Example sentences of "likely to be [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About half the 6,000 white collar workers are likely to be made redundant in response to the shrinking market for coal . |
| 2 | Practical guidelines are likely to be made available to health managers , but there will be no helpline number . |
| 3 | Reports about performance will be produced regularly so that results can be compared to the targets set , and the facilities of the database are also likely to be made available to managers with the help of a query language . |
| 4 | Furthermore , the military 's data banks , which contain information on ocean temperatures and currents , weather patterns and changes in vegetation in many regions of the world , are likely to be made available to environmental researchers . |
| 5 | I mean i what what we 're looking for is is the overall figure of this revised assessment of land availability for I five uses in the plan period , and your residue figure would be the one which would not likely to be made available before the year two thousand and six . |
| 6 | It 's still a hot air story , and we give most hot air stories — some dignitary with no power to do anything to change the situation has ‘ called for ’ , ‘ demanded ’ , ‘ warned ’ or whatever — but the issue is so serious that it deserves notice : we have frequently highlighted the manner in which US — and European — anti-dumping measures that supposedly benefit a tiny minority are to the detriment of the vast majority , and there is now a groundswell of opinion at the US Department of Commerce that the International Trade Commission 's brief in considering charges of dumping should extend to a review of the impact of duties on consumers ; the current issue is the anti-dumping duties likely to be made permanent today on memory chip imports from South Korea , which are sought by Micron Technology Inc but opposed by both all memory chip users and by the US chip capital equipment manufacturers that sell to the South Koreans . |
| 7 | It is important to bear in mind that there may be a significant amount of delinquency and crime amongst the middle classes , but we are less likely to be made aware of it . |
| 8 | The marital status of most of the opioid users known to two drugs agencies were obtained : the Drugs Council , which attracted users seeking therapy and counselling , and the Detoxification Unit , which attracted users more likely to be seeking medical treatment . |
| 9 | The dressing staff was taken on " as required " and a good worker , lad or lass , was more likely to be given regular work . |
| 10 | Following the completion of the audit [ specify ] , we will carry out a review of the company , giving particular attention to those areas which are likely to be given close scrutiny during any due diligence procedure . |
| 11 | The former is likely to be using mechanism-based models with people as ancillaries while the ergonomist will be using models of people with mechanisms as ancillaries . |
| 12 | Thus , establishments with declining output , falling overtime and declining employment levels were less likely to use temporary workers or , more precisely , were less likely to be using fixed-term contract workers . |
| 13 | In line with what we had expected was the finding that establishments where the level of output , the amount of overtime being worked and the number of persons employed was falling were rather less likely to be using fixed-term contract workers . |
| 14 | Finally , as the advanced further education pool is virtually certain to be reduced , in relative terms , in the next few years and consequently the survival of some institutions may be at stake , NAB 's most difficult job is likely to be to steer public sector higher education through the stormy seas ahead with as little long-term damage as possible . |
| 15 | These checks are only justified if the person is likely to be handling large sums of money or to be exposed to the possibility of bribery . |
| 16 | The figures demonstrate something about the characteristics of people with dementia referred to psychogeriatricians : that they are on average around 80 years of age , mainly women , mainly widowed or single , quite likely to be living alone but not without the involvement of relatives or friends , and with fairly advanced dementia ( assuming that this is the implication of a score of nearly seven on a scale , running from one to ten , designed mainly to measure impairment of memory ) . |
| 17 | At all ages older women are more likely to be living alone than their male contemporaries ( Figure 2.10 ) . |
| 18 | Also , as a result of their greater longevity , elderly women are more than twice as likely as men to be widowed and , as a consequence of this and the lower propensity of the current generation ( if not succeeding ones ) to have married in the first place , they are three times as likely to be living alone . |
| 19 | Thirdly , although some data is collected in relation to gender , it would be helpful to see some interpretation of statements like these : Although ‘ women were more likely to be living alone than men , there were a number of very elderly men living on their own and some of them caused their carers great concern ’ . |
| 20 | Women earn less than men , have lower hourly rates of pay even in the same occupation , are more likely to be employed part-time or in homeworking , and are more vulnerable to unemployment . |
| 21 | Doctors say most people in Britain are likely to be drinking dirty tap water . |
| 22 | As expected , they are also less likely to own or to be buying their house , less likely to be living in council accommodation and more likely to be renting furnished accommodation . |
| 23 | Grandchildren do not appear on Qureshi and Simons 's ( 1987 ) hierarchy of preferred carers , indicating that they are very much a minority group subsumed under ‘ other relatives ’ and therefore much less likely to be providing personal care than their parents ' generation . |
| 24 | But one of the cost factors , particularly the amount of each instalment , is as likely to be rated important by people deciding to use hire purchase . |
| 25 | When the kite is removed from its bag , it is most likely to be folded short . |
| 26 | For that reason , the majority are likely to be studying technical or vocational subjects that equip them with more immediately useful skills . |
| 27 | The unison of flutes , oboes , clarinets , and violas is powerful and striking , but is more likely to be found appropriate in the full orchestra than in the small orchestra . |
| 28 | Michael Liley , the Association Director , has pointed out that important changes were in the offing , and it was important to know what was to happen as the change were likely to be found unpleasant in the trade . |
| 29 | Such reasons might include a governing body disregarding LEA advice that dismissal would be likely to be found unfair before an industrial tribunal : or a governing body determining payments to departing members of staff which were in excess of the LEA 's own practice . |
| 30 | The teenage girls and young women recorded in the CECOS Report were more likely to be doing industrial or domestic work . |