Example sentences of "likely [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Bernice 's experience , small or introverted men were those most likely to be obsessive . |
| 2 | And it should be added that some degree of ethnocentrism is likely to be endemic because all discourses and individuals necessarily have to use language and categories . |
| 3 | Is the writer seriously suggesting that changing from a system where fees are paid in full by the state to a system where they are paid wholly or partly by the student is likely to be encouraging ? |
| 4 | In fact , to get confidence when rehearsing your speech , read it to the person who is most likely to be encouraging . |
| 5 | In Britain , the government has yet to place its safer-sex advertising aimed at ‘ men who have sex with men ’ in non-gay publications , thus by-passing those men who do not identify as gay and so are least likely to be well-informed because of their minimal contact with the gay scene . |
| 6 | I reckon they 're more likely to be friendly than otherwise . |
| 7 | Simons ( 1981 ) , for instance , argues that evaluation which is forced on schools by outsiders ( a power-coercive strategy ) is likely to be half-hearted , distort reality , engender defensiveness and hostility in teachers , and is unlikely to be sustained . |
| 8 | As a result , settlement was likely to be uneven , and the whole building could tilt as a gap opened up beneath it , breaking its back . |
| 9 | Early development is likely to be uneven because of differentiation in initial conditions . |
| 10 | If the goals of public health medicine are health promotion and the prevention of ill health , warn Whitty and Jones , then the specialty is in danger of veering off course in pursuit of the purchasing function , which ‘ is likely to be ineffective in improving the population 's health and may even be in direct conflict with this role . ’ |
| 11 | If they fail in this they are likely to be ineffective and encourage forms of organisation and control that are essentially unprofessional in their character and consequences . |
| 12 | It creates a compulsion to refuse treatment or only to accept treatment which is likely to be ineffective . |
| 13 | In the types of premises under consideration , having accepted that conventional methods of fire fighting are likely to be ineffective , the success of controlling fire may perhaps no longer be judged in terms of cubic capacity alone . |
| 14 | Cross-fertilisation with publishers , government printing offices , and the computer industry is essential but likely to be ineffective until the historical profession gets its own house in order and begins to include its computer-literate members fully into the fold . |
| 15 | In these relationships , both parties are likely to be risk-averse , perhaps employees more so than the manager as they may have a greater proportion of human and other capital tied up in firm-specific assets . |
| 16 | The critic 's standing is thereby reduced , and the description or evaluation of the prize works is less than likely to be uninfluenced by their new position . |
| 17 | Enjoying bondage is related to the early , or joyless , loss of virginity , while it is the men earning over £25,000 a year who are most likely to be partial to using whips . |
| 18 | The S4 pupils were also those most likely to be unauthorised absentees ; 27% of all S4 pupils were absent without authorisation at least once during the week , in contrast to 5% of all S1 pupils . |
| 19 | First , and perhaps most importantly , the existence of communicative understanding at a pre-verbal level means that the precise meaning of the words spoken by the adult are likely to be redundant . |
| 20 | Dooling argued that if an individual sentence is comprehended as part of a larger semantic unit , part of the meaning of the sentence is likely to be redundant . |
| 21 | Directions as to how to use the aid should also be given together with a discussion of the circumstances in which its use is likely to be helpful . |
| 22 | This may again be necessary for work with learning resources , but librarians and experienced teachers will in any case want to stress the absolute necessity of previous detailed checking to see that the resources likely to be helpful and required are actually available . |
| 23 | It is worth avoiding official-sounding phrases such as ‘ marital status ’ , ‘ length of service ’ and also slang unless it is really likely to be helpful . |
| 24 | The proportion severely disabled also differed with gender , women living alone being considerably more likely to be disabled than men living alone , at all ages . |
| 25 | However , in practice there are likely to be great problems in bringing a successful action . |
| 26 | There is little or no tradition of democratic government in these new states and the influence of Western liberal democratic traditions is not always likely to be great . |
| 27 | It can be concluded therefore that the action project appears to make a difference in terms of the length of time people are sustained at home , but only to a certain type of dementia sufferer , and the numbers affected are likely to be small unless a wide geographical area is covered . |
| 28 | Single bushes present no problems since the root system is likely to be small and shallow , but a thicket — a group of bushes and brambles combined — is less easy . |
| 29 | However , the pension from the graduated scheme is likely to be small . |
| 30 | Any ozone depletion is likely to be small , however , because despite the huge increases in reactive surfaces provided by the Pinatubo aerosol , which resulted in a mid-latitude loss of 20% NO 2 , there was no apparent reduction in the ozone column . |