Example sentences of "likely [prep] be [adv] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As part of the investigation into attitudes to mass electricity , the project explores the reception by the public of plans for a National Grid and looks at the way in which this programme was presented to those most likely to be environmentally and economically affected by its construction . |
| 2 | Leftists and Republicans were therefore entitled to feel that whether the right as a whole , or merely one element of it , achieved power , the consequences for them were likely to be more or less equally unpleasant . |
| 3 | Not long , I think , now that internal revolution , disruption and secession , external interference , aggression and absorption are likely to be more and more the fate of these often unstable and highly artificial British ex-dominions . |
| 4 | However , the response of governments is likely to be more and more dogmatic , and be driven by considerations of ‘ security ’ ; there will be little willingness by those in power to defer to differing views even when these are held by a majority . |
| 5 | This implied a division of labour between manufacturing in the UK , and raw material and food production in the colonies , a doctrine which the Colonial Office broadly accepted , in line with its lack of sympathy with colonial industrialization as likely to be socially and politically disruptive . |
| 6 | As more projects are initiated , they are likely to be less and less profitable , with lower expected yearly returns , and therefore lower MEIs . |