Example sentences of "[is] likely to be of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of stray cats is harder to identify — and unknown — but the figure is likely to be of similar proportion . |
| 2 | The staff of a school are its most important resource and their commitment to decisions made is likely to be of major significance in ensuring effective implementation . |
| 3 | 1.6.6 promptly to bring to the notice of any information received by which is likely to be of interest , use or benefit to in relation to the marketing and/or support of the Licensed Software ; |
| 4 | This is usually achieved easily enough by line breeding , though if the mutated genes are not dominant only a percentage of each brood is likely to be of the new form . |
| 5 | Moreover , the ensuing change is likely to be of a gradual nature and not a radical rearrangement of the political or social order . |
| 6 | ( c ) The material is likely to be of substantial value to the investigation and is likely to be admissible in evidence . |
| 7 | ( iii ) the material is likely to be of substantial value to the Investigation . |
| 8 | Non-financial reward for services is likely to be of a highly specific , immediate and implicated form ; financial recompense , however , may be translated at any time into a large range of goods and alternative services , according to the desire of the recipient . |
| 9 | This greater reliance on context means that the branch of linguistics termed ‘ pragmatics ’ ( e.g. Levinson 1983 ; Sperber and Wilson 1986 ) is likely to be of far greater significance than semantics of syntax in those material culture studies which investigate the object 's communicative abilities . |
| 10 | Established villages are likely to be of type A , that is , closed and integrated ; transitional villages will probably be of types C or D , that is , closed or open but disintegrated , while the re-established village is likely to be of type B , which is open and integrated . |
| 11 | Indeed , it is only in such cases that reference to Hansard is likely to be of any assistance to the courts . |
| 12 | The addition of colour , and specifically the facility to produce separations , is of substantial benefit to the professional graphic artist but , unless he or she already possesses a colour Macintosh II , is likely to be of little real benefit to the average user other than as a ‘ feature ’ to show off . |
| 13 | Such an intellectual process is likely to be of great value in business organisations which have a tendency to be long on action , but short on thought ! |
| 14 | A third type of dispute that is likely to be of particular interest to students of politics is that between separate branches of government . |
| 15 | Section 5 of the Act creates a relatively minor offence which is likely to be of considerable practical significance . |
| 16 | As we move across the map the members of a particular community , " A " , will perceive their relationship to the members of another community , " B " , to be either that of kinsmen or of non-kinsmen and the distinction is likely to be of critical " political " importance . |
| 17 | The vulnerability of Russian Formalism on this score seems , therefore , to suggest two important things : first , that any theory of literature , however specifically literary , needs to develop an adequate theory of non-literary issues ; and second , that an adequate theory of language is likely to be of enormous help in doing so . |
| 18 | The establishment of compulsory specialist training for solicitors in commerce and industry is in prospect and such training is likely to be of value to young solicitors whatever career paths they finally adopt . |
| 19 | I enclose some information about our current exhibition , as well as preliminary information about ‘ Scotland First Portrayed ’ , which I think is likely to be of considerable interest to your members . |
| 20 | The contribution of the primary sector is likely to be of greater relative importance in these regions than in Scotland as a whole . |
| 21 | There is no precise figure available about employment in the opencast coal industry , but the number is likely to be of the order of 17,000 . |
| 22 | In the case of minority holdings of less than 25% , the dividend yield is likely to be of primary consideration . |
| 23 | The Zoology here , from what I have already seen , is likely to be of a most interesting description , totally different in its nature from that of Sydney , but probably approaching nearer in its character to the productions found beyond the Liverpool range , or what is more properly called the interior of New South Wales . ’ |
| 24 | It is an important role of the database administrator to control attempts to keep data on the database indefinitely and to ensure that data entering the database is likely to be of use in the near future . |
| 25 | As suggested in patients with cirrhosis , it is likely to be of multifactorial origin . |
| 26 | A familiar name or mark is very influential as many who buy computer hardware and software will look for a product which is likely to be of reasonable quality and will be supported in years to come . |
| 27 | The amount of loss suffered by the consumer could be very large in relation to his financial resources , while not serious for the businessman who caused the breach , and in any event the businessman could ( in cases of breach caused by inadvertent default , at any rate ) possibly obtain insurance cover for such liability , since it is likely to be of a very low level ( see Harris v Wyre Forest District Council [ 1989 ] 2 All ER 514 ) . |
| 28 | Even if there is no directly relevant practice of the profession , the evidence of other practitioners as to what they do in similar cases and why , is likely to be of benefit to the court . |
| 29 | So unlike for the basic rate taxpayer , the impact of the Budget tax credit changes is much less significant for the higher rate taxpayer — particularly as the capital gains tax exemption the PEP provides is likely to be of far more value to wealthier investors . |
| 30 | Well it , it 's likely to be of charged under one of the loose clauses of anti-government er activities which really could mean anything , and so there , it 's more likely to be that , and if so , we have to look at the evidence then that was used to back up this claim . |