Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] unlikely [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since cultures are unlikely to be maintained for more than 4 or 5 days they can generally be kept free of bacterial contamination by conducting all manipulations in sterile media with flame-pulled glass mouth pipettes under dissecting microscopes in a dust-free area , for example surrounded by Perspex dust covers . |
| 2 | Third parties are unlikely to be able to challenge concessions granted to a taxpayer . |
| 3 | If the lease requires the service of a notice , informal discussions between the parties are unlikely to be held to amount to a review of the rent ( Esso Petroleum Co Ltd v Anthony Gibbs Financial Services Ltd ( 1983 ) 267 EG 351 ) . |
| 4 | Although these familial influences are unlikely to be the primary focus of the intervention , they are important points of reference , helping both the therapist and client make sense of the presenting problems . |
| 5 | The CAB has become quite used to responding to emergencies , so when a bureau is alerted to an impending crisis and the clients are unlikely to be able to visit the bureau , the workers go out to the clients . |
| 6 | ‘ Non-German bond yields are unlikely to be able to undercut their DM counterpart , and with plenty of supply on the way , the floor will not come down too quickly . ’ |
| 7 | Problems in personal relationships are unlikely to be altered directly by medication . |
| 8 | The figures for primary schools are unlikely to be very different . |
| 9 | The study found , however , that those with company-subsidised cars were unlikely to be attracted by cheap public transport . |
| 10 | We might surmise that the separations John experienced between the ages of two and seven years resulted in the development of an internal blueprint predicting that close relationships were unlikely to be sustained , and cautioning against becoming involved with others . |
| 11 | The recommendation , and its ultimate partial acceptance , have been criticised on the grounds that lack of legal advice at an early stage may simply lead to disputes later on , to be resolved with the support of legal aid , and that the cost savings were unlikely to be substantial . |
| 12 | The relatively small difference in median age between the patients and the control subjects is unlikely to be important . |
| 13 | But this doctrine of matching policy instruments to policy variables is unlikely to be effective in all cases : for example , a desire for strategic reasons to protect a domestic defence industry from foreign takeovers , or a desire to maintain a diversity of ownership in the newspaper industry . |
| 14 | Black had already excluded investment in dwellings , in the social services , and in North Sea oil , on the grounds that investment in these sectors was unlikely to be affected by an accelerator principle . |
| 15 | If a total of less than 1% of the population is undefined then the errors are unlikely to be great , but the reliability of the moments decreases sharply as the proportions of undefined materials increases , and the technique should not be used with a higher proportion of unknowns notwithstanding the convenience and availability of pocket calculators suitable to perform the arithmetic . |
| 16 | If that part of the journey from home to destination that lies outside the immediate neighbourhood can not be made safely and easily by bike or on foot , then the environmental and safety gains made inside neighbourhood traffic calmed areas are unlikely to be fully utilised . |
| 17 | For instance , since the DNA-PK appears to be restricted to DNA-bound substrates , non-DNA-binding proteins that bear Ser-Gln motifs are unlikely to be recognised by the DNA-PK in vivo . |
| 18 | These may take the form of problems which even if proved empirically to influence resource needs do so in such particular , local , and sometimes subtle ways that statistical models are unlikely to be sensitive enough to be helpful . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I believe that there is a very complex social dynamic operating in this ( and other ) areas of education and that therefore simple cause-and-effect hypotheses are unlikely to be adequate . |
| 21 | But true salesmen are unlikely to be deterred by mere realism . |
| 22 | However , while the growth of the international financial system would seem to imply the need for increasingly centralised decision-making , individual countries were unlikely to be willing to relinquish the freedom to conduct their own economic affairs for the sake of the greater international good . |
| 23 | Chris Fleetwood , chief executive of Darlington-based Whessoe told the briefing that larger companies were unlikely to be significantly affected his included . |
| 24 | Likewise , leasing companies were unlikely to be able to retain more than one third of the aircraft they ordered on their own balance sheets . |
| 25 | Binding to multiple sites is unlikely to be a feature specific to the autoregulatory function of 140k , since DNase I footprinting analysis of the HSV-1 glycoprotein gD promoter , which is activated by 140k in transfection assays ( 15 ) , identifies multiple sites of VT2 protection and extensive DNase I hypersensitivity ( data not shown ) . |
| 26 | It follows , therefore , that the cost associated with membership of the European currency union in terms of lost revenues for these countries is unlikely to be significant . |
| 27 | On the basis of current knowledge , such excitability of central nociceptors is unlikely to be controlled by opiates alone . |
| 28 | The board of directors is unlikely to be in as good a position as the manager to judge on this . |
| 29 | While short-term separation of parent and child under favourable circumstances is unlikely to be damaging to the child , long-term separations can have more serious effects , particularly when they occur in the first three to four years of the child 's life . |
| 30 | The battle to conquer viruses is unlikely to be transformed by the sort of dramatic advance that penicillin made in the earlier fight against bacteria . |