1. No final decision has been taken , but it seems likely that the two companies could merge in the near future.

2. It seems likely that General Rogers was the killer's intended victim.

3. It seems likely that he will miss Ireland's next match.

4. On his present form it seems likely that he will win the match.

5. But it seems likely that influences other than faster scrapping also contributed to the decline in the measured ratio of output to capital.

6. Overall it seems likely that the existence, speed and intensity-correlated behaviour of QPOs in AGNs will provide severe constraints on models.

7. So, although predicting is risky, it seems likely that the special learner population will expand and pressures thereby will accelerate.

8. Yet it seems likely that resources would actually be better used in other prevention programmes.

9. It seems likely that they achieve this by integration of the viral genes next to the cellular copy of a cancer gene.

10. It seems likely that two separate parties will emerge in its place.

11. Thus, it seems likely that some women, for various reasons, have more trouble premenstrually than others.

12. And it seems likely that attempts to contain AIDS transmission that ignore this principle will fail as well.

13. It seems likely that said person has committed similar offenses in the past.

14. At present it seems likely that the most hopeful approaches rest in three areas.

15. In any event it seems likely that language is a relatively recent development in the human species.

16. In fact it seems likely that mountain goats are very successful at avoiding all these predators.

17. It seems likely that the absence of antigens on the cells in the foetus helps that process.

18. If the government does lose the showdown(), it seems likely that John Major will call a confidence vote 24 hours later.

19. It seems likely that they will release the hostages soon.

20. It seems likely that there is a similar under recording of alcoholic liver disease in the United Kingdom as a whole.

21. This is no accident; it seems likely that it results from a deliberate policy decision taken somewhere on high.

22. Instead, it seems likely that voters choose on the basis of their experience, particularly of recent events.

23. From the information available it seems likely that the total winter population of the county now rarely exceeds 4,000 birds.

24. It seems likely that a considerable amount of valuable new research on pronunciation will grow out of the study of discourse.

25. It seems likely that a wider bridge would have more damage problems rather than fewer, and probably would have cost more as well, whether public or private funds were used.

26. Short of a big political turnaround, it seems likely that space will be increasingly contested—with satellites on the front-line.

27. In practice, it seems likely that the regulators would move quickly to waive the rules.

28. It seems likely that this year will see a re-run of last year's fight over the elementary-school budget.

29. It seems likely that the development of face preference reflects the development of infants' perceptional process and has important social meanings.

30. Two months later: The truth was never revealed, though it seems likely that Lothar suffered an injustice.

31. It seems likely that for return of a result set, the overhead of federation is more than compensated for by an apparent performance difference between the JDBC drivers.

32. It seems likely that resilience is based on past experience of mastery, of positive outcomes from transitions and from reinterpreting past events.

33. It seems likely that sXBL will become a key part of the next-generation World Wide Web.

34. It seems likely that a fresh attempt to list bluefin tuna will have to wait until the next CITES meeting in three years time.

35. The insula is associated with emotion, so it seems likely that this is the brain feeling good when it gets the joke–the "ha-ha" response.

36. However, it seems likely that pigs were the original host.