Example sentences of "not likely to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The average age of entry for the diploma course is between 18 and 20 , though some schools accept entrants as young as 17 , others students up to 30 : age between these limits is not likely to be a problem provided the candidate shows talent , flexibility and motivation . |
| 2 | There Engels more or less tells us that the scheme presented is not likely to be changed by new discoveries . |
| 3 | If he finds a job , it is not likely to be on Wall Street and he would have to hand a quarter of his earnings back to the Brooklyn centre . |
| 4 | Those who are not responsible for raising taxes are not likely to be responsible about spending them . |
| 5 | ‘ Anyway , there 's not likely to be a wedding . |
| 6 | She had not thought it worth mentioning before as he was not likely to be found . |
| 7 | Also , eating is not likely to be viewed as a cardinal sin . |
| 8 | Calcium If you are having a reasonable amount of dairy produce you are not likely to be short of calcium . |
| 9 | This bad habit is not likely to be cured until the horse is ridden by someone with good hands who does not hurt the horse . |
| 10 | Mrs Erica Chalkley , 65 , said she thought Mr Ashdown had ‘ leadership qualities ’ but she was unhappy about his military background and was ‘ glad on the whole ’ that he was not likely to be the next Prime Minister . |
| 11 | Events of the past week have shown it is not likely to be among the major companies that total collapses will occur . |
| 12 | By 1916 it had become obvious that the war was not likely to be over for some time and the government round that it was necessary to introduce military conscription in place of voluntary conscription , in order to ensure replacement of the thousands of soldiers being killed and wounded on the battlefields . |
| 13 | When I read a novel the emotions aroused in me bring the experience of the events of the narrative into the present , but I am not likely to be misled into thinking it is actually happening for there are enough indicators in the environment to assure me that it is not . |
| 14 | coast of Benbecula and S. Uist ( Ritchie , 1966 , 1979 , 1985 ; Currie , 1979 ) also suggest that the frequency of westerly storms must have been less prior to 4000 B.P. As Currie ( 1979 p. 227 ) suggests , ‘ the stumps remaining are not likely to be an indication of forest , but rather the evidence of such sheltered locations where small woods survived the climatic conditions , often in areas which are now submerged by the sea ’ . |
| 15 | Some important groups , like the mosses and liverworts , have a sporadic fossil record extending back to the Carboniferous , but they are not likely to be encountered without a special search . |
| 16 | The great advantage of spontaneous housing is its cheapness and , until governments can provide adequate housing with the same attraction , they are not likely to be successful . |
| 17 | Well , he is not likely to be mistaken . |
| 18 | ‘ So you are not likely to be mistaken ? ’ |
| 19 | The idea that a runner can win more by not trying too hard is not likely to be well received in the hard-bitten commercial world of sports retailing , but if the winter miles are currently very wearisome and every race is a struggle to gain a few seconds , you might try leaving your watch off at a race or two and see if the Zarei approach puts a bit of the enjoyment back into running . |
| 20 | This is because the drainage of the genital region in women is more often to groups of lymph glands in the pelvis , and their involvement is not likely to be obvious . |
| 21 | Continuing along the track on a parallel course to Jingling Cave , which is unsuspected and unseen except at one point where it opens into daylight , Jingling Pot is reached , another gaping shaft described as superb in caving journals but not likely to be by timid observers . |
| 22 | It must be a proper justification which shows that your time is not likely to be wasted on a low priority . |
| 23 | If a woman is tearful and apologetic and can claim some biological disturbance , then she is not likely to be treated as severely as a man . |
| 24 | Crimes among criminals are not likely to be reported to the police for obvious reasons . |
| 25 | The second is that children who are used to watching Going Live are not likely to be enthralled by the Black and White Minister Show . |
| 26 | There are enough horror stories of rape , murder and robbery in our own society to warrant the assumption that the burglar in our bedroom is not likely to be Raffles the gentleman crook . |
| 27 | If there is very high fever then Pulsatilla is not likely to be indicated . |
| 28 | The market research survey to find out what brand of toothpaste housewives prefer is not likely to be based on very much sociological theory . |
| 29 | With modern data processing facilities , the numbers of categories are not likely to be a problem . |
| 30 | A homogeneous group of , say , Challengers is not likely to be very successful . |