be able to make substantial financial contributions . |
| 24 | But they are unlikely to be able to save more than a dozen or so seats . |
| 25 | Secondly , individual health authorities would enter the ‘ internal market ’ with different historical endowments of facilities and would be unlikely to be able to compete equally for contracts . |
| 26 | A nine year old whose father had just left the family home would be unlikely to be able to concentrate upon mathematics or science if he were beset with worries about his mother . |
| 27 | Erm , George and I had that class shared between us , he took them for an hour a week and I did and i if there is a class that any of us had ever taken that would be unlikely to be able to write something meaningful of this kind |
| 28 | In addition , individual health authorities would enter the ‘ Internal Markets ’ with different historical endowments of facilities and would be unlikely to be able to compete equally for contracts . |
| 29 | Opponents of this proposal , who included the Comptroller General , Charles Bowsher , argued that a borrowing limit above that of $25,000 million originally sought by the FDIC would threaten to draw the federal government further into debt , because the FDIC would be unlikely to be able to honour such a high level of debt on its own , and could itself be compelled eventually to turn to the government for rescue funding . |
| 30 | Some of the awkwardness in Anglo-American relations had been dispelled by a combination of circumstances ; James Byrnes had been replaced as US Secretary of State by the anglophile General George Marshall ; Britain , for her part , had supported the launch of the Marshall Plan in Western Europe ; and the Americans were beginning to appreciate that they were unlikely to be able to tame the malign hostility of the Soviet Union as Roosevelt had once hoped . |