Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [adv] likely that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's quite likely that for every case of reported illness there are ten to a hundred more , ’ said Jim Curran , the AIDS task force chairman at the CCD , who was seconded to the job for three months in 1981 and is now permanent The incubation period is unusually long — possibly as much as three years . |
| 2 | Well , his theory was that this guy was a writer or something , a historian or somebody like that , and Freud said it 's quite likely that in the past he had had either dreams about a similar dream or conscious fantasies about how he would have felt if he 'd been in the French Revolution and what might have happened to him . |
| 3 | It is also likely that by providing minimum standards of living , social services reduce public apathy and dejection and thus maintain the will to work . |
| 4 | It is also likely that in some cases syntax is influenced by the controlled access of particular lexical items — the desire to convey certain items of information earlier , rather than later , in an utterance . |
| 5 | More speculatively , it is also likely that in all cultures there are social events demarcated as formal events ( Irvine , 1979 ; J. M. Atkinson , 1982 ) , and that some aspects of formality have universal linguistic realizations . |
| 6 | It is very likely that since the calf injury the strength of the muscles will have deteriorated considerably . |
| 7 | Unfortunately it is very likely that among the men and women best qualified by talent , temperament and experience to become MPs many would be put off by the conditions imposed by the STV on the winning and the retention of a seat . |
| 8 | ‘ In the past , TUPE has not applied to MoD contracts , but now , following various European legal decisions , it is highly likely that in future it will . |
| 9 | It is quite likely that with the call will come a ‘ special ’ understanding of the hallmarks of this new congregation . |
| 10 | Many codecs already developed are designed to be upgradeable when such standards become widely accepted and it is therefore likely that within a few years dial-up videoconferencing will be possible between a wide range of different proprietary systems . |
| 11 | A set of criteria might be given as a list , but it is more likely that at least some of the relationships between individual criteria will be indicated . |
| 12 | If all the ships sail separately it is more likely that at least one ship will stray into the field of view of a submarine than if the ships sail in a tight convoy ; a convoy may slip by without being detected . |
| 13 | It is more likely that by mid May contemporaries had recovered from any anxieties prompted by the seizure of the prince and were prepared to accept Gloucester 's protectorship at face value . |
| 14 | It is more likely that by mid May contemporaries had recovered from any anxieties prompted by the seizure of the prince and were prepared to accept Gloucester 's protectorship at face value . |
| 15 | It is more likely that in many situations there is a conflict of interest between capital and labour over this issue and thus a need to negotiate the outcome . |