Example sentences of "it [be] [adv] likely that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's not likely that you will see them , for who would be foolish enough to be laughing before your eyes ? |
| 2 | It 's not likely that they 'll fall entirely from grace , and this is n't meant to be a sob story of any sort . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's not likely that many will ever be acquired in this , or any other country and it 's unlikely that the catfish would ever be very popular with fishkeepers . ’ |
| 4 | Although it 's not likely that the action will publicly required |
| 5 | a bit more resigned , there 's another , there 's another sort of erm possibility , I mean if they sold their house quickly of course then , you know they 'd come down here obviously and they 'd try and look for something , but it 's not likely that they 'd sell their house that quickly |
| 6 | And in any case , it 's most likely that it was a completely misleading headline in the press . |
| 7 | The Tour may now display a hero , but it 's also likely that this long and complicated race shelters a secret . |
| 8 | If there 's a supply side shock , erm , if we take bad weather in say the northern hemisphere , that 's going to affect prices , but because there are some producers who sell on the world market who come from the southern hemisphere , right , perhaps , there 's good weather in the southern hemisphere , and that 's , because there 's a larger geographical area over which erm , production is spread , it 's less likely that we , we 're going to see major fluctuations in supply right , and as a result it 's less likely that we 're going to see major fluctuations in price . |
| 9 | If there 's a supply side shock , erm , if we take bad weather in say the northern hemisphere , that 's going to affect prices , but because there are some producers who sell on the world market who come from the southern hemisphere , right , perhaps , there 's good weather in the southern hemisphere , and that 's , because there 's a larger geographical area over which erm , production is spread , it 's less likely that we , we 're going to see major fluctuations in supply right , and as a result it 's less likely that we 're going to see major fluctuations in price . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's quite likely that for every case of reported illness there are ten to a hundred more , ’ said Jim Curran , the AIDS task force chairman at the CCD , who was seconded to the job for three months in 1981 and is now permanent The incubation period is unusually long — possibly as much as three years . |
| 11 | It 's quite likely that the professor 's first sound was Pinder closing his own door . |
| 12 | The effects may not seem to have anything to do with the work , but if disunity and depression occur it 's quite likely that there is an unseen cause . |
| 13 | And it 's quite likely that we never will . |
| 14 | Since very small , light animals can fall a long way without being hurt , it 's quite likely that it survived in the forest world under the tree and had the second most interesting experience any tree frog has ever had . |
| 15 | Elizabeth Broun , Director of the NMAA , warns , ‘ It 's quite likely that no one remembers how the sculptures got there or who 's responsible for them ’ . |
| 16 | Most of the ninety two naturally occurring elements , that 's leaving aside the , the elements that have been created artificially in particle accelerators and things , have been found in sea water and it 's quite likely that those that have n't yet been recorded from sea water will be recorded as our analeti er as our analytical techniques get better . |
| 17 | calcium hydroxide hydrogen chloride you get calcium chloride formed and you got this thing well it 's quite likely that this does form initially , but it does n't last very long and it 's not very stable and it |
| 18 | Where it 's two males , male applicant and a male interviewer , and the prospective employee has a less prestigious accent than the interviewer , so it 's quite likely that the prospective employee would shift his accent towards a more that of the employer , due to his relative need of approval so much more than vice versa . |
| 19 | It 's quite likely that the screws holding the brackets will have rusted in place . |
| 20 | Well , his theory was that this guy was a writer or something , a historian or somebody like that , and Freud said it 's quite likely that in the past he had had either dreams about a similar dream or conscious fantasies about how he would have felt if he 'd been in the French Revolution and what might have happened to him . |
| 21 | Manufactured goods tend to have income elasticities greater than one , so when we buy more of those , then it 's quite likely that we 'll actually be erm , importing more of those . |
| 22 | Right , what we 're now going to do is incorporate that dummy variable as the regressor in our model as an explanatory variable , so what 's going to happen is that that dummy variable is turned off , alright in the first part of the sample right up until the war that dummy variable 's going to be off , right so it has a value of zero , right , then in nineteen forty through to nineteen forty five it 's switched on and what it 's going to do is to pick up any differential effects , right , in the intercept between wartime and peacetime right , we 'll talk a little bit more , more about that in a second , we 're going to add it in as a regressor , right , because it only comes on during the wartime it will pick up any shift in the intercept , right , that occurs due to the war if there is one , of course there may not be but it 's quite likely that there , there may well be , so if you type Q to come out of the data processing environment , go back to the action menu and test estimate forecast okay at the dialog box just add D one to your list of explanatory variables , alright then press the end key , right , yeah we 're gon na use the full sample right , we gon na use O L S , right you have now estimated the model with this dummy variable now just to see what 's happened to those coefficients the er incoming elasticity was at nought point six is now doubled right to one point one four more importantly , right , its T ratio has jumped from one point eight five right to six point eight , as a result , we now say that the incoming elasticity , the income coefficients , right , the significant zero , it 's important to explain the textiles as such the er , we are now getting a very different estimate for our |
| 23 | Yeah the main difficulty is in is in the time period because it 's it 's quite likely that I mean I 'd we 'd been we 'd been hoping that the target candidate could put in a reasonable amount of personal commitment to the campaign . |
| 24 | Some kind of social democracy in Russia , erm on the other hand in central Asia as for example , I think it 's quite likely that former communists , although they may disavow their former allegiance , will in practice take over as national communist parties and continue to run their economies , well there will be private economies but with a large state sector and run on a pretty tight reign . |
| 25 | Now it 's quite likely that next time I come we can spend quite a bit of time doing this same thing again yeah cos there 's a lot in it there 's angles using a protractor adding things up to check they come to the total that the angles come to three sixty and there 's this thing about fractions there 's cancelling fractions and then there 's working with quite big numbers three hundred and sixty what 's two fifteenths of three hundred and sixty mm that 's quite hard . |
| 26 | People have been very generous in the parish and the village , obviously they think a lot of their church , but one suggestion that was put forward was if every man , woman and child gave the equivalent of twelve pounds to the fund then it would be raised easily , and I think that it 's quite likely that people will come forward er in a generous way I 'm sure . |
| 27 | Increased dot resolution is an area of great interest , it 's highly likely that Apple will move to the 406dpi standard before the end of the year . |
| 28 | It 's hardly likely that the people in charge would want to share the fate of this unfortunate planet . |
| 29 | Remember , it 's more likely that youngsters may turn to drugs if they come from a home where the adults appear to be dependent on legal drugs like tobacco or alcohol . |
| 30 | Rumours have been circulating that they wanted to hold it to tie in with Aliens 3 , although with that still way off in the future , it 's more likely that a full-scale theatrical release of The Special Edition is planned for the distant future . |