Example sentences of "be [adv] likely that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if B had no actual knowledge it would be most likely that he would be fixed with knowledge on the basis of the reasonable man test . |
| 2 | The Brownings and Ferdinando would be back in June so it would be best to go at once , when it would be more likely that her absence would be looked on leniently . |
| 3 | The second possibility that Nikolaev committed the murder under the guidance of the NKVD seems to be more likely that the first possibility because so many people seem to have conveniently neglected their duties but I still think that it is not the most likely . |
| 4 | However , if staff led by a head and one or two senior colleagues worked their way through these tasks ( and it might be more likely that senior staff themselves would have drafted the audit and put it forward for discussion , alteration and approval by others ) , they would be familiar with most of the important issues concerning the national curriculum . |
| 5 | During childhood they also were more likely that others to have received gifts or remained home from school when ill . |
| 6 | If you are not prepared to project it properly , it is most likely that people will only see the wrong parts ! |
| 7 | Although there are other possible sources , it is most likely that these lines are an echo of Pope 's comments on Martha Blount 's celibacy : |
| 8 | Now that the Institution 's policy for the provision of part-time education has been made clear for , say , the next ten years , it is most likely that all new entrants to the profession will be studying for surveying degrees or diplomas and the profession will have finally become a graduate one . |
| 9 | It is most likely that it had to do with the extra fasts practised by the Pharisees and in this case the disciples of John the Baptist , who may have been mourning the death of their leader . |
| 10 | Though there is an element of ambiguity about the whereabouts of Wilfrid 's see , it is most likely that Ealhfrith intended him to be bishop of York , the significance of which is unlikely to have been lost on Wilfrid and his royal patron if Pope Gregory 's original plan to establish York as an archbishopric was known to them . |
| 11 | d ) The Decision Maker : where decisions take the form of modified re-buys or new task purchasing , it is most likely that senior functional , divisional or general management will take the actual decision to purchase , and choose the supplier , specification and product . |
| 12 | As the tensile strength of rocks is lower than the compression and shear strengths it is most likely that rock will be shattered during cooling and contraction . |
| 13 | After a contrasting period ( the third , or the third and fourth sentences ) it is most likely that we will return to the original theme . |
| 14 | These two buildings were , therefore , clearly under military control , and it is most likely that they represented a collection centre for the annona militaris , a tax thought to have been introduced by Severus . |
| 15 | Unless the gutter has split or cracked , it is most likely that either the gutter ( or downpipe ) is blocked and needs clearing ( page 78 ) or that a bracket has given way and the gutter is sagging . |
| 16 | I think it is most likely that the Course will be completed by then but because they have to have their final papers in , the week or two before , it may be that they will be staying on to around that time . |
| 17 | However , it is most likely that many expert tasks are also soon to be taken over by machines . |
| 18 | And in any case , it 's most likely that it was a completely misleading headline in the press . |
| 19 | If there 's a supply side shock , erm , if we take bad weather in say the northern hemisphere , that 's going to affect prices , but because there are some producers who sell on the world market who come from the southern hemisphere , right , perhaps , there 's good weather in the southern hemisphere , and that 's , because there 's a larger geographical area over which erm , production is spread , it 's less likely that we , we 're going to see major fluctuations in supply right , and as a result it 's less likely that we 're going to see major fluctuations in price . |
| 20 | If there 's a supply side shock , erm , if we take bad weather in say the northern hemisphere , that 's going to affect prices , but because there are some producers who sell on the world market who come from the southern hemisphere , right , perhaps , there 's good weather in the southern hemisphere , and that 's , because there 's a larger geographical area over which erm , production is spread , it 's less likely that we , we 're going to see major fluctuations in supply right , and as a result it 's less likely that we 're going to see major fluctuations in price . |
| 21 | It is highly likely that the decision of the governors of Altrincham Grammar School for Girls to suspend two Muslim girls who wished to wear head scarves to school for being in breach of school uniform rules would also have been unlawful . |
| 22 | In retrospect , it is highly likely that if Lederle had responded to my letter and Burroughs Wellcome had not , the whole idea of immunosuppressive chemical therapy would have been dropped as an interesting , but unsubstantiated , speculation . |
| 23 | It is highly likely that this agglutinin is fibrinogen ( Gartner et al , 1980 ; Berndt & Phillips , 1981 ) . |
| 24 | If it is not discovered , however , it is highly likely that there is something wrong with the assumptions ; the data can certainly dampen over-enthusiastic imagination . |
| 25 | If he can only argue to himself that they seem ’ interesting' it is highly likely that he does not really know why he is putting them in , or what he will do with the answers when he gets them . |
| 26 | It is highly likely that she was the same woman that Emma Southwick imagined was having a nip with Tiller in the back room during rehearsals way back in the St James 's Hall times . |
| 27 | Go on any Earth Mysteries trip to an ancient site and it is highly likely that you will see at least one person walking holding wire rods or holding a weight on the end of a piece of string . |
| 28 | It is highly likely that the new Committee , due to take up office at the end of the year , will make the appointment permanent , in which case Bonito Oliva will be responsible for the organisation of the 1995 centenary exhibition . |
| 29 | It is highly likely that the basic English common law rule ( that ownership can not be transferred from someone who has no title ) applies . |
| 30 | Of course it is highly likely that the corporate finance arm and the client will be contractually bound in any case , thus enabling us to dispense with the issue of whether an obligation of confidence is owed . |