Example sentences of "were unlikely [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , while the growth of the international financial system would seem to imply the need for increasingly centralised decision-making , individual countries were unlikely to be willing to relinquish the freedom to conduct their own economic affairs for the sake of the greater international good . |
| 2 | Films made in such a way were unlikely to be breakout hits . |
| 3 | Some of the awkwardness in Anglo-American relations had been dispelled by a combination of circumstances ; James Byrnes had been replaced as US Secretary of State by the anglophile General George Marshall ; Britain , for her part , had supported the launch of the Marshall Plan in Western Europe ; and the Americans were beginning to appreciate that they were unlikely to be able to tame the malign hostility of the Soviet Union as Roosevelt had once hoped . |
| 4 | Although one of the children suffered from tuberculosis , the corporation housing department had told them that they were unlikely to be housed . |
| 5 | Unless you were of ‘ a nervous disposition ’ ( what a lovely genteel phrase that is ) you were unlikely to be distressed by these tales of goodies versus the bad monsters , especially as the goodies always won in the end . |
| 6 | The study found , however , that those with company-subsidised cars were unlikely to be attracted by cheap public transport . |
| 7 | We might surmise that the separations John experienced between the ages of two and seven years resulted in the development of an internal blueprint predicting that close relationships were unlikely to be sustained , and cautioning against becoming involved with others . |
| 8 | They were unlikely to be in real danger , the Whistler stalked at night , not in broad daylight , and no vehicle had passed him since he left the coastal road . |
| 9 | If he held his own with other boys in the struggle for power he could hardly help behaving in ways which were unlikely to be lovable — a fact which assumed a definite importance when the only hope of affection came from those same boys . |
| 10 | The people who removed themselves from the register to avoid paying the tax were unlikely to be Conservative voters ( although they were not necessarily pro-Labour either ) . |
| 11 | Ford wants to shed more than 1,400 jobs through voluntary redundancy , but Mr Adams said there were unlikely to be enough volunteers . |
| 12 | Ford wants to shed more than 1,400 jobs through voluntary redundancy , but Mr Adams said there were unlikely to be enough volunteers . |
| 13 | None had been seen at that time in the Harwell experiments that preceded ZETA but Kurchatov announced that the Soviets were seeing some neutrons which were due to fusion occurring , but were unlikely to be from thermonuclear fusion because the rate of their production did not vary with current in the expected way . |
| 14 | The loft covered an area the size of the house , with unused and shadowy places under the eaves which were unlikely to be investigated — particularly by Nigel , who , sadly , even if he came out of hospital would nevermore be able to climb the ladder . |
| 15 | However , other services geared to improve the quality of life for the elderly or those newly discharged from hospital were unlikely to be funded . |
| 16 | The indentured labourers hoped to be able to set up as independent farmers once they had worked off the costs of their passages , but the islands soon became so crowded that they were unlikely to be able to do this . |
| 17 | The English kings , however , were unlikely to be willing to relinquish a part of their inheritance which brought them revenue in the early fourteenth century of about £13,000 a year , and whose subjects accepted English rule . |
| 18 | As Speaker O'Neill forcibly pointed out to the newly elected President Carter , tactics that had worked in the relatively sedate politics of Georgia were unlikely to be effective in Washington . |
| 19 | The carvers were unlikely to be directly connected with the building of the church or the carpenters employed but would have been commissioned separately to provide these embellishments . |
| 20 | This resulted in variations between courses and problems of comparability , criteria and standards which were unlikely to be resolved without some such national machinery as was suggested in Haycocks II . |
| 21 | The recommendation , and its ultimate partial acceptance , have been criticised on the grounds that lack of legal advice at an early stage may simply lead to disputes later on , to be resolved with the support of legal aid , and that the cost savings were unlikely to be substantial . |
| 22 | This made the task of the prosecutor somewhat easier , but it had the paradoxical effect that a person who distributed such material with a mischievous intention could argue that the recipients of his material were unlikely to be influenced by it , and he was therefore not guilty if his audience were already corrupt , or were members of an anti-racist organisation , or if the publication or spoken words were so contrary to human decency that they would be likely to provoke sympathy for the intended victim rather than hatred of him . |
| 23 | Manchester TEC tells us that there are ’ between 1,200-2,000 young people in the Guarantee Group wanting to join YT for whom there were unlikely to be places available before Christmas . ’ |
| 24 | However , the Fiji Reserve Bank ( central bank ) warned that favourable world prices were unlikely to be sustained , and in the medium term the expansion of the sugar industry would be limited in terms of yield and planted area . |
| 25 | On April 9 the then Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Abdul Rahman Abdallah as Awadi said that elections were unlikely to be held before August or September 1992 due to the continued absence of an estimated 400,000 Kuwaitis ( including " second category " citizens ) who had left the country during the Iraqi occupation and who were not expected to return before the end of 1991 . |
| 26 | The rest , he said , " did not represent a necessity to us " and were unlikely to be " helpful to our security " . |
| 27 | Other estimates indicated that the economic targets of the 1986-91 five-year economic and social development plan , including a 25 per cent growth in the economy over the plan period , were unlikely to be attained . |
| 28 | In my view our fellow Members , who lived with us cheek by jowl , were fully aware of my strengths and weaknesses and were unlikely to be impressed by pictures of me on their TV screens dressed in a striped apron and pretending to wash up in the kitchen , as had happened during the Tory leadership election . |
| 29 | Levels of 1 PPM were unlikely to be exceeded if only one embalment is performed daily , but many embalmers , of course , regularly perform more than one procedure per day , in which case the current ( U.S. ) standard could very well be exceeded . |
| 30 | Speaking at a National Society for Clean Air seminar , Barton , head of a Department of Trade and Industry research establishment , warned that high recovery recycling initiatives were unlikely to be implemented if local authorities had to pay for them . |