Example sentences of "is [adv] unlikely that he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nixon 's ambitions were to crash on the rock of Watergate , but even without that disaster it is most unlikely that he would have come even close to fulfilling his mandate , In that , he would not , by any means , have been alone . |
| 2 | It was crucial to his remarkable success in winning the nomination of his party ; without that asset it is most unlikely that he would have secured his narrow victory over Gerald Ford , but it was his insistence on remaining an outsider in spirit that limited his accomplishments in office . |
| 3 | It is most unlikely that he will see any reason of that kind . |
| 4 | It is highly unlikely that he envisaged anything more than joint diplomatic pressure on Russia which would bring Nicholas to the conference table to discuss the problems at issue , which explains why he used as a pretext the totally ridiculous question of the keys to the Holy places in Jerusalem , whose custody was disputed between the Latin Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches . |
| 5 | Waterloo Boy , placed for the third year in succession , was three-and-a-half lengths adrift in third , and it is highly unlikely that he can reverse the form . |
| 6 | It is highly unlikely that he himself travelled to Muscovy and Guinea , as a later epitaph alleged ( though he had an elephant 's head displayed as a curiosity in his house ) , but he was certainly one of the richest and most prominent of overseas merchants in early Tudor London . |
| 7 | He evidently led musicians on with false promises : a long letter from the cellist Carlo Graziani details amounts owing and favours not forthcoming ( Giardini seems to have promised him a place in the Queen 's Band , though it is highly unlikely that he would have had such influence ) . |
| 8 | Wordsworth 's ‘ swing to the Left ’ may be regarded as part of a general sympathy on the part of English intellectuals towards the French Revolution , and it is extremely unlikely that he was ever regarded as a leader of opinion . |
| 9 | It is not unlikely that he was the same man as Barates the Palmyrene whose wife Regina was buried at South Shields ; a Catuvellaunian by birth , she was at first his slave before he freed and married her . |
| 10 | Indeed , it is not unlikely that he at some point faced armed resistance in the Fens , as the Liber Eliensis mentions a siege of Ely . |