Example sentences of "[pron] [be] unlikely [prep] [be] any " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the end is coming , screens are placed round the bed ; in any case there are unlikely to be any ‘ last words ’ , because most of us die under some form of sedation . |
| 2 | There are unlikely to be any problems in attracting a junior football club to share the school field . |
| 3 | With the Sun in its present state of inactivity there are unlikely to be any dragons worth chasing . |
| 4 | In the area of planning and scheduling there are unlikely to be any legal implications either . |
| 5 | Droit de suite remains on the Commission 's agenda for 1992 , although in view of its extensive programme in copyright-related matters there are unlikely to be any substantial recommendations or conclusions before next year . |
| 6 | There are unlikely to be any Scottish Conservative Back Benchers either , not only because there are so few of them but because none of them has participated in this debate , apart from a brief intervention by the hon. and learned member for Perth and Kinross ( Sir N. Fairbairn ) that could hardly have been described as serious participation . |
| 7 | There is unlikely to be any advance in the accuracy of dating of early Anglo-Saxon archaeology in the near future whereas the assumptions upon which such dates are allowed are very likely to come under close scrutiny . |
| 8 | If income support is in payment , there is unlikely to be any advantage for the local authority in pursuing maintenance as the DSS will simply reduce their contribution by the same amount . |
| 9 | In the light of the above factors and on the assumption that there is unlikely to be any real increase in the dollar price of oil in the medium term , the Board does not believe it to be financially prudent to maintain the 1992 dividend at the same level as that paid in respect of 1991 . |
| 10 | There is unlikely to be any external set of circumstances ( other than a revolution ) that would bring about a collapse of this type . |
| 11 | The evidence available suggests that events at the operational level will be fully automatic in normal driving and that there is unlikely to be any episodic memory available of them subsequently unless unusual circumstances occurred to force controlled processes to be used . |
| 12 | If your experiment involves other people ( e.g. if you are comparing different readers ' responses ) , you need to consider ethical issues which arise , including ( a ) getting their permission to use the results ; ( b ) showing them the results and explaining them ; ( c ) not using their names when you report the experiment ( even if they have given permission for this , there is unlikely to be any point ) ; ( d ) the ethical problem that sometimes an experiment is best conducted if the test subjects do n't know what it is for ; that is , if there is a " secret agenda " . |
| 13 | Whilst there is unlikely to be any prescriptive model of such a structure , organisational change will be a feature of the 1990s . |
| 14 | She had been in the post for only seven months when the inquiry started , had little public or professional support , and there was unlikely to be any backlash to her being blamed . |
| 15 | But a spokesman for Harrison said that after overheads there was unlikely to be any money left for the party . |
| 16 | Anxious to get news of this latest development back to their own offices and realising that there was unlikely to be any more to be gleaned from this unpleasant vigil , the remaining newspeople departed as the small convoy of police traffic vanished into the maw of the blizzard . |