Example sentences of "[adv] likely [verb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're less likely to end up with gaps and assumptions . ’ |
| 2 | Thus , the majority of this group had not reached the point of their heroin career where becoming known is most likely and so were less likely to show up in crime statistics , medical records , and so on , than longer-term users . |
| 3 | The person in the centre who is most likely to link up with the systems verifier is the SCOTVEC co-ordinator . |
| 4 | In other words , the dying mouse is the one most likely to end up in a cat 's stomach . |
| 5 | You stick a Frownie on the parts of the face you are most likely to screw up in pain — the forehead , the outer end of the cheekbones — so that when your face starts to contract , you will realise it is happening , and relax your features into a seraphic , line-free mask . |
| 6 | I was hardly likely to sit up in bed and say ‘ Do come in , have we met ? ’ was I ? ’ |
| 7 | Intel is also expected to achieve strong growth , taking over poll position this year , growing slower than RISC , but still likely to win up to 29% of the market by 1997 . |
| 8 | Much of this consensus , at least nominally , cut across party lines : Beveridge , who formalised the project of ‘ welfare ’ expansion , was a Liberal ; the 1944 White Paper on employment policy was produced under the war-time coalition ; Butler 's educational reforms were also decided in 1944 , but many people thought that the Labour Party was more likely to live up to the promise of reform . |
| 9 | TEENAGE girls are far more likely to end up as gymslip mums now than a decade ago , according to a Government report . |
| 10 | Partners who divorce are more likely to end up as local authority tenants even if they were previously owner-occupiers ( Holmans , Nandy , and Brown 1987 ) . |
| 11 | Potentially the customer holds the strong cards at this stage of the discussion : the hotelier or restaurateur knows what his business problems are and knows what the computer system is going to have to achieve — and the potential buyer , who has thought this through before the supplier appears , is more likely to end up with the right system . |
| 12 | Do Protestants or Catholics achieve more in the educational system , for example ; or are Catholics more likely to end up in prison than Protestants ? |
| 13 | Yet the schools they attend are , on the whole , not as good in terms of status , teacher input and , sometimes , physical surroundings ; they make less use of the educational system beyond the compulsory school stage ; they are less likely to pass government examinations and go on to university ; and they are far more likely to end up in manual occupations , just like their fathers and mothers . |
| 14 | I do not try and cosset these over winter by placing them into a separate tank in the garage , reasoning that the survivors will be the toughest of the bunch and more likely to make up into sturdy adult fish : come spring , they are distributed to friends . |
| 15 | Most aphids can grow up either as a wingless stationary form or a winged migratory form ; they are more likely to grow up with wings if the local population density is high . |
| 16 | However , we believe that those who are determined to understand a phenomenon and to follow their research and their intuition wherever they may lead , are on the balance of probabilities , perhaps more likely to come up with new knowledge than those who are trying to solve a narrowly defined problem or to develop a product . |
| 17 | Both Soviet and foreign estimates of the numbers threatened with starvation and death over the period 1921–2 varied enormously , and no amount of detailed research is ever likely to come up with reliable figures . |
| 18 | McDonough is now likely to team up with McGavin in attack on the long run in with Hopkins filling Martin 's role on the right , but the Layer Road worries at present are of a defensive nature . |
| 19 | We are not even likely to put up with our politicians ' abdication of monetary responsibility for long , though it is another subject they try not to mention in front of us . |
| 20 | Nonetheless , it was also pointed out that screening could be effective in uncovering treatable conditions which sufferers were otherwise likely to put up with as simply the inevitable consequence of old age . |
| 21 | Now unit six is very likely to come up in the exam so when you do this test for Monday you are in effect preparing for the exam . |