Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] unlikely [prep] [be] " in BNC.

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1 No final decision has been made on whether there will be legislation , but it would be unlikely to be tabled before next autumn , according to Department of Employment sources .
2 Secondly , individual health authorities would enter the ‘ internal market ’ with different historical endowments of facilities and would be unlikely to be able to compete equally for contracts .
3 Those means would be extra-parliamentary ; they would be unlikely to be confined to constitutional and lawful action and it would not be difficult to mount persuasive moral arguments for such activities .
4 A nine year old whose father had just left the family home would be unlikely to be able to concentrate upon mathematics or science if he were beset with worries about his mother .
5 In practice , if this is your only source of UK income , tax would be unlikely to be charged .
6 Therefore , vaccines that present HIV-1 envelope glycoproteins ( gp120 or gp 160 ) in their native form would be unlikely to be of clinical benefit to an HIV-infected individual .
7 This is somewhat unrealistic because provided the government has a majority in the House of Commons , any parliamentary challenge to such a decision on political grounds would be unlikely to be successful .
8 For example , an inhabitant of Glasgow would be unlikely to be held to have a genuine interest in a planning decision in Oxford .
9 Erm , George and I had that class shared between us , he took them for an hour a week and I did and i if there is a class that any of us had ever taken that would be unlikely to be able to write something meaningful of this kind
10 ( iv ) If the creditor is aware , or ought to have been aware , that the surety has been subjected to undue influence by the debtor , it would be unlikely to be sufficient if the creditor merely took steps to ensure that the surety understood the nature of the liability he or she was accepting .
11 But a machine that was powerful enough to accelerate particles to the grand unification energy would have to be as big as the Solar System-and would be unlikely to be funded in the present economic climate .
12 In addition , individual health authorities would enter the ‘ Internal Markets ’ with different historical endowments of facilities and would be unlikely to be able to compete equally for contracts .
13 Opponents of this proposal , who included the Comptroller General , Charles Bowsher , argued that a borrowing limit above that of $25,000 million originally sought by the FDIC would threaten to draw the federal government further into debt , because the FDIC would be unlikely to be able to honour such a high level of debt on its own , and could itself be compelled eventually to turn to the government for rescue funding .
14 In view of this it seems appropriate to study mucosal metabolism in ileal as well as colonic mucosa in UC patients and controls in the expectation that any abnormalities that could be detected in the histologically normal ileum of ulcerative colitis patients would be unlikely to be secondary phenomena .
15 He said the life expectancy of a large bus was about 15 years , while minibuses would be unlikely to be viable for longer than eight years .
16 But it is believed that the bank will not pull the plug in haste as its image would take a knock and the money it is owed would be unlikely to be recovered .
17 Even if he acts in such a way from what he misguidedly thinks are ‘ humanitarian ’ reasons , the tribunal will be unlikely to be impressed , as the manner of dismissal would eliminate the possibility , however remote , that following consultation , your job might be saved .
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