Example sentences of "likely give [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the adults distinguish between particular predator species within a class and only call to species that are likely to give them trouble , the young vervets give leopard alarm calls in response to a wide variety of terrestrial mammals , the eagle calls in response to a great many different birds and snake alarm calls in response to long thin objects , many of which are not snakes . |
| 2 | If teachers do not believe that their pupils are able to be more responsible for their own mathematical learning , then they are not likely to give them the opportunity to be so . |
| 3 | Because she 's likely to give them to you ? |
| 4 | Because she 's likely to give them to you . |
| 5 | Direct mail selling frequently uses database information to try and sell only to those people whom the seller thinks are the most likely to give him a sale . |
| 6 | In 1935 a page by David Garnett in the New Statesman first introduced me to her work , and I saw that A House and Its Head was a book likely to give me quite peculiar pleasure . |
| 7 | But I realise now that nobody is likely to give me another contract , ever again . |
| 8 | Willy voiced the philosophy he had learned by experience — it was everyone for himself ; if you did n't take what you wanted , no one was likely to give it to you . |
| 9 | This simple appraisal of size is likely to give you a good , accurate picture of physical shape ; use it in conjunction with the other methods in this chapter . |
| 10 | In the latter case I would be more likely to give you options and a reason , by saying : ‘ Would you mind moving slightly . |
| 11 | Spend your time in the way that is likely to give you the maximum return in marks . |
| 12 | If you do n't expect much from little Tommy then , little Tommy is less and less likely to give you anything much ! |
| 13 | Recent issues of the journal Nature have featured new research on the sea-level rise which is likely to give us the biggest clues : the rise at the end of the last Ice Age . |