Example sentences of "[noun] [be] likely [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly organisations that find themselves in difficulty ; where the profits are not coming through , where there is pressure from shareholders for a significant improvement in profit performance ; here again , the chairman and the Board are likely to reach out to executive search consultants to find them new talent . |
| 2 | On present form , future generations are likely to look back on the 1992 election — with its emphasis on marginal tax rates — as at best rather quaint , or at worst a tragic irrelevance . |
| 3 | If a " person-to-person relationship " is made to carry too great a " flow of power " from the dominant to the subordinate position the connection between the two parties is likely to break up in violence . |
| 4 | A special feature on the Trade Finance team ( they assess whether credit risk countries are likely to cough up for BP oil they have bought ) written by freelancer Mike Martin got a separate award from the judges . |
| 5 | Only specialist engineers are likely to go down to the level of AND gates and NOR gates , and only physicists will go down further , to the level of how electrons behave in a semiconducting medium . |
| 6 | The story of what is going on in the airline industry will perhaps provide as good an example as any of the gap which is growing between what is proposed in the ‘ competition Directives ’ and how matters are likely to work out in practice as a result of the distortions caused by subsidy . |
| 7 | Despite the Children 's Act 's emphasis on partnership with parents , it seems this group of parents is likely to lose out in this most personal and painful arena . |
| 8 | Erm I think it 's also now pretty much common ground that the capacity of York city is around three thousand three hundred , but I think in in in taking an view on that , and in taking any view o on future windfalls , it is necessary for the panel to keep in mind that historically in the nineteen eighties windfalls were coming through at a time when it was not a adopted local plan for the city of York , so to some extent anything by definition of a substantial size was likely to be a windfall , erm , but also more to the point than that definitional point , I would expect to see , and I think what Mr Curtis has said earlier on that the local plan is likely to tighten up on criteria for release of sites , both small and large , he referred to the shortage of open space , and I would expect to see a policy change in short , a policy climate change , within the city of York that would constrain past historical rates of windfall release . |
| 9 | The slump is likely to go on for another two years . |
| 10 | If it 's a simple puncture , your tubeless repair kit may get you back on the road again , but if it 's a major rip , or any other sort of fault , the machine 's likely to end up on a trailer . |
| 11 | So far , the discussion of this turning-point and the debate over the direction of change has been conducted mainly in terms of what kind of manufacturing sector is likely to emerge out of the economic downturn . |
| 12 | Around 1,000 prospective buyers are likely to turn up for tomorrow 's sale . |
| 13 | This is the sort of CD that the ‘ ordinary ’ music-lover is likely to pass over in favour of something better known , on the assumption that ‘ German Harpsichord Music before Bach ’ would be of interest to the specialist only . |
| 14 | ‘ If you wanted to find out how an astronaut 's body was likely to stand up to the strain of living on a very , very heavy planet , is there some way of testing it before actually visiting the planet ? ’ |
| 15 | A second area of concern about the effects of new technology has been centred around the question of what changes are likely to come about in the nature of those jobs that are left . |
| 16 | A second consequence of Alan Linton 's biblical approach is that any one of his diseases and other topics is likely to crop up in several different parts of the same book . |
| 17 | Dennis Skinner is likely to stay on with a reduced vote . |
| 18 | After this period , however , they can remain viable for possibly years , and so heavy soil infestation is likely to build up in places where dogs congregate , such as public parks . |
| 19 | Would the Minister care to comment on a recent report by Coopers and Lybrand Deloitte — a firm of consultants on which the Government normally rely — which states that industrial output is likely to decline by between 2 and 4 per cent . |
| 20 | There will be legal pressure to settle the case : successful defendants do not recover all of their costs , and the simplest of libel actions is likely to run up at least £15,000 in costs for each party prior to trial . |
| 21 | One thing is certain , the legend is likely to live on in Ayrshire . |
| 22 | We do have a choice as to whether to make the connection or not , but , as I have said , unless one is aware of it forming at the time , the bond is likely to build up at the instinctive level . |
| 23 | Electricity demand is likely to grow by between 2% and 2.3% for the remainder of the century and by the year 2000 nuclear energy should be contributing some 40% of demand . |
| 24 | This constraint means that even with large samples of , say , 1,000 respondents , controlling for three or four factors at once means the analyst is likely to run out of cases very soon . |
| 25 | If the underwater vegetation is thick , flatworms are likely to glide out in dozens and settle on the bait . |
| 26 | I could , of course , have added that some of those crowded around the door were likely to end up like Conor unless they backed away from their relentless hedonism , from their incessant living for the moment . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , fashion pundits were speculating last night that although Anne is likely to splash out on a new outfit , she will be wearing an old hat when she walks up the aisle . |
| 28 | The difficulty with this result is that advertising is usually only one part of a marketing strategy , and that agreements on advertising are likely to spill over into other elements of that strategy including prices . |
| 29 | Well , they 're in detailed discussions , and negotiations are likely to go on for some hours . |
| 30 | The trade of elephant catching and training is likely to die out in the very near future . |