Example sentences of "likely [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The key behaviours that , even in the most difficult circumstance , make a win-win outcome more likely are : |
| 2 | So , if it is easy to transgress , how likely are any infringements to be discovered ? |
| 3 | Rising prices are perceived as a threat to living standards , so that the faster prices are increasing the more likely are workers to wish to join a union in order to maintain their standards of living . |
| 4 | Whether or not the Chairman of the KGB ( Victor Chebrikov ) , the Minister of Foreign Affairs ( Eduard Shevardnadze ) and the senior Party Secretary for defence production ( until July 1985 Grigori Romanov ) , have the formal status of permanent members , it is clear that they are in regular attendance , as very likely are the Chairman of the MVD ( Vitaliy Fedorchuk ) and the Chairman of the Military-Industrial Commission ( Leonid Smirnov ) . |
| 5 | It can be argued , to the contrary , that the more the courts are opened up to arguments based about the interests of the public or of significant sections of it rather than of particular individuals , the more likely are the judges to be drawn into political battles which ought to be resolved in the political arena and not in courts . |
| 6 | Within the profession the general feeling is that the greater the degree of autonomy that can be given to teachers and schools , the more likely are they to accept responsibility for educational provision and become committed to improving its quality . |
| 7 | For example , the higher the cross-elasticity of demand between rival goods or brands , the more likely are exclusive purchasing agreements to be socially desirable , and vice versa . |
| 8 | The parser was trained by taking a database of manually parsed sentences and extracting statistics that refer to the likelihood of a non-terminal parse being obtained from a set of constituents ( e.g. what are the possible set of constituents that can form an adjectival phrase and how likely are they to do so ) . |
| 9 | Paradoxically , the more severe the reflux the higher are the papillae and hence the more likely are the stem cells to be damaged . |
| 10 | The greater is managerial freedom on questions of pricing , internal organization and investment , the more likely are public enterprises to act in ways inimical to the political objectives of government , or as Feigenbaum ( 1982 : 109 ) puts it , ‘ to pursue strategies dysfunctional to the public weal ’ . |
| 11 | But I think , I mean they seem , these people had a , a jurisdiction of between ten to fifty si fifty or sixty thousand people , now so th th he 's , Mao 's saying that not all of them are , are evil , not all of them are , it 's only some who are but I think every sixty thousand more than likely are gon na look at theirs as being the evil one , that they are going to want to , to overthrow . |
| 12 | Very likely in n it ? |
| 13 | who are sitting waiting for posts , erm , it 's most likely be one of those that will get it . |
| 14 | Owner occupiers were more likely to relocate but the most likely were those in rented accommodation from private landlords or those living rent free . |
| 15 | But more likely is the possibility that it will continue to respond to events , in the way it has done in the past — and there is no guarantee that the evolution Cox envisages will be any more natural than the modernization of Iran seemed to be in the 1970s . |
| 16 | What makes war likely is not that America and Iraq are not talking . |
| 17 | It is unlikely that any of us could remember the first time we saw our own reflection ( mirrors often form part of toys aimed at very small babies , such as activity mats or cot toys , and there are , of course , lakes , kettles and other possibilities for reflection ) ; what is likely is that it was a member of our family ( probably our mother ) who told us : ‘ That 's you , that 's what you look like ’ . |
| 18 | Turnout at general elections is seldom more than about 75 per cent so Gallup asked voters : How likely is it that you will go out and vote in the General Election ? |
| 19 | What does , however , seem likely is that the great marketing operation for citizenship education , like that of citizenship before it , has involved the promotion of a product which its advertisers do not fully comprehend . |
| 20 | How likely is the disease to be passed on or acquired in any one given act of sexual intercourse between an infected and an uninfected person ? |
| 21 | The more often that this happens , the more likely is any individual to acquire infection . |
| 22 | ‘ But I think the most likely is that it has something to do with a girl . ’ |
| 23 | The most likely is that the ferret has somehow shed her muzzle and has then killed a rabbit . |
| 24 | The more basic and important to life a particular metabolic process is , the less likely is it to have changed significantly throughout evolution . |
| 25 | Even more likely is that our first-remembered food was mother 's milk . |
| 26 | Having read the description of A Touch of Frost , how likely is it that you will watch it ? |
| 27 | How likely is it that he would change his story ? |
| 28 | How likely is it that the other staff would volunteer information , especially about practices in which they themselves might have been involved ? |
| 29 | What does seem likely is that MASSMoCA 's commissioners will petition the governor to release funds incrementally to allow construction to begin . |
| 30 | According to Schumann , the greater the distance the more likely is the pidginisation of the target language . |