Example sentences of "likely [to-vb] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition 10 seen at Litlington on 14 October 1974 seem most likely to have been on migration , apparently the only such record for Sussex . |
| 2 | In the magnetic resonance imaging studies subjects who showed the more severe white matter changes had worse recent phenylalanine control and were more likely to have been on a normal diet without protein substitute for longer ( A J Thompson , I Smith , D P Brenton , personal communication ) . |
| 3 | So all of those people there or most of them are likely to have been on a list that the school have recommended . |
| 4 | Not many children are likely to have been to a circus ; but although they 're not as glamorous or as attractive as they once were , they still hold a fascination for children . |
| 5 | The charter does not mention this , and the period may still have been imprecise ; but it is not likely to have been above two months at most , which limited its usefulness considerably . |
| 6 | However , the marriage negotiations are likely to have been after 1027 . |
| 7 | Plants like these are very likely to have been among the earliest forms to colonise the moist margins of the land , but so far no fossil relics of undoubted mosses have been discovered from this early period . |
| 8 | When the type of home was taken into account , those dying of respiratory disease were more likely to have been in nursing homes — 14 per cent compared with 6 per cent for those dying of other conditions — whereas those dying of stroke were more likely to have been in old people 's homes : 27 per cent against 12 per cent . |
| 9 | When the type of home was taken into account , those dying of respiratory disease were more likely to have been in nursing homes — 14 per cent compared with 6 per cent for those dying of other conditions — whereas those dying of stroke were more likely to have been in old people 's homes : 27 per cent against 12 per cent . |
| 10 | To discover how cost-effective it was to sustain at home people who were judged likely to have been in an institution had it not been for the project 's services . |
| 11 | Therefore , the date of the Gospel is likely to have been in the decade 60–70 AD . |
| 12 | ‘ The poison is n't too likely to have been in a quail , ’ Rose said soothingly . |
| 13 | Thirdly , it is often impossible to tell from the inventory whether a person was poor or whether he was living in comfortable retirement , having already passed on most of his estate to his children ; a yeoman with very few possessions is likely to have been in the latter category . |
| 14 | By late March 1019 he is likely to have been in Winchester : S 956 was granted in the royal presence to the New Minster during the first week of Easter , and has a long witness list which no doubt represents the gathering of the Easter court . |