Example sentences of "[verb] likely to [be] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah I think at the onset of the strike there were a few people who were considered likely to be forced to get back to work or to go back to work , because of what they 'd said , because of well just you know because of what they say in the meetings or because of what they did n't say in the meetings . |
| 2 | The deal looks likely to be as sweet for KKR 's investors as for Fleet/Norstar . |
| 3 | The leisure division , with the possible exception of motorway services , looks likely to be sold . |
| 4 | Today 's games received an extra boost last night when Rugby Union secretary Dudley Wood revealed that this summer 's England tour of Canada and the US looks likely to be upgraded to full Test status . |
| 5 | From this perspective , 1993 looks likely to be another year of substantial audit fee cuts . |
| 6 | Whatever happens , the TV viewer of the future looks likely to be presented with a bewildering array of alternative television systems , that are unlikely to do much for the sales of HDTV or any other wide-screen television . |
| 7 | Hull 's powerful prop looks likely to be cited to the Rugby League for a tackle on Wires second-row forward Bob Jackson , which saw the Aussie skipper carried off with a nasty eye injury . |
| 8 | A BYPASS route which would cut speeding traffic using a Suffolk road looks likely to be backed by the county council today . |
| 9 | It is the escalation of the profiling movement from a diverse and essentially idiosyncratic set of initiatives into a development that looks likely to be rationalized in terms of National Criteria in a very similar way to that imposed on the GCSE itself which makes most problematic the relationship between the two initiatives . |
| 10 | Community care looks likely to be fought over by judicial review throughout the rest of this decade . |
| 11 | This looks likely to be an occasion to remember ! |
| 12 | CLIFTONVILLE midfielder Shaun Strang looks likely to be fit in time for Saturday 's TNT Gold Cup clash with Newry . |
| 13 | The only other survivor from last year 's Glasgow team , Australian Mick Powell , is now in his fourth UK season and this one looks likely to be his best . |
| 14 | A BID to open a takeaway in Darlington town centre looks likely to be rejected because of potential noise problems . |
| 15 | A landlord who converted his house into a number of bedsits looks likely to be forced to change it back again after planning officers recommended Darlington council 's planning committee to refuse the application for the Station Road , Darlington , house . |
| 16 | TAILSPIN : Looked likely to be unplaced in Double Dutch 's race at Ascot , but finished powerfully to take third place and must be followed in similar company . |
| 17 | And afterwards the Kiwi stand-off , who earlier looked likely to be the villain after botching four shots at goal , admitted : ‘ The misses were playing on my mind . |
| 18 | Doctor and The Crippens were also scheduled to appear , as were Sore Throat , and the guest list seemed likely to be something of a hardcore Who 's Who ? — or at any rate , a hardcore Who 's That ? |
| 19 | Both these opinions were repeated to me by many people and both seemed likely to be true . |
| 20 | There was little traffic , so that Lefevre 's main problem seemed likely to be that of remaining inconspicuous . |
| 21 | He seemed likely to be doing it for quite some time to come as , rather than actually having an election , it is more a case of finding someone willing to take on the job . |
| 22 | The potential benefits of traffic calming on a more extensive scale seemed likely to be widespread , having an impact not just on the policies of the Department of Transport , but also on those of Town Planning and the Environment . |
| 23 | After a long and difficult series of negotiations Nicholas managed to save the greater part of the estate of his brother , who at one time seemed likely to be ruined . |
| 24 | He settled in for what seemed likely to be a long and gloomy winter : there was really nothing he could do except to carry on with his job and perhaps do some unpaid war work . |
| 25 | The UWC was a far more serious threat than the UBC had been : it was entirely outside the control of the party leaders and backed by over a hundred MPs ; it was aimed at a government that included Unionists as well as Liberals ; and it seemed likely to be a vehicle for the overthrow of Bonar Law by Carson . |
| 26 | One was to see her own column — for so J.D. called it — in print , another was to know whether or not Dr Neil had read it , and still another was to know what he thought of it — and none of these desires seemed likely to be satisfied . |
| 27 | While Senator Bob Kerrey of Nebraska and Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa were expected to accrue some of the black support which would otherwise have gone to Wilder , the principal beneficiary of Wilder 's withdrawal seemed likely to be front-runner Bill Clinton , who had won considerable black support in his five campaigns for the governorship of Arkansas . |
| 28 | The coincidence with union action boded ill for the survey ; response rates to the questionnaire seemed likely to be very low . |
| 29 | To John this seemed likely to be a precedent . |
| 30 | Saudi Arabia , as its new oil minister Hisham Nazer stressed , had no intention of acting — as it once had — as OPEC 's ‘ swing producer ’ , expanding production if the aggregate OPEC output fell short of the ceiling and cutting back if the ceiling seemed likely to be exceeded . |