Example sentences of "is [adv] likely that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it is most likely that the Course will be completed by then but because they have to have their final papers in , the week or two before , it may be that they will be staying on to around that time . |
| 2 | In very serious cases , where it is highly likely that a series of medical reports will be necessary , the first report can be obtained from the treating surgeon . |
| 3 | It is highly likely that the decision of the governors of Altrincham Grammar School for Girls to suspend two Muslim girls who wished to wear head scarves to school for being in breach of school uniform rules would also have been unlawful . |
| 4 | It is highly likely that the new Committee , due to take up office at the end of the year , will make the appointment permanent , in which case Bonito Oliva will be responsible for the organisation of the 1995 centenary exhibition . |
| 5 | It is highly likely that the basic English common law rule ( that ownership can not be transferred from someone who has no title ) applies . |
| 6 | Of course it is highly likely that the corporate finance arm and the client will be contractually bound in any case , thus enabling us to dispense with the issue of whether an obligation of confidence is owed . |
| 7 | They are the people who can refer clients on to solicitors and it is highly likely that the ‘ Advisory Liaison Service ’ and the proposed liaison officers could have played a significant part in making and fostering those contacts . |
| 8 | He continued : ‘ It is highly likely that the Lossiemouth helicopter will be engaged in work in the Cairngorms , and HMS Gannet ( Prestwick ) helicopters in the Ben Nevis/Glencoe area , leaving no helicopters available . ’ |
| 9 | The power of the microcomputer , with its television screen , in affecting the classroom situation is such that it is less likely that a teacher can bend a unit away from its designer 's intentions towards his own style and purpose than is the case with printed material . |
| 10 | Product description must make clear the function of the product , using the appropriate British Standard term , so that it is less likely that the product will be used as a straightforward cleaning agent without the necessary controls . |
| 11 | It is hardly likely that a vicious thug will wait politely while we ring the police . |
| 12 | It is hardly likely that a local authority would grant permission for a development against which it had served an enforcement notice , but it could , of course , attach conditions ; and for the owner there is the usual right of appeal . |
| 13 | It is hardly likely that the candidate is going to say no ; and yes does not reveal anything . |
| 14 | It is hardly likely that the Holy Spirit would inspire those directions in his word , and then promptly break them with his deeds . |
| 15 | This is very similar to a conditional sale agreement , the essential difference being that the hirer has the option to purchase the goods and is not obliged to do so , However , having paid all the instalments on the Volvo truck , it is hardly likely that the haulage company would decide not to exercise this option . |
| 16 | It is nonetheless likely that an export licence will be denied , to give a British institution the chance of raising the necessary matching funds to purchase the picture , as the Cook panel has been in England since 1863 ( in the Cook family since 1868 ) and as Messrs MacGregor and Rosenberg ( Director of the National Gallery and Curator of Paintings at the Louvre , respectively ) would agree , one can not have too many Antonellos . |
| 17 | But it is more likely that a physical restraint influenced the swirling liquids — just as bad weather cyclones and hurricanes are anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise south of the equator of spinning planet Earth . |
| 18 | It is more likely that a valuation will not be required before , for instance , a later disposal of the asset by the transferee . |
| 19 | It is more likely that a letter to ‘ Anna Payne ’ will get a response than one simply to ‘ the personnel manager ’ . |
| 20 | It is more likely that a family will lie somewhere on the continuum between these positions in its behaviour patterns . |
| 21 | Indeed , it is more likely that a small child will attempt to command an adult than the other way around . |
| 22 | It is more likely that a kid will die than reach sexual maturity at three years old . |
| 23 | Since the working class is most affected by these constraints , it is more likely that a characteristically rural working class will develop than a distinctly rural middle class . |
| 24 | It is more likely that a high-level package will be identified initially , and then after some investigation this will be refined to one or more lower level packages . |
| 25 | It is more likely that a high-level package will be identified initially , and then after some investigation this will be refined to one or more lower level packages . |
| 26 | If the mother denigrates her husband , it is more likely that a boy will become particularly anxious ( Wolff , 1983b ) . |
| 27 | But if the British Barlow Clowes operation had been within the licensing net , it is more likely that the Department of Trade would have found out at a much earlier stage that Mr Peter Clowes was running a parallel offshore operation — first in Jersey and then in Gibraltar . |
| 28 | It may have been that Harvey enjoyed such seniority in the Church that in his case such deviation was permitted , but given that two or three other committed Free Presbyterians have been active in the Official Unionist Party ( in 1985 there were two Free Presbyterians in local government as Official Unionist councillors ) , it is more likely that the Church leadership was genuinely able to maintain some distance from Paisley 's politics . |
| 29 | Historians have found some manors where the local custom was for the widow to receive a half proportion , or even the whole , and yet in others apparently none — although in these cases it is more likely that the documentation is being misconstrued . |
| 30 | It is more likely that the types of crime committed by older people will be less noticed and less liable to be recorded in the criminal statistics . |