Example sentences of "[vb -s] likely to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The deal looks likely to be as sweet for KKR 's investors as for Fleet/Norstar . |
| 2 | The leisure division , with the possible exception of motorway services , looks likely to be sold . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | From this perspective , 1993 looks likely to be another year of substantial audit fee cuts . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A BYPASS route which would cut speeding traffic using a Suffolk road looks likely to be backed by the county council today . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Community care looks likely to be fought over by judicial review throughout the rest of this decade . |
| 10 | This looks likely to be an occasion to remember ! |
| 11 | CLIFTONVILLE midfielder Shaun Strang looks likely to be fit in time for Saturday 's TNT Gold Cup clash with Newry . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A BID to open a takeaway in Darlington town centre looks likely to be rejected because of potential noise problems . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Last year , Mr Ashdown and his advisers embarked on ‘ war-gaming ’ — what social workers would call ‘ role playing ’ — to explore the moves and counter-moves likely to be made in a hung Parliament . |
| 16 | It concerned only new developments and enabled local authorities for the first time to make town-planning schemes ‘ as respects any land which is in course of development or appears likely to be used for building purposes ’ . |
| 17 | But all in all , it seems likely to be a long time before we reach that ‘ Utopian world of RDS ’ for all listeners in cars , at home or on foot ! |
| 18 | But in the NWO America will always have to persuade someone : that , despite the fashion for unipolarity , seems likely to be its central fact . |
| 19 | With its main shareholders , M&G , a unit-trust group , which owns 6.9% , and the Kuwait Investment Office ( 10% ) , already nursing losses , Midland seems likely to be heading for the altar before long . |
| 20 | Pearce et al. ( 1989 ) have argued that the effects of government , commercial and other actions on the environment can and should be assessed on a cost/benefit basis and this seems likely to be the basis on which at least the UK government will proceed . |
| 21 | If this has been true of the past , it is even more true of the present and seems likely to be truer still of the future . |
| 22 | We would also like to point out that minority interest programmes will in fact be available on the BBC Home Video label if there seems likely to be enough demand . |
| 23 | Only one person among the nominated leadership and deputy leadership candidates seems likely to be prepared to shake up — and open up — that structure , and to make participation and debate a duel priority . |
| 24 | The impact on the long-term development of the world economy seems likely to be depressing . |
| 25 | This kind of interaction is consistently recognized as important for the authoring of documents and seems likely to be useful for document reuse as well . |
| 26 | That seems likely to be primarily down to Germany because the UK was flat on its back a year ago and Italy has not bubbled for some time , while the French recession is only now gathering pace . |
| 27 | That seems likely to be primarily down to Germany because the UK was flat on its back a year ago and Italy has not bubbled for some time , while the French recession is only now gathering pace . |
| 28 | However , the access route to our college for these students with additional difficulties seems likely to be long and winding , requiring commitment not only from staff such as myself , but also from those senior staff who are the policy-makers and who control the purse strings . |
| 29 | The fifth wave , the one which it is hypothesized is starting now , seems likely to be based in the non-industrial parts of the south and east of England , especially the M4 corridor and around Cambridge . |
| 30 | Moreover , the effect seems likely to be small . |