Example sentences of "[be] unlikely [prep] [be] [adj] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They actively seek to expand their influence and would appear to be aiming to cover most of west London … the group can be expected to continue in their attempts to undermine the police , but are unlikely to be successful except in conditions of widespread disorder , general strike , etc , when they might have a potential for destabilisation . ’ |
| 2 | In this respect Hoyle shared some of Stenhouse 's view ( if only implicitly ) since his concept of the ‘ creative school ’ and his concept of the ‘ extended professional ’ imply that innovations are unlikely to be effective unless they take account of the need for organisational support within the school , or teacher commitment to professional development . |
| 3 | Less than a third agreed they came by their fees easily , while half felt they made a positive effort to support and understand clients and 59 per cent that they respond very positively to requests for help and advice ( although these two groups of responses should be seen in the light of that ‘ distress purchase ’ attitude , where lawyers are unlikely to be negative when a client suddenly calls up offering business ) . |
| 4 | Further attempts to relate the incidence of Crohn 's disease to known genetic variation between populations are unlikely to be productive since differences of incidence between ethnic groups are narrowing with time and migration . |
| 5 | However , these advantages are unlikely to be important if scale economies are only limited in extent , and cost-based pricing is certainly easier to adopt . |
| 6 | They are unlikely to be worried if ‘ boring old history books ’ are discarded . |
| 7 | ( iv ) If the creditor is aware , or ought to have been aware , that the surety has been subjected to undue influence by the debtor , it would be unlikely to be sufficient if the creditor merely took steps to ensure that the surety understood the nature of the liability he or she was accepting . |
| 8 | Bede 's statement that Chad was sent by Oswiu to the archbishop of Canterbury to be consecrated , only to find that Deusdedit had died ( HE 111 , 28 ) , is unlikely to be correct because Wilfrid had known that Deusdedit was dead when he was earlier seeking consecration as Ealhfrith 's bishop and the probability must be that Oswiu 's court would have known this too . |
| 9 | Total exclusion of liability for failure to perform a contract at all is unlikely to be reasonable where it occurs because of acts or omissions within the control of the party in default , which are caused by negligence , incompetence or inadvertence but not wilful default ( " inadvertent default " ) . |
| 10 | Multicultural mathematics is unlikely to be tokenistic if it can be justified in terms of mathematical purposes , linguistic purposes and anti-racist purposes . |
| 11 | This type of ‘ topic ’ is unlikely to be identifiable as one part of a sentence . |
| 12 | Sometimes the consultant feels that there is so much ambiguity regarding the appointment that it is unlikely to be successful as presently structured . |
| 13 | In short , the privatizing of giant firms not subject to severe international competition is unlikely to be attractive unless it is accompanied by regulation . |
| 14 | The true state of affairs is unlikely to be clear until more and better quality deep seismic data become available . |
| 15 | ( As psychologist Betty Rathbone explains : ‘ A family stuck with rules that fitted the needs of their children at 3 , 4 or 5 , is unlikely to be happy when their children are 13 , 14 or 15 . ’ ) |