Example sentences of "[was/were] likely to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colin Cranston , deputy firemaster in the Lothian and Borders brigade , said late last night his team of 60 rescuers had uncovered two cellars where any survivors were likely to be . |
| 2 | He told the conference — which is considering future world political , economic , social , scientific and environmental trends — that with the relative decline in the economic importance of the United States and the diminishing military threat posed by the Soviet Union , the new civil super powers of the 1990s were likely to be Japan and Western Europe . |
| 3 | He also had a high opinion of British travellers and officials but felt that they were not dedicated , or good examples of Christian virtues ; they had not been chosen for their moral worth and were likely to be judged by Muslims in that light . |
| 4 | It was clear that the free-enterprise ( indeed , Thatcherite ) peoples of Hong Kong were likely to be swallowed up in a huge Marxist empire of uncertain direction . |
| 5 | They also regarded their influence as a finite resource to be husbanded , used on major issues , and not frittered away on minor skirmishes or issues on which they were likely to be in a minority in Cabinet . |
| 6 | This view is summarized in a memorandum sent to embassies abroad by the Foreign Office early in 1945 , arguing for a necessary linkage of diplomatic commitments to economic strength , but going on to state that Britain 's looming economic problems were likely to be temporary : ‘ It must , however , be stressed that , given skill and good fortune , our financial difficulties will be acute only during the immediate post-war years . |
| 7 | In conditions of general ‘ dollar shortage ’ the effects were likely to be significant . |
| 8 | I used to believe it was possible to make forecasts — market forecasts in particular — which were likely to be accurate . |
| 9 | Dr Pentreath , speaking at the European Study Conference in London , said the teeth of the NRA were likely to be drawn by the bill before the organisation has a chance to use them . |
| 10 | There were few potential trouble spots , in which British forces were likely to be involved , that were not reasonably close to the sea ; and naval forces had the advantage of being able to lie out of sight over the horizon during periods of tension . |
| 11 | The SDP were likely to be a far greater danger to us , as disgruntled ex-Conservative voters who would never have voted Labour in a million years turned to a cosy middle party . |
| 12 | Those few were likely to be surgeons , dentists , accountants and solicitors in private practice , certainly not schoolmasters , university lecturers , architects in public service ( most of them ) or vets . |
| 13 | Therefore , subjects of study required a broad approach which initially in Shearman 's view were likely to be local history , central government or local government issues . |
| 14 | Similarly , there was an average swing to the Tories in those boroughs where poll tax demands were below government estimates or where household bills were likely to be less than under the rates . |
| 15 | Moreover , educated young Catholics were likely to be put off by the party 's style of opposition , which could often appear even more obsessed with sectarian symbolism than the Unionists were . |
| 16 | However , other workers who studied the effect of gliclazide in diabetic subjects have felt that the beneficial effects of gliclazide on platelet function were likely to be due to its hypoglycaemic action rather than to any direct effect on haemostatic function ( Paton et al , 1982 b ) . |
| 17 | One primary school teacher from Gile describes the problems of keeping a school going once the villagers knew they were likely to be attacked by the forces of Renamo : |
| 18 | How many men were there in Vienna known to Fräulein Müller , who were likely to be on the scene when needed , and now preferred to remain anonymous ? |
| 19 | No coach- or cart-horses , subject to hard work and gross negligence and ignorance were likely to be presented . |
| 20 | ‘ Few projects for amending the condition of the needy , and for the reduction of parish rates , would be so beneficially devised as to build lodging houses in places where they were likely to be let : and in what way could money be more securely deposited than by a general subscription , in shares of fifty or one hundred pounds each : five thousand pounds would build a number of houses , worth from five to twenty-five pounds per annum , or double that sum if furnished . ’ |
| 21 | But very soon pressure from the vassals — and also , it may be , the simple fact that a good vassal 's children were likely to be good vassals themselves — made it common , then normal , and finally an inherent part of the feudal contract that the grant was heritable . |
| 22 | In the belief that all ‘ accessory food factors ’ were likely to be amines , one of the early researchers suggested that they be called vitamins , that is vital amines . |
| 23 | Uncles and aunts were likely to be out of touch with what was happening to their family on the continent , and sometimes there were tensions and disagreements which had caused them to move away in the first place . |
| 24 | He was one-paced and , even at this lowly level , there were likely to be one or two horses behind her with a touch of finishing speed . |
| 25 | In addition , she undertook to research and deliver lectures on any medical aspects of history that were likely to be of interest to fellow members . |
| 26 | One government , anxious to steam-roller its programme through , scheduled five such Bills in a single motion , for no better reason than that they were likely to be vigorously opposed . |
| 27 | I asked Joyce what aspect of her phobia she felt still remained and she said that she would like to be able to go into an open space such as a park , where there were likely to be many more birds around . |
| 28 | Children picked by paedophiles were likely to be reabused or become abusers themselves . |
| 29 | The course planned to use some experimental learning and group work exercises , both of which were likely to be new concepts to the participants . |
| 30 | Litigants were likely to be neighbours who had long been on hostile terms . |