Example sentences of "[adj] [be] likely to be [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Unemployment locks the underclass into place in three ways : it is more likely to hit those who are poor ; the poorest are likely to be unemployed longest ; and , in addition , instead of compensating the unemployed , the welfare state penalizes them more than any other group on welfare .
2 While this was not a major consideration when the trial was originally planned the considerable advances in recent years have meant that the significant proportion of the patients recruited into studies such as this are likely to be potential transplant recipients .
3 Few are likely to be enthusiastic about taking up the burdens of having to compete .
4 Even so , potential examiners are known qualities : some are likely to be severe , some lenient , and the experienced and canny supervisor or head of department is likely to make nominations accordingly .
5 This is likely to be useful if your scanner is capable of handling more than one sheet at a time , since you can rad a whole batch of pages at a go .
6 There is an increase in risk due to irradiation of the breast , but this is likely to be small and is best estimated from a woman 's age and dose of irradiation .
7 If you catch your dog in the act of stealing food , then you should scold it appropriately ; after the event though , this is likely to be counter-productive .
8 This is likely to be unacceptable in certain underground storage systems where personnel are not present unless the system is ‘ locked off ’ .
9 Although the close resemblance to care management suggests that this is likely to be favourable , there are many other factors which influence outcomes in mental health care .
10 The number of deaths for which this is likely to be true is so small that it ought not to affect the analysis presented here .
11 For some countries , like Greece , Portugal and Ireland , no doubt there will continue to be largesse to be gained from her , though for the time being even this is likely to be hard to come by , as Germany piles money into her eastern territory and focuses much of the rest of her financial attentions on her former Communist neighbours .
12 If , on the other hand , the rate of interest is high , then L 2 is likely to be low .
13 The individual who 's gon na be assertive is likely to be open and honest or likely to admit things that are not so good at honest those , but they 're not gon na necessarily apologise for those , they 're gon na treat those as statements of fact and they 're certainly gon na try and involve other people and actually say what do you think this , what are some ways forward er but it does n't mean that they 're gon na be walked all over and they still stand up for the things that they firmly believe in .
14 A horse that is underfed is likely to be dull and lethargic ; whereas an overfed horse which has too little exercise , especially if it is fed grain , is likely to be over-excited and silly .
15 These are likely to be self-serving , but , in Berle and Means ' view , the possibility is also opened up that rather than furthering their own interests , or those of the shareholders as currently required by law , management might act in the interests of society as a whole , evolving into a ‘ purely neutral technocracy balancing a variety of claims by various groups in the community and assigning to each a portion of the income stream on the basis of public policy rather than private cupidity ’ .
16 These are likely to be hefty in the next few years as the European Community ( EC ) tightens the rules on drinking water and imposes new ones on sewage disposal .
17 In contrast to hydrophobic interaction between RAP30 and RAP74 , binding of RAP30 to RNA polymerase II is likely to be electrostatic , easily dissociable at a salt concentration of 0.2–0.4M ( 24,46 ) .
18 the tighter the brief as defined by the ultimate report user , the more the latter is likely to be satisfied with the end result
19 Heterogeneous conversion of ClONO 2 and HCl to HNO 3 is likely to be unimportant on background aerosols , whereas conversion of N 2 O 5 to HNO 3 by reaction ( 4 ) is likely to be important .
20 In any learning task , the proportion of cells in each chip which should be set to 1 is likely to be independent of the number of cells in the chip ; so the number of learning cycles will be roughly proportional to the size of a chip .
21 The same is likely to be true of phenylalanine uptake across the placenta .
22 The same is likely to be true for South Eastern secretarial/office staff , and throws into question the chances of success of campaigns to recruit them such as recently initiated by the major Transport and General Workers Union ( TGWU ) ( see Financial Times , 5 and 6/12/86 ) .
23 That is likely to be British-style first-past-the-post rules for both houses of parliament — the system that 82% of voters backed in the referendum , though their only alternative was the existing system .
24 We have seen that is likely to be negative where is positive , giving this term the required sign .
25 Children who are familiar with the shape and sound of letters by the age of four are likely to be good readers at seven .
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