Example sentences of "[noun sg] likely to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | replaced the catch-all provisions of the 1911 Official Secrets Act with narrower offences depending on specific tests of the harm likely to be caused by disclosure , while giving special protection to vital information relating to our national security ; |
| 2 | The intention was for them to be escorted by the combined fleets from Brest and Toulon and the combination of the two , to outnumber any force likely to be brought against them , was a vital part of the French plan . |
| 3 | A widening of the euro/domestic differential leads to increased issuance — an effect likely to be feeding from the lender side of the market rather than the borrower . |
| 4 | Is the recipient likely to be able to purchase the goods ? |
| 5 | Nevertheless , there was a simple weight-loss equation on which it was possible to estimate the maximum amount of weight likely to be lost each week on any specific calorie allowance . |
| 6 | This hypothesis is compatible with earlier results and with a study of hypertensive patients with high renin profiles , a condition likely to be associated with increased angiotensin II , who were found to be at higher risk of coronary heart disease than those with low renin profiles . |
| 7 | What are the farmers in the drawing likely to be saying to one another when they meet at market ? |
| 8 | The strike is likely to have knock-on effects causing some delays for travellers tomorrow , with rolling stock likely to be left out of position as a result of today 's stoppage . |
| 9 | Only where organisations appreciate the consequences for information resources , which they perceive to be valuable , is that investment likely to be made . |
| 10 | UAL chairman Stephen Wolf , who is under pressure from the rest of his board to deliver the company from its limbo state since the original $6.75billion buyout plan was dropped , began another round of talks this week with the airline 's employees and union leaders to raise support for a bid likely to be worth as little as $4.5billion . |
| 11 | Your victim would catch on before accelerating to a speed likely to be fatal . |
| 12 | Naville is more cautious than Mallet in the conclusions he draws from his analysis about the extent of conflict with management likely to be brought about as a result of extensive use of such automated technology . |
| 13 | This tended to give a certain bias to the work likely to be found in schools , especially as the coterie of advisers who knew each other 's work well , often teaching on each other 's courses and jointly helping to tutor the national D.E.S . |
| 14 | But Stewart will now miss both legs of the second round — and possibly a third game — with his dismissal likely to be judged as violent conduct . |
| 15 | We do not allow the export of arms and equipment likely to be used against the civil population . |
| 16 | The illustrations are not meant to be accurate — for use as maps — but they succeed brilliantly as indicators of the terrain likely to be found on these walks . |
| 17 | A draft law likely to be passed by the end of June would exempt anyone shifting cash before the end of the year from money-market funds to tax-free equity funds from paying tax on their capital gains . |
| 18 | The maximum amount of sediment likely to be deposited over that period along the coast generally is about 30 centimetres and we know that hurricanes will certainly rearrange that amount of material . |
| 19 | GREY MIST MERE : Tench and carp will provide first returns with sweetcorn , caster and bread likely to be tops . |
| 20 | The show purports to be a potted history of the average actor 's life not one of the starspangled knights who represent the tip of the thespian iceberg , but the common-or-garden variety likely to be found filling out the bill in a panto or carrying a spear in the background of a TV costume drama . |
| 21 | A drug company is developing a new drug likely to be useful in the alleviation of migraines and other headaches . |
| 22 | The group predicted the poor trading conditions would continue with full-year profits in the division likely to be significantly lower than the previous year . |
| 23 | But , whatever the effect of the Gulf war in the short term , is n't defence likely to be a declining sector ? |
| 24 | In mid-January the Chinese government issued details of the governmental framework likely to be established in the post-1997 Hong Kong Special Administrative Region ( SAR ) . |
| 25 | The first stages are fitted with input offset adjustments just large enough to cancel the largest field likely to be encountered , namely the total inclined component in the middle latitudes . |
| 26 | If the respondent is a government body , such an undertaking will often not be required because any damage likely to be suffered will be intangible or unquantifiable injury to the public . |
| 27 | The Vendor is not party in relation to the Business or subject to any contract , covenant , commitments or arrangement of an onerous , unusual or long-term nature or having any provision which might reasonably be regarded as material for disclosure to a purchaser for value of the Business nor is it party to any contract likely to be unprofitable or to any contract made otherwise than in the ordinary and usual course of business as now carried on . |
| 28 | Obvious flashpoints like ‘ women-only classes ’ and ‘ separatist politics ’ are avoided and terminology likely to be alarming like ‘ lesbianism ’ , ‘ patriarchy ’ , ‘ woman hating ’ and ‘ liberation ’ , is diluted into ‘ sexuality ’ , ‘ inequality of opportunity ’ , ‘ sexism ’ and ‘ equal rights ’ . |
| 29 | Planning , is of course likely to be more than just identification of needs . |
| 30 | A simple leaflet routinely given out to patients before admission to hospital for common , straightforward operations , explaining the operation they are to undergo , common after-effects , the discomfort and temporary impairment of function likely to be experienced , and so on , may prove to be helpful in the sense of increasing feelings of control and might well aid their recovery . |