Example sentences of "likely to [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Enjoying bondage is related to the early , or joyless , loss of virginity , while it is the men earning over £25,000 a year who are most likely to be partial to using whips . |
| 2 | Moreover , no rooms were locked in the houses , whereas in hospital environments , and in particular special units , between 15–35 per cent of the living unit was likely to be unavailable to clients . |
| 3 | In addition , it necessitates the involvements of capital receipts and private finance — neither very likely to be accessible to church and church-related community groups . |
| 4 | The sub-sections below list some of the typical operations likely to be necessary to the production of each of the products listed in 3.6 above . |
| 5 | A national survey of teachers ' attitudes to equal opportunities found that men were more likely to be opposed to promoting equal opportunities than women , but that differences in subject taught were more important than the sex of the teacher in determining his or her attitude . |
| 6 | Your suspects are likely to be opposed to one another in different ways ( if they are not , you have chosen people who do not adequately reflect different aspects of your theme ) and if they are opposed it is not unlikely that they will quarrel , again about your theme . |
| 7 | Both methods rely upon users recalling their library behaviour patterns , and are therefore likely to be inaccurate to some degree . |
| 8 | One unusual and noteworthy feature of the Diconix is that Kodak recognizes that the availability of the printer is likely to be critical to mobile users . |
| 9 | up to a point I have been able to illustrate this theme by drawing attention to contrasts which are likely to be familiar to all my readers , e.g. the difference in modern Western societies between monetary and non-monetary exchanges . |
| 10 | Furthermore , there are certain aspects of Derrida 's own strategies of writing which are likely to be familiar to anyone with any experience of literature . |
| 11 | Given the fact that less than 30 per cent of charges brought resulted in successful conviction ( when the rate for most other crimes was about 50 per cent ) , we may wonder how much substance there was in many of the accusations , or whether at times of political anxiety certain types of people were likely to be vulnerable to false accusations because they conformed to the popular stereotype of who a Jacobite was . |
| 12 | I knew from my family history I was likely to be vulnerable to cancer and luckily it was diagnosed and treated in time . |
| 13 | Ignoring or actually offending local culture is hardly likely to be conducive to success ! |
| 14 | After all , fear of the purchase process itself is hardly likely to be conducive to the build-up of positive feelings about the eventual product or service to be bought . |
| 15 | That is , it is probably undesirable for co-operative R&D ventures to include all producers of a competing range of products , and two or more co-operative projects serving the same downstream industry are likely to be preferable to a single , all-inclusive project . |
| 16 | However , we are given that errors are likely to be proportional to t . |
| 17 | The indemnity is likely to be subject to legal action between the parties . |
| 18 | These firms will offer personal services : services that are less likely to be subject to automation . |
| 19 | They are more likely to be subject to polypharmacy and the harmful interactions of potent drugs . |
| 20 | This also favoured multi-employer bargaining arrangements because , since the workforces of geographically-concentrated industries are likely to be subject to less variation in local labour market pressures , it was possible to establish and more easily maintain a meaningful wage structure for district , or higher level , employer groupings ( Beaumont et al . , |
| 21 | While we might indeed readily hypothesize that these individuals were generally less likely than Ballymacarrett people to be subject to the pressures of their personal networks and more likely to be subject to a less localized outside influence , it is hard to suggest dimensions on which a number of looseknit networks , which differed greatly from each other , might be systematically compared ( but see 5.7.4 for an account of Bortoni-Ricardo 's study of rural immigrants to a Brazilian city ) . |
| 22 | Inquire locally at the tourist office of Winterthur for opening times of these castles , as they are likely to be subject to variation from time to time . |
| 23 | The case , because of its serious nature , is to go before the Crown Court and is likely to be subject to considerable delay due to the inefficiencies of the court listing procedures . |
| 24 | Thus Wing Commander Hodsoll , Secretary of the ARP Committee , gloomily warned his colleagues in November 1936 that ‘ certain areas have been scheduled as likely to be subject to almost continuous bombing in the event of war ’ , and similar pessimism ran through the 1938 Anderson report on evacuation . |
| 25 | Atkinson Morley 's Hospital , however , is likely to be subject to further review in 3 years . |
| 26 | As previously stated , many of the terms which may be included in a set of standard terms of trading are likely to be subject to a test of reasonableness under s3 of the UCTA 1977 . |
| 27 | The diversity of factors and problems suggests that no single preventive measure is likely to be relevant to all patients , and that effective prevention will have to include different procedures at the various stages in the chain of events leading up to the suicide attempt . |
| 28 | It is more likely to be relevant to medium and long term planning and forecasting , especially ( as far as this book is concerned ) as regards market development , growth and decline . |
| 29 | It is more likely to be relevant to medium and long term forecasting and planning than quantitative techniques . |
| 30 | The intended output will be the identification of areas where reconceptualisation is required , with a view to defining new lines of social science research which are likely to be relevant to future attempts at policy formulation , both nationally and internationally . |