Example sentences of "[was/were] not likely to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Places reserved for the burial of cremated remains were not likely to be filled for many years — if ever . |
| 2 | She met John frequently now by arrangement but always they spent the time where they were not likely to be seen . |
| 3 | Although in this connection too the higher courts are likely to say that the terms used are matters of fact for the magistrates , it will be open to those courts to say that in certain circumstances , the reactions of the victim were not likely to be those of harassment , alarm or distress . |
| 4 | The doctor said there were not likely to be others , and he assured her it did n't matter , so she must be all his family . |
| 5 | News had reached them of the happenings at the manor and they rightly assumed that with Tom in charge of the manor farm they were not likely to be evicted from their forest camp . |
| 6 | It was a small , unpretentious , privately run hotel , with small rooms where conversations were not likely to be overheard . |
| 7 | After 1956 — the year in which the government had tried and failed to cut off Arab support for the FLN in the ill-fated Anglo-French Suez expedition — there had been a growing perception , both in Paris and among the general public , that these dilemmas were not likely to be resolved by short-lived coalition governments of the kind that the Fourth Republic produced . |
| 8 | She had not thought it worth mentioning before as he was not likely to be found . |
| 9 | Mrs Erica Chalkley , 65 , said she thought Mr Ashdown had ‘ leadership qualities ’ but she was unhappy about his military background and was ‘ glad on the whole ’ that he was not likely to be the next Prime Minister . |
| 10 | By 1916 it had become obvious that the war was not likely to be over for some time and the government round that it was necessary to introduce military conscription in place of voluntary conscription , in order to ensure replacement of the thousands of soldiers being killed and wounded on the battlefields . |
| 11 | It is not generally realized that he did write on such topics , though it must be admitted that a frontal attack on the factory system was not likely to be poetically successful . |
| 12 | Realizing I could n't hang around on the dole forever waiting for the Tate Gallery to offer me an exhibition , and also that my boyfriend , also on the dole , was not likely to be able to support me , I decided to go for further training . |
| 13 | The press-gang gave politicians an effective method of giving a very real service to the parties more directly concerned , and it was one which should have created a lasting sense of obligation , for life before the mast in one of His Majesty 's ships was not likely to be easily forgotten . |
| 14 | But , even within such a system the role of nations was not likely to be central because the main players in such a game would be units far larger than the states that most of the characterist , ie , separatist , nationalist agitations of the late 20th century were designed to form . |
| 15 | Looking around her , she would see that while her brothers might follow their father 's trade or profession , whatever that was , or perhaps look for an apprenticeship in a traditional craft , or take advantage of the new opportunities in , say , transport — in short choose , within limits , a career that appealed to them — she was not likely to be able to indulge a personal preference . |
| 16 | She was determined the wedding would be one for the young blind girl to remember , even though it was not likely to be attended by any of the Wychwood gipsies who had been at Boz 's marriage to Nahum 's sister . |
| 17 | The general SVQ in technology was particularly attractive to us , as our construction section was suffering , at least temporarily , from the economic downturn , and whilst there was little training activity in the building sector , it was being predicted that this was not likely to be a long-term situation . |