Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] be [adv] unlikely [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No academic libraries since the time of the Travelling Workshops Experiment have successfully applied the strategy and it is most unlikely that illuminative evaluation ‘ in toto ’ will ever get the opportunity to prove itself in academic user education , largely because of the lack of time to pursue it in full . |
| 2 | There was no adequate trading base for this financial performance , and it is most unlikely that the promoters ever thought that there was . |
| 3 | The police have been criticised for their low prosecution record in rape cases and it is most unlikely that domestic rape would have been dealt with more enthusiastically . |
| 4 | As far as any remedy in damages is concerned this point will not be of any significance and it is most unlikely that any action would be brought in a business secrets case unless some damage or advantage to a competitor had occurred or was thought likely to do so . |
| 5 | And it is ecologically unlikely that vegetarian dinosaurs arrived because of growing predatory competition among reptiles , paramammals and mammals for live prey . |
| 6 | The codes are unique and it is extremely unlikely that a ‘ false ’ signal could be given or received . |
| 7 | Wordsworth 's ‘ swing to the Left ’ may be regarded as part of a general sympathy on the part of English intellectuals towards the French Revolution , and it is extremely unlikely that he was ever regarded as a leader of opinion . |
| 8 | A few years ago manuscript evidence was discovered that Torriano 's copy of de' Dondi 's clock was still at his house in Toledo in the seventeenth century , and it is therefore unlikely that , as formerly thought , it perished when the convent of San Yuste with its art treasures was set on fire by the French in 1809 . |
| 9 | In order to help such children , it is necessary to introduce novel and artificial procedures to assist learning and it is therefore unlikely that an understanding of normal processes will be of any help . |
| 10 | It was built around 1590 for a younger son of the Earl of Shaftesbury , whose family had owned the manor of Restrop for three hundred years , The coat of arms of the Ashley-Coopers ( the Shaftesbury family name ) is over the door , and it is very unlikely that such a very fine house , with its particularly beautiful roofs over the projecting bays , would have been built for a tenant farmer . |
| 11 | The other catering staff are non-committal , and it is very unlikely that they will be prepared to ‘ tell tales ’ against either Chrissie or Fred . |
| 12 | On the other hand , the rank and file of his army of conquest of 1016 , comprising Norwegians and Swedes as well as Danes , doubtless contained a fair number of heathens , and it is very unlikely that the Danish church had yet permeated national life as deeply as that of the English . |
| 13 | It was not beyond the wit of any surgeon worthy of his calling or apothecary worthy of his phial to have been able to perform superficial embalming , and it is highly unlikely that assistance was asked for at the London end . |
| 14 | Waterloo Boy , placed for the third year in succession , was three-and-a-half lengths adrift in third , and it is highly unlikely that he can reverse the form . |
| 15 | Article 6 has never been implemented and it is highly unlikely that it would be used in this way , especially as the consequence would be to release the offending State from those Charter principles that were not deemed to be customary international law . |
| 16 | It is doubtful , indeed , whether the difficulties it faced in 1861 and 1862 were as great as they look , and it is highly unlikely that the tsar decided in 1861 to substitute conservatives for reformers at the heart of the imperial administration . |
| 17 | Cohen had no means of protecting himself ; he was an elderly Jew — well , perhaps not elderly but clearly past his prime — and it was most unlikely that he 'd have the guts or the strength to attempt physical resistance . |
| 18 | Her last depressing thought before she fell asleep was that Ross must have been thoroughly bored by her complete lack of sophistication , and it was extremely unlikely that he would ever want to see her again . |
| 19 | Admittedly , Peak District was following in the wake of Star Player , who had won the same Beverley event last season , but it is most unlikely that this fully-exposed six-year-old — hard fit from two wins in all-weather hurdles — will ever aspire to the achievements of Star Player , who went on to win three other races , including the Chester Cup . |
| 20 | We will , of course , move as quickly as possible , but it is most unlikely that my right hon. and learned Friend will be in a position to make the first pay and conditions order under the new Act immediately upon the expiry of the 1987 Act on 31 March 1992 . |
| 21 | Dungannon 's Clarke , now attached to the host K Club , has improved his score each day — 75 on Thursday , 73 on Friday and a splendid 70 yesterday — but it is most unlikely that even a golfer of his calibre could make up seven shots in one round . |
| 22 | Other players could still enter the contest , but it is increasingly unlikely that any would be acceptable to the United board . |
| 23 | But it is very unlikely that enough super-delegates , more than a quarter of whom have already endorsed Clinton , would gang up to deny him the title . |
| 24 | Statistically , Oxted Green ‘ B ’ can be denied promotion from division three but it is highly unlikely that they will fall in their last match . |
| 25 | But it is highly unlikely that Bertrand found the trip as boring as his song implies . |
| 26 | The details of Julian 's life are not known , but it is highly unlikely that she was professed at the time of her visionary experience — if at all . |
| 27 | But it was surely unlikely that he had talked over the idea with someone who was little better than a stranger . |