Example sentences of "would [verb] [be] unlikely " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can stick with months , erm , you have got several choices where you have got a version number here , you do n't need any date on at all if you do n't want any date it 's just there for your information , it you are putting a date on months are fine until you start to issue two or three in one month which I would hope is unlikely erm |
| 2 | Her sensual , teasing routine would have been unlikely to get a ‘ 15 ’ certificate at a British cinema . |
| 3 | Further research revealed that in 1414/15 an Andrew Forshey had been chosen as one of two men to represent the borough in parliament , and it seemed sensible to hazard that a man of this standing would have held property in the area , for he would have been unlikely to have been elected by his fellow bailiffs , with the assent of the whole community , if he had not been of substantial material worth . |
| 4 | It had taken a week to obtain , and had Hapsburg officialdom realized that it was for him rather than Aranyos it would have been unlikely to arrive before the end of the war . |
| 5 | It would have been unlikely were it not for the introduction of the microcomputer , and in the UK the installation of microcomputers in large numbers of secondary schools has stimulated perhaps more of this work than anywhere else . |
| 6 | Moreover , they would have been unlikely to make any connection between what was happening in their adult relationships and what had happened during childhood . |
| 7 | As a result , reforms like school boards and compulsory testing for primary school pupils — which would have been unlikely to survive unscathed in the more consensual days of previous Tory administrations — have been implemented and then decisively rejected by the public . |
| 8 | In short , tariffs by themselves would have been unlikely to have provided little more than a temporary palliative to ailing industries over the period under review . |
| 9 | Since it would have been unlikely that many property offenders would have been able to pay the fines that he advocated , they would mostly have been subjected to the forced labour that he proposed as the alternative . |
| 10 | From the extracts to which I have ventured to refer it is clear that equity would have been unlikely to have considered that there was any duty upon the creditors and their solicitors to do more than they in fact did in the circumstances of that case . |
| 11 | The vitamin E level would have had to fall much further to produce a deficiency and this would have been unlikely to happen in Alan or anyone else unless they are eating a very poor diet indeed . |
| 12 | In 1985 , 21,838 women received reduced rates of benefits , of whom an estimated 78 per cent would have been unlikely to have had any independent entitlement to any other benefit , thus rendering them economically dependent upon their partners ( unpublished statistics , DHSS , 1986 ) . |
| 13 | He said : ‘ You 'd already said his calls were being made from callboxes , a tap would have been unlikely to trace him unless he repeatedly used the same box and he 's too bright for that . |
| 14 | If this book had been written twenty years ago it would have been unlikely to contain any discussion of bias in the language of academic work . |