Example sentences of "likely to [be] [adj] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The critic 's standing is thereby reduced , and the description or evaluation of the prize works is less than likely to be uninfluenced by their new position . |
| 2 | Systems such as RTMAS have great practical potential in those emergency situations where there is likely to be self-evacuation by the public . |
| 3 | By contrast , many hardened black marketeers were likely to be untouched by the decree since they tended to move their rouble profits into property , gold or dollars . |
| 4 | Those who pursue comparisons of the kind I am referring to are likely to be impressed by the staying-power of a literary preoccupation to which a variety of temperaments and compulsions has been attracted , and could well be inclined to believe that Pechorin 's duel and indifference may have been among the precedents that weighed , a century later , with a woman bent on contriving her appointment with destiny . |
| 5 | Of course , these are not the abilities which we pride ourselves upon , and we are much more likely to be impressed by the few things which computers do well which we do badly . |
| 6 | Raima UK is likely to be joint-owned by the two companies , and is said by Systemstar 's David Turley to be ‘ the inevitable consequence of our selling the product for the last five years ’ . |
| 7 | The leadership also has a new control , which makes it less likely to be unhorsed by its own interest-groups than the Callaghan Government was in the late 1970s . |
| 8 | Pre-school children are less likely to be dry by 3 years if they are anxious or depressed . |
| 9 | The team is likely to be unchanged by there 's a chance Terry Fenwick may appear as one of the subs … the other is likely to be Steve White … he 's fit again |
| 10 | Our own subjective judgement about the plausibility of a theory of the origin of life is likely to be wrong by a factor of a hundred million . |
| 11 | It is also the factor most likely to be remediable by practitioners . |
| 12 | The Lottery is now likely to be operational by 1994 and all those interested in benefiting from its considerable financial fall-out will need to tender their proposals early . |