Example sentences of "likely to be as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is nothing more annoying to older people , for their need and desire to communicate , at an adult level , is likely to be as strong as ever . |
| 2 | But none of these factors is likely to be as potent an influence upon future relationships as the early family experiences absorbed by the young child . |
| 3 | ‘ He is not — nor is he likely to be as far as I can make out — although Matt dropped a hint that there had been someone at one stage . |
| 4 | The challenges facing nurses in the 1990s are likely to be as great as any the profession has ever faced . |
| 5 | In that sense , their political attractiveness is not likely to be as great as that of present policies which emphasize training , selecting and matching , and which address themselves to the individual qualities and characteristics of the teachers themselves . |
| 6 | One interpretation must be that voluntary work is viewed as rather less significant , in the sense that some old person doing a little forest conservation is less likely to be as dangerous as the ancient quack prescribing cupping or the antiquated magistrate consigning culprits to the stocks . |
| 7 | As Malinowski 's own posthumously published field diaries record , this cross-cultural experience , involving a massive exposure to what we nowadays call ‘ culture-shock ’ , is likely to be as gruelling psychologically as it is physically . |
| 8 | This needs materials scientists , whose contribution is likely to be as decisive for biosensor research as it has been for mainstream biomaterials research . |
| 9 | This man was obviously considerably older than herself , and most of the women he knew would be likely to be as sophisticated and worldy-wise as himself . |
| 10 | Certainly experience helps children in the formation and shaping of concepts but unguarded free activity is likely to be as unrewarding in the long term as a learning programme which never departs from a prepared text book . |
| 11 | In my review last year I said that 1992 was likely to be as difficult a year as 1991 for our North America Homes businesses . |
| 12 | In 1992-93 , Trainload Freight expected to carry 18.35 million tonnes of freight for PowerGen , but that figure is now likely to be as high as 19.6 million tonnes . |
| 13 | Still , it should be pointed out that the average Soviet citizen 's contact with the courts was likely to be as unpolitical as that of his or her Western counterpart , and he or she was no more likely to be dealt with unjustly in the run-of-the-mill case ( Lane , 1985 , pp. 192–7 ) . |
| 14 | The deal looks likely to be as sweet for KKR 's investors as for Fleet/Norstar . |
| 15 | The likely profit for most individuals is likely to be as large as a percentage point or two in the wage settlement made by their unions , or offered by their employer . |
| 16 | At the same time , academic researchers are likely to be as impatient as anyone else with solutions that require extensive specialist knowledge of little relevance to the problem in hand . |