Example sentences of "likely [to-vb] been [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the magnetic resonance imaging studies subjects who showed the more severe white matter changes had worse recent phenylalanine control and were more likely to have been on a normal diet without protein substitute for longer ( A J Thompson , I Smith , D P Brenton , personal communication ) . |
| 2 | So all of those people there or most of them are likely to have been on a list that the school have recommended . |
| 3 | Not many children are likely to have been to a circus ; but although they 're not as glamorous or as attractive as they once were , they still hold a fascination for children . |
| 4 | Plants like these are very likely to have been among the earliest forms to colonise the moist margins of the land , but so far no fossil relics of undoubted mosses have been discovered from this early period . |
| 5 | ‘ The poison is n't too likely to have been in a quail , ’ Rose said soothingly . |
| 6 | To discover how cost-effective it was to sustain at home people who were judged likely to have been in an institution had it not been for the project 's services . |
| 7 | Therefore , the date of the Gospel is likely to have been in the decade 60–70 AD . |
| 8 | Thirdly , it is often impossible to tell from the inventory whether a person was poor or whether he was living in comfortable retirement , having already passed on most of his estate to his children ; a yeoman with very few possessions is likely to have been in the latter category . |