Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [be] likely to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the subject does not know the junction and is attempting to decide how risky it is likely to be in other circumstances it would make sense to extrapolate from the information in the film to decide for example how busy the junction generally is , or to simply generalize from their current feelings of risk . |
| 2 | So when something goes wrong it 's likely to be very expensive … and that means new parts |
| 3 | This may be zero , though in multi-programming or multi-tasking it is likely to be finite . |
| 4 | I have to know how long she 's likely to be out of commission . ’ |
| 5 | The more formal the stock-taking procedure , the more effective it is likely to be . |
| 6 | Try and find out from your expert exactly how long it is likely to be before the report is available . |
| 7 | At the very least the results of the experiment reported in this paper remind us that not all economic agents optimize all the time , though it would appear that the simpler the problem being tackled and the more experience people have of it , the nearer to the optimal they are likely to be . |
| 8 | The harder the water the more alkaline it is likely to be , up to a pH of about 8.3 . |
| 9 | As the Children Act waits , poised for implementation , it remains to speculate on how significant and successful it is likely to be : and it is tempting to do so with benefit of hindsight in the context of all the discarded child care legislation of the past forty years . |
| 10 | Following the survey meeting , and before preparing the quote , it is worth getting BIC to make a quick trawl to indicate how easy or difficult it is likely to be to obtain information . |
| 11 | These are normally connected , and — with some notable exceptions — the better the rug , the more expensive it is likely to be . |