Example sentences of "is unlikely to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The future expansion of very large , mature businesses such as petrochemicals is unlikely to be spectacular . |
| 2 | In very simple models , the RRR can be seen to imply , or be implied by , the financial target , but because of the differing time periods , differing accounting conventions , the nature of existing capital stock , and so on , the relationship is unlikely to be straightforward in practice . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm afraid the answer is unlikely to be straightforward . |
| 4 | You can not use a parametric test because the size-frequency of the potential prey population is unlikely to be normal . |
| 5 | Unfortunately the most obvious solution is unlikely to be feasible — councils do not move tenants that easily . |
| 6 | If an innovation does not aim at leadership from the beginning , it is unlikely to be innovative enough . |
| 7 | Furthermore , the theory is unlikely to be comprehensive . |
| 8 | Bede 's statement that Chad was sent by Oswiu to the archbishop of Canterbury to be consecrated , only to find that Deusdedit had died ( HE 111 , 28 ) , is unlikely to be correct because Wilfrid had known that Deusdedit was dead when he was earlier seeking consecration as Ealhfrith 's bishop and the probability must be that Oswiu 's court would have known this too . |
| 9 | Although this increased risk is unlikely to be due to chance , the reasons for it are still unknown . |
| 10 | If the relationship is real the mechanisms are far from clear , except that the effect is unlikely to be due to external radiation ; the possibility that it could be due to internal contamination by radioactive substances or some other exposure at work should be pursued . |
| 11 | If the association between paternal preconceptual exposure to radiation and childhood leukaemia we found is not a chance finding , the effect is unlikely to be due to paternal exposure to the forms of external penetrating ionising radiation measured by monitoring devices . |
| 12 | This is unlikely to be due to changes in promoter activity since the H1° gene is not induced upon serum stimulation ( 7 ) . |
| 13 | Mr Watkins , a retired admiral , is unlikely to be upset by noisy environmentalists . |
| 14 | The recorded mileage is unlikely to be genuine . |
| 15 | It is unlikely to be easy for them to decide , on their working-class pupils ' behalf , that personal fulfilment derives solely from their inner selves and their environment , unrelated to questions of higher social status and improved working and leisure conditions . |
| 16 | It was not very successful , and reversing culturally well-established retirement practices is unlikely to be easy . |
| 17 | Total exclusion of liability for failure to perform a contract at all is unlikely to be reasonable where it occurs because of acts or omissions within the control of the party in default , which are caused by negligence , incompetence or inadvertence but not wilful default ( " inadvertent default " ) . |
| 18 | Limiting liability to a figure or the contract value whichever is the lower is unlikely to be reasonable . |
| 19 | In a case where defects are unlikely to be immediately apparent , a short time limit is unlikely to be reasonable . |
| 20 | Its incidence in the general population is not clearly established , but it is unlikely to be negligible . |
| 21 | These comments suggest that the test is unlikely to be useful as a screening instrument but , when used in conjunction with other tests or with children who have already been identified as having language difficulties , it may assist in the generation of a balanced assessment of a child 's strengths and weaknesses . |
| 22 | In the voting case , he may choose not to vote because he calculates that he is unlikely to be decisive ( i.e. , there will be a majority for one outcome independently of his vote ) . |
| 23 | The aircraft is in very poor condition and is unlikely to be capable of a full restoration . |
| 24 | Anticipating the detail of the National Curriculum and assessment arrangements is unlikely to be helpful , as Circular 5/89 revealingly points out . |
| 25 | meditation is extremely helpful ; 2. meditation is extremely helpful for many people , even though it is not for me ; 3. meditation can be helpful , even though it often is not ; 4. meditation is unlikely to be helpful , even though there are exceptions ; 5 . |
| 26 | Health education is an important aspect of prevention but that is unlikely to be effective in the absence of increased safety measures and legislation . |
| 27 | Too one-sided a pitch , appealing exclusively to intellect or emotions , is unlikely to be effective . |
| 28 | But this alone is unlikely to be effective in many cases where underlying psychogenic factors are the root cause of the problem . |
| 29 | But this doctrine of matching policy instruments to policy variables is unlikely to be effective in all cases : for example , a desire for strategic reasons to protect a domestic defence industry from foreign takeovers , or a desire to maintain a diversity of ownership in the newspaper industry . |
| 30 | If a rapid haemodynamically unstable ventricular arrhythmia is induced , or the clinical arrhythmia is induced more easily , then amiodarone therapy is unlikely to be effective and an ICD should be inserted . |