Example sentences of "likely to [be] [adj] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , in a country where the air is as likely to be alive with mosquitoes or tsetse flies as flamingos , Mr Sandy discovered that whisky had additional uses : ‘ It appeared that consumption of one 's own product was an excellent anaesthetic for all the bugs in the tummy and I was never ill once . ’ |
| 2 | Secret eaters were more likely to be dissatisfied with their bodies , have severe eating disorders and be more concerned about their addiction . |
| 3 | Selective abortion of such children for these abnormalities can not be justified when effective postnatal surgery is available and the outcome is likely to be good with a normal lifespan without disability . |
| 4 | ALTHOUGH any couple can try , people who live together are more likely to be familiar with each other 's body odour . |
| 5 | All postgraduate students in the Faculty of Medicine , whatever their course of study , who are , or are likely to be involved with patients must hold full or limited registration with the General Medical Council and must also be professionally insured . |
| 6 | Wilko is likely to be impressed with Jobson as he has always played reasonably well vs Leeds — even in his Barnsley days . |
| 7 | Care programming may come fairly low down the list of priorities for social services , especially as the 1992/93 community care plans were likely to be preoccupied with the other community care reforms to be instituted by April 1993 ( National Council for Voluntary Organisations , 1992 ) and because the first year of the plans was experimental and so they were probably cautious in their aims . |
| 8 | Computerised financial models are employed to analyse the behaviour of the fiscal systems in the four countries to test whether they are likely to be consistent with the objectives of the parties in the changing operating environment . |
| 9 | The trouble with the new community councils is that they have largely fallen into the hands of the incoming middle-class whose views are likely to be coincident with the dominant ideology . |
| 10 | Without an explicit theory , it is not clear whether the important underlying variable is indeed of a psycho-social kind , or whether it is ( for example ) associated with the looser social ties between the individual and the local group which are likely to be congruent with a high level of social ambition . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , the path to full employment through balanced deflation is likely to be fraught with hazards . |
| 12 | They are at a stage when they are likely to be concerned with a variety of complex issues ; the meaning of life , the existence of God , ideologies , their emerging sexuality , their future career and life-style — too often science is seen as being purely instrumental with nothing to contribute to these debates . |
| 13 | When children recognise that their writing is for a real public audience , not just the teacher but other people , they are more likely to be concerned with their spelling . |
| 14 | Thus , where the first coordinators fulfilled a brief dominated by special needs , with curriculum development and TTT level-pegging a little way behind , they and their successors in 1989 were as likely to be concerned with curriculum management and teaching , in collaboration or alone . |
| 15 | In both cases , however , taxpayers are likely to be concerned with how actual spending turns out ( hence the use of the word ‘ out-turns ’ to refer to actuals ) against budgeted spending ; not least because over-spendings are likely to mean higher taxes and under-spendings lower ones . |
| 16 | Most likely to be confused with immature Tawny Pipit which has streaked breast and whitish , not deep buff . |
| 17 | Twice as many boys than girls are likely to be aggressive with outsiders but they equally fight in the home . |
| 18 | the tighter the brief as defined by the ultimate report user , the more the latter is likely to be satisfied with the end result |
| 19 | He was n't likely to be satisfied with less . |
| 20 | If the users participate more , perhaps being responsible for the design , then they are far more likely to be satisfied with and be committed to the system once it is implemented . |
| 21 | Multi-purpose chips are likely to be popular with manufacturers , because they offer the advantages of reduced chip count and board space , and faster time to market . |
| 22 | Multi-purpose chips are likely to be popular with manufacturers , because they offer the advantages of reduced chip count and board space , and faster time to market . |
| 23 | Seasonal leaflets , along the lines of those produced some years ago , are likely to be popular with visitors . |
| 24 | So either way I go , it 's likely to be unpopular with the other section . ’ |
| 25 | West Indies are likely to be unchanged with sell-out crowds of 24,000 expected for both games . |
| 26 | Even if that child 's life is not ‘ normal ’ or likely to be comparable with the lives of other people , there can be no arbitrary rule which condemns certain babies to death because they do not conform to some spurious notion of that which constitutes a satisfying or fulfilling life . |
| 27 | Bodies are selected to have properties ensuring growth and survival ; these properties are likely to be incompatible with accurate replication . |