Example sentences of "likely to [be] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chapter 1 noted that competitive conditions in many product markets are such that they are likely to be tolerant of managerial ineffectiveness and in some substantial deviations from the profit goal will not be incompatible with enterprise survival . |
| 2 | He meant by this that people are more likely to be convinced of the reality of the faith if our expression of it is coherent , sensible and entire . |
| 3 | No , but what I have done is to give you my expert opinion that any developments within the conservation area er within the D thirty nine part of the conservation area would be likely to be destructive of the character of the ancient part of the village . |
| 4 | Serious issues of equity of provision arise in this context , since major cut-backs in relative resources are likely to be destructive of excellence , which serves in part as a national resource . |
| 5 | It must be borne in mind that this distribution , while , likely to be typical of the 1910 sample as a whole , does reflect that sample sage structure : the information comes from marriages logged very largely between 1910 and 1920 and obviously tells us more about the families that sent their daughter to the trade in the 1900s than about the earlier decades . |
| 6 | Instead , their own households are more likely to be typical of the larger examples of the detached , the semi-detached and the bungalow , which are extended , in part through emulatory processes , to other sectors of our society with similar aspirations , to such a degree that these styles virtually command modern private development . |
| 7 | The narrator may not wholly be in jest when he refers to sexual intercourse with a certain girl , 17 or thereabouts , as ‘ the ultimate indecorum ’ , and rereaders of the novel are likely to be mindful of the survival here of an old England lived in by people like the middle-aged T. S. Eliot , exponents of a disgusted chastity . |
| 8 | A reasonable assumption is that the traditional dialect lexicon is at present in Durham being replaced rather rapidly by standard lexical items , and the same general pattern of variation is likely to be characteristic of regions such as the Scottish Lowlands where the local vernacular is historically distinct from any supra-local standard . |
| 9 | Failure to record consultations is probably fairly widespread , and so this proportion is likely to be characteristic of the total . |
| 10 | The same is likely to be true of phenylalanine uptake across the placenta . |
| 11 | Calcium If you are having a reasonable amount of dairy produce you are not likely to be short of calcium . |
| 12 | what we 're likely to be short of it seems to me we could end up being twenty four thousand pounds short at the end of the year . |
| 13 | Because constituency boundaries are fixed on the basis of figures produced by the Registrars General , these officers are not subject to ministerial control and their publications are more likely to be free of such problems . |
| 14 | We have talked in this book about the bereaved person 's need to talk and be recognized as someone having a mourning role , but if few people know us anyway , they are less likely to be aware of the major change in our life and we are less likely to feel able to talk to them about it . |
| 15 | Although aware of the anxieties inherent in seeking attachments , and the risks of loss , an authentic person is likely to be aware of her or his desires to build a meaningful life , and to pursue these with commitment . |
| 16 | They were more likely to be aware of , or be deterred by , the health risks discussed earlier . |
| 17 | In any learning task , the proportion of cells in each chip which should be set to 1 is likely to be independent of the number of cells in the chip ; so the number of learning cycles will be roughly proportional to the size of a chip . |
| 18 | But present-day theorists are likely to be dismissive of what has been called ‘ writers ' speculation about their art ’ , finding it impressionistic and unsystematic . |
| 19 | The clientele made a perfect captive audience and in the early autumn of Paula 's second year at the store the management decided to bring in models to show the new season 's fashions at the times when the restaurant was most likely to be full of ladies who had accounts with Jenkinsons and cheque books in their capacious handbags . |
| 20 | Take care when preparing vegetables — wash thoroughly , as any traces of soil are likely to be full of bacteria . |