Example sentences of "be most likely " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , I am most likely to have relationships on a day-to-day basis only with a relatively small number of people . |
| 2 | In other words , the project probably did not change schools , but change may have been most likely to occur in schools which were open to the innovation and to the ideas of equality presented by the project . |
| 3 | Where post-conciliar theology will say that the Eucharist gives the Church its unity , pre-conciliar theology would undoubtedly have been most likely to declare that it was the papacy that did so . |
| 4 | The investor has been most likely to make his contact with a licensed dealer by selling shares from the government privatisations at an apparently favourable price . |
| 5 | These were the very employers who , in the past , had been most likely to include their workers in occupational pension schemes ( Government Actuary , 1958 , 1966 , 1968 , 1972 , 1978 , 1981 ) . |
| 6 | Among the magazine articles , which are most likely to be interesting to her ? |
| 7 | They are most likely to occur because of a jerk in the cable causing an overrun , with the rope becoming tangled in the main wheel of the glider . |
| 8 | Experience has shown , however , that often it is the young and able students who are most likely to go undetected and have a low ‘ g ’ accident . |
| 9 | Once again Hindu girls from an urban background are most likely to study or at least to continue their courses after marriage , but for Muslim and Sikh girls higher education can rarely be achieved without a struggle . |
| 10 | So , in the evening when the body temperature is beginning to fall , there is a natural tendency to fall asleep and in the morning , when body temperature begins to rise rapidly , we are most likely to wake up . |
| 11 | Insurance companies pay most punitive damages because they themselves are the defendants that juries are most likely to punish substantially . |
| 12 | The plants grow where they have put themselves or they are planted where they are most likely to thrive , and the best plants are worth repeating time and again . |
| 13 | Probabilities being what they are , you are most likely to be right in assessing frame size if you assume that you are medium-framed . |
| 14 | A basic principle is to try out the things you think you are most likely to enjoy and to incorporate them into your routine on a long-term basis . |
| 15 | Because the polls , and therefore the program , are likely to shortchange the minor parties , and because the minor parties are most likely to make gains at the Conservatives ' expense , the program is liable to project somewhat too high a level of Tory parliamentary support . |
| 16 | ‘ Such properties are most likely to be located in the Midlands , North of England , Scotland and South Wales . |
| 17 | The impending deals , advisers believe , are most likely to focus on sales of peripheral businesses and expansion of core operations . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The manual alerts the teacher to the kinds of ‘ errors ’ children are most likely to make and emphasises that in the ‘ correct ’ drawing ‘ the front of the road occupies the whole width of the picture , and the distant end of it vanishes away to a point far back on the horizon ’ . |
| 20 | In order to give maximum protection , the siting of smoke detectors must be such that they are close enough to risk areas where fires are most likely to occur ( kitchens or living rooms ) , and yet be near to bedrooms and other sleeping areas . |
| 21 | Find out which reporters on the local newspaper and radio are most likely to be interested . |
| 22 | What can be said is that those whose discomfort is related to intercourse are most likely to be cured of their symptoms either by a combination of improved lubrication and post-coital urination , or by treating any infection that underlies the symptoms . |
| 23 | On the other hand it would make sense for nature to endow us with greater sexuality at a time when we are most likely to become pregnant . |
| 24 | Soil and climate , which should be taken together , determine the land potential ( see Chapter 2 ) and largely dictate the main types of farming — arable , stock-rearing , fattening , dairying , etc. — that are most likely to be viable . |
| 25 | Generalizing rather , it is probably true to say that Hawaiian-type eruptions are more common on the oceanic island volcanoes than elsewhere ( though the examples of Nyiragongo and Nyamlagira emphasize that it is only a generalization ) , since it is in these environments that the fluid basalt lavas are most likely to be found . |
| 26 | Where boys are most likely to drop this stance is when a whole group is having a go at a particular character , as this group is with Dot Cotton : |
| 27 | So just at the time when that first vital relationship between parent and child is in its most tenuous stages ‘ external tensions and difficulties are most likely to take their toll and may cause the baby to become fractious and the parent to be over-tired and irritable . |
| 28 | Your aim should be to make sure that your agreed deal addresses the questions that are most likely to arise . |
| 29 | Diana Baumrind found that authoritative parents are most likely to facilitate the development of competence and self-reliance in young children by enhancing responsible , purposive and independent behaviour . |
| 30 | These developments are most likely to affect urban dwellers and those displaced people and migrants in the urban areas who can not afford even small charges for their children 's education . |