Example sentences of "[pron] [be] unlikely [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The requirements of such a system may lead to a number of outcomes , some of which are unlikely to be beneficial to the child .
2 The anonymous donor of a very large sum to a very worthy cause has his own reasons for wishing to remain anonymous , which are unlikely to be discreditable .
3 If he held his own with other boys in the struggle for power he could hardly help behaving in ways which were unlikely to be lovable — a fact which assumed a definite importance when the only hope of affection came from those same boys .
4 I am most keen to take advantage of this offer , which is unlikely to be available in 1993/94 , given the dire state of BR 's overall financial position .
5 Such studies are of patients in a tertiary care setting who are unlikely to be representative of all persons experiencing IBS symptoms .
6 The worst offenders are some of the Eastern European countries , who are unlikely to be able to make substantial financial contributions .
7 ‘ No , officer , ’ he said slowly , ‘ I am afraid there is only my wife , and you are unlikely to be satisfied with her confirmation . ’
8 In Britain , the tits you see will be blue tits , great tits , coal tits , crested tits , marsh tits , or willow tits ( to be fair , you are unlikely to be able to distinguish the latter two unless you listen to their calls and songs ) .
9 Economic strength is the reason : unless you have German approval on a product , you are unlikely to be able to sell in Germany , as the current hallmarking debate shows .
10 If you take an instant dislike to a particular hypnotherapist , or if you feel that you are unlikely to be able to establish any rapport with him , then he is not the one for you and any treatment would be unlikely to succeed .
11 Unless you have established for yourself what your motives are beforehand , you are unlikely to be able to present them in an attractive light to others .
12 If you ca n't sell yourself you are unlikely to be able to sell the agency 's work .
13 you 're unlikely to be able to do anything about it .
14 Unless you were of ‘ a nervous disposition ’ ( what a lovely genteel phrase that is ) you were unlikely to be distressed by these tales of goodies versus the bad monsters , especially as the goodies always won in the end .
15 Pupils can sometimes be diffident in expressing their anxieties about their visual condition and may be greatly helped if they can talk to someone knowledgeable and experienced in such matters who is unlikely to be surprised by incidents which can be a worry to some youngsters , such as , for instance , a glass eye lost in the swimming pool or the effect of strong light on a photophobic ( averse to glare ) pupil which makes him sit with closed eyes .
16 The second is any child under the age of about five , who is unlikely to be able to concentrate for the necessary time — although it must be said that older children probably make the best subjects of all , as they are still at the stage where their imagination is in good working order and they have not become weighed down by the need to earn a living or the problems of bringing up a family .
17 Lending money to someone who is unlikely to be able to pay back all their obligations is like betting on a probable loser : hardly a sensible way for a prudent lender to do business .
18 But of course there had been no communication between her aunt and Silas for three years , therefore she was unlikely to be aware of what went on at this back-blocks property .
19 It is unclear just when this happens one is unlikely to be able to observe it in a casual experiment at the kitchen sink — but Fig. 24.7 shows observations made by varying the pressure behind a suitably shaped nozzle .
20 Bodies such as the DFG do what they can to encourage good research , but there are unlikely to be major changes unless the need to improve research quality becomes a political priority , both at state and federal level .
21 There are unlikely to be dramatic improvements in noise levels and air quality as a result of these speed reductions , simply because 80 per cent of the traffic now is on the main roads .
22 But given the recent decline in numbers of tenured black academics , falling Ph.Ds , retention , enrolment , and grade point averages among black students , and a decreased political commitment to their education , there are unlikely to be widespread , long-term improvements in black students ' , professors ' , and professionals ' positions in psychology .
23 In whatever format you keep them , the notes you make need to be clear ; if they are not self-explanatory at the time you write them , they are unlikely to be intelligible later , when your memory of working on the particular book or topic has faded .
24 While they are unlikely to be successful with the woodcut and the copper-plate , they may well achieve their ambition with some other processes .
25 When their prey species are inactive , cats may as well save energy , because they are unlikely to be successful in hunting , and so they rest and sleep for most of the day .
26 Anonymous approaches by telephone are now permitted although experience shows that without any forewarning of the approach they are unlikely to be successful ( see chapter 0407 for the detailed rules ) .
27 Yet it is important to convince management of these gains , otherwise it will be extremely unlikely that the information systems projects will be given the go-ahead , and even if this is achieved , they are unlikely to be successful .
28 Though they serve as parent representatives they are unlikely to be representative parents typical of the average parent at the school so they need to be encouraged to become involved in as many of the schools activities as possible , not only to gauge parental feelings and attitudes but energetically to engage in identifying ways of improving the school 's performance .
29 Unless preference shareholders are expressly granted participating rights they are unlikely to be entitled to share in any way in the ‘ equity ’ or to have voting rights except in narrowly prescribed circumstances .
30 They are unlikely to be embarrassed or contemptuous ; it is a natural human instinct to want to comfort someone who is obviously unhappy .
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