The phrase "likely to break down" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe a potential outcome or possibility that something may stop working or functioning properly. Example: "The old car is likely to break down if we try to drive it on a long trip."
The U.S. water scarcity problem is being felt most acutely in the West, where reservoirs have been almost empty and lush agricultural areas are turning to dust, but dangers also lurk elsewhere, in antiquated water systems that are increasingly likely to break down or spread contaminants like lead.
Future decisions are likely to break down on partisan lines.
Otherwise, both are likely to break down at some point.
It sweetens the flavor, improves the texture and makes the caviar less likely to break down and become soupy.
As technologies and organizations get more complicated, Perrow argued, they are more likely to break down, even in the absence of malice or intentional neglect.
A trusted insider is more likely to break down the barriers to change in this small country than an outsider would be.
The more high-tech features an appliance has, the more likely it is to break down, he said, and the harder it is to repair.
Believing that "prolonged strain, immobility and helplessness" were more likely to cause men to "break down" than "the sudden shocks or bizarre horrors" that his patients themselves used to explain their condition, for instance, he muses that this must also explain the prevalence of "hysterical disorders" in women in peacetime.
If you look at the 18 months I'd had leading up to the end of the season it was probably likely something was going to break down at some point.
If the substrate protein contains many sites, removal of one site (e.g. due to adverse mutations) is less likely to cause its function to break down, i.e. the system can tolerate better perturbations.
"This system is a single, elegant virus that can be injected anywhere in the brain, which makes it technically easier and less likely for moving bells and whistles to break down," he adds, "and their behavioral equipment was cleverly designed to contain magnets where appropriate so that the animals could be freely moving around".
