Example sentences of "likely that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is likely that under those agreements extradition within Europe would in future be easier than it has been in the past , which I think the hon. Gentleman would welcome . |
| 2 | But it seems more likely that on this occasion a handful of key politicians and civil servants actually took the lead ; Peter Walker at the Department of the Environment ( DOE ) and Robert Carr , Home Secretary ( the Home Office set up the Urban Deprivation Unit in 1972 ) , were clearly influential , and Derek Morrell was a key official over CDP in the Home Office . |
| 3 | It is likely that at some stage the dog will run off some distance away . |
| 4 | Platon is convinced that the technique crime from Crete ; if that is so , it is likely that at least some damascened daggers await discovery at Minoan sites on Crete . |
| 5 | A set of criteria might be given as a list , but it is more likely that at least some of the relationships between individual criteria will be indicated . |
| 6 | If all the ships sail separately it is more likely that at least one ship will stray into the field of view of a submarine than if the ships sail in a tight convoy ; a convoy may slip by without being detected . |
| 7 | In the case of a firm manufacturing industrial goods , it is likely that at this stage , if not earlier , samples of the new product will be sent to the customer for testing and approval . |
| 8 | It is likely that there was also a sense that higher education on a wider basis could be provided more cheaply outside the universities , though it is likely that at the time any such view would have been based on guesswork rather than hard information . |
| 9 | It seems likely that at least some of the pathological effects of alcohol are related to its tissue concentration or the concentration of its metabolites , in particular acetaldehyde . |
| 10 | Since , in 1850 , the one bastion of that order which had escaped major trouble in 1848 was the Russian Empire , it was likely that at some point France would throw down the gauntlet to the tsar . |
| 11 | However a set of terms arrives in a particular document , it is likely that at some stage it was prepared by someone with some degree of legal knowledge . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's quite likely that for every case of reported illness there are ten to a hundred more , ’ said Jim Curran , the AIDS task force chairman at the CCD , who was seconded to the job for three months in 1981 and is now permanent The incubation period is unusually long — possibly as much as three years . |
| 13 | Insofar as there was any factual basis for people 's answers , it seems likely that for many it was MLR or bank base rate , which were between 12½ and 14 per cent at the time of the survey , and which are of course frequently mentioned in the press and on TV . |
| 14 | It is likely that for new entrants into the financial services regime , whether qualified or not , an initial test of competence will be required — as will be expected from any other financial adviser , whether a solicitor or an individual wishing to join FIMBRA . |
| 15 | It seems likely that for a parent or spouse , the experience may well be comparable to the sorts of events and difficulties implicated in depression . |
| 16 | It is likely that for regulation to be tightened , more funds are needed for the SROs to improve staffing levels , which inevitably means an increase in the costs of regulation . |
| 17 | But in spite of all this it seems likely that during much of the nineteenth century this subterranean aspect of international relations was less important , and less prominent in the minds of both diplomats and policy-makers , than at any time in the last 300 years . |
| 18 | It is very likely that since the calf injury the strength of the muscles will have deteriorated considerably . |
| 19 | It seems likely that with traffic growth and the possible warming of Britain 's climate that they will increase . |
| 20 | It is quite likely that with the call will come a ‘ special ’ understanding of the hallmarks of this new congregation . |
| 21 | On the contrary it seems on the face of it to be likely that with some learners a conscious awareness of how language works and the subjection of their experience to analysis would suit their cognitive style , increase motivation by giving added point to their activities , and so enhance learning . |
| 22 | It seems more than likely that with parishes concentrating on basic food needs , the other kinds of discretionary payments , which had been a feature of the eighteenth-century poor , were made less often and with declining generosity . |
| 23 | It is likely that by the time of its release in X11R6 — if that eventually happens — Fresco components could be incorporated into XT toolkits — it should be possible to have a gliff in an XT widget , for example . |
| 24 | It is more likely that by mid May contemporaries had recovered from any anxieties prompted by the seizure of the prince and were prepared to accept Gloucester 's protectorship at face value . |
| 25 | And in view of the later age of marriage and often long engagements of the Edwardian years , it seems likely that by the end of the nineteenth century there was a new degree of sexual restraint amongst many young adults of the working class . |
| 26 | It is also likely that by providing minimum standards of living , social services reduce public apathy and dejection and thus maintain the will to work . |
| 27 | In the early sixteenth century the prices of essential goods rose more sharply than those of inessentials , and at the same time wage differentials increased again , so it is likely that by this date population was rising again , and that as real wages declined a higher proportion of them was being spent on essential goods and less on luxuries . |
| 28 | One demand made during the Pilgrimage of Grace in 1536 was that entry fines should not exceed the value of two years ' rent , so it is likely that by this time , when a rising population was creating a shortage of land , some landlords were seeking more . |
| 29 | It is more likely that by mid May contemporaries had recovered from any anxieties prompted by the seizure of the prince and were prepared to accept Gloucester 's protectorship at face value . |
| 30 | Since the civil law options are not open to the English courts , it is likely that by the application of the doctrines of offer and acceptance , they will , in the end , find in each case one winner and one loser for each particular battle of the forms , even though that winner may not be the one who fires the last shot . |