Example sentences of "[noun] [be] unlikely [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Third parties are unlikely to be able to challenge concessions granted to a taxpayer . |
| 2 | The CAB has become quite used to responding to emergencies , so when a bureau is alerted to an impending crisis and the clients are unlikely to be able to visit the bureau , the workers go out to the clients . |
| 3 | ‘ Non-German bond yields are unlikely to be able to undercut their DM counterpart , and with plenty of supply on the way , the floor will not come down too quickly . ’ |
| 4 | The recommendation , and its ultimate partial acceptance , have been criticised on the grounds that lack of legal advice at an early stage may simply lead to disputes later on , to be resolved with the support of legal aid , and that the cost savings were unlikely to be substantial . |
| 5 | ( This remedy is unlikely to be available at your local stockists — see Remedies and Pharmacies on page 140 ) . |
| 6 | The less the natural variation within blocks , the greater is the internal validity of the experiment ; the greater the natural variability among blocks , the greater the external validity ( though a single experiment is unlikely to be adequate in this respect ) ; and randomization of the treatments within each block eliminates bias in the comparisons . |
| 7 | The relatively small difference in median age between the patients and the control subjects is unlikely to be important . |
| 8 | If a rapid haemodynamically unstable ventricular arrhythmia is induced , or the clinical arrhythmia is induced more easily , then amiodarone therapy is unlikely to be effective and an ICD should be inserted . |
| 9 | But this doctrine of matching policy instruments to policy variables is unlikely to be effective in all cases : for example , a desire for strategic reasons to protect a domestic defence industry from foreign takeovers , or a desire to maintain a diversity of ownership in the newspaper industry . |
| 10 | If the relationship is real the mechanisms are far from clear , except that the effect is unlikely to be due to external radiation ; the possibility that it could be due to internal contamination by radioactive substances or some other exposure at work should be pursued . |
| 11 | If the association between paternal preconceptual exposure to radiation and childhood leukaemia we found is not a chance finding , the effect is unlikely to be due to paternal exposure to the forms of external penetrating ionising radiation measured by monitoring devices . |
| 12 | Because database systems require fast retrieval , this method of organising data is unlikely to be appropriate , apart from , perhaps , the storage of historical or back-up files . |
| 13 | Moreover , as payments were commonly made to gang leaders , the contractor was unlikely to be aware of even the names of men employed on the site . |
| 14 | If a total of less than 1% of the population is undefined then the errors are unlikely to be great , but the reliability of the moments decreases sharply as the proportions of undefined materials increases , and the technique should not be used with a higher proportion of unknowns notwithstanding the convenience and availability of pocket calculators suitable to perform the arithmetic . |
| 15 | But the main intended beneficiaries of the new law are unlikely to be able to afford the rents at places they now have legal access to . |
| 16 | These may take the form of problems which even if proved empirically to influence resource needs do so in such particular , local , and sometimes subtle ways that statistical models are unlikely to be sensitive enough to be helpful . |
| 17 | However , these advantages are unlikely to be important if scale economies are only limited in extent , and cost-based pricing is certainly easier to adopt . |
| 18 | I believe that there is a very complex social dynamic operating in this ( and other ) areas of education and that therefore simple cause-and-effect hypotheses are unlikely to be adequate . |
| 19 | Drugs which affect one single mediator and/or block one single receptor are unlikely to be helpful . |
| 20 | However , while the growth of the international financial system would seem to imply the need for increasingly centralised decision-making , individual countries were unlikely to be willing to relinquish the freedom to conduct their own economic affairs for the sake of the greater international good . |
| 21 | Likewise , leasing companies were unlikely to be able to retain more than one third of the aircraft they ordered on their own balance sheets . |
| 22 | It follows , therefore , that the cost associated with membership of the European currency union in terms of lost revenues for these countries is unlikely to be significant . |
| 23 | By November 1927 the patent application had been rejected on the grounds that the description was so sketchy that ‘ an expert is unlikely to be able to practise the invention ’ . |
| 24 | Palladium and electrolysis , claims of helium and energy and ‘ incomplete descriptions such that [ even ] an expert is unlikely to be able to practise the invention ’ . |
| 25 | In any event , as we have already seen , owner-occupancy among ethnic minorities , especially those of Asian origin , is higher even than that among whites and , on these grounds , discrimination in this sector is unlikely to be severe . |
| 26 | These comments suggest that the test is unlikely to be useful as a screening instrument but , when used in conjunction with other tests or with children who have already been identified as having language difficulties , it may assist in the generation of a balanced assessment of a child 's strengths and weaknesses . |
| 27 | It became increasingly clear that the Council was unlikely to be able to provide services , most notably sewerage , for houses in their new housing centres . |
| 28 | These reports suggested that inhibition of prostaglandin synthesis was unlikely to be sole mechanism responsible for the gastric damage induced by indomethacin . |
| 29 | Questions which had no real purpose in the first place are unlikely to be easy to analyse at the answer stage since the researcher is seeking for answers to his hypotheses which will show whether they are to be substantiated or not . |
| 30 | New types of integrated circuits are unlikely to be patentable for lack of novelty because many are simply more efficient or miniaturized forms of well-known electronic circuits . |