Example sentences of "likely [prep] be [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Notice that each successive peak and trough is likely to be above all preceding ones because of underlying growth in the economy 's productive capacity . |
| 2 | As a consequence , although a company might have more or less orders at any one time , it is less likely to be without any orders than the one-man operation which can contract to only one customer at any one time . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , ex-care women were much less likely to experience the protective effect of a non-deviant supportive spouse , firstly because they were more likely than comparison women to marry men with problems , and secondly because they were much more likely to be without any kind of spouse . |
| 4 | In the context of a dispute over the future of pits and communities , the main difference is thus likely to be between those areas with good prospects ( because of high productivity capabilities and substantial quantities of accessible , easily-worked coal ) and those with much less secure futures . |
| 5 | This can be a vacuous form of words , conveniently forgotten as students settle down in their maths , their physics , their geography lessons to acquire ideas which are , we acknowledge , of potential general application , but which are likely to be of little use if the connections between theory and practice are not made explicitly . |
| 6 | One of the modules likely to be of most interest to teacher researchers is Professional Development in Action . |
| 7 | Indeed , it is only in such cases that reference to Hansard is likely to be of any assistance to the courts . |
| 8 | Whether or not any special rule survives for trespassing cattle is not likely to be of any importance now that damages for personal injuries can not be recovered under that head . |
| 9 | People are avoided if they are likely to be at all stressful ; phone-calls go unreturned ; even social events that would normally be pleasurable and fun may feel like yet more demands on a person 's time . |
| 10 | and it 's likely to be at half a million a year , and the production will start in nineteen |
| 11 | I would of thought it was more likely to be on this floor |
| 12 | In particular , the new demand is likely to be for those concerned with software . |
| 13 | Students and carers are likely to be among those who will be affected by this . |
| 14 | those with difficulty looking after themselves , the confused , the incontinent , the blind , the deaf , and the bad tempered were more likely to be in such homes than others . |
| 15 | The user must be able to predict from one part of the semantic net what is likely to be in another , analogous part of the semantic net . |