Which preposition to use with likelihood
There is no likelihood of a lunatic asylum in your case.
" Undoubtedly in these brief and abrupt but masterly touches, hints for the scenery of Manfred may be discerned, but I can perceive nothing in them which bears the least likelihood to their having influenced the conception of that sublime work.
[Footnote 6: 'to have proved a most royal soldier:'A soldier gives here his testimony to Hamlet's likelihood in the soldier's calling.
We are perfectly contented to form no opinion upon the subject; but if compelled to express one, we should say that this last supposition (which is no novelty) possessed decidedly more likelihood than any other.