Example sentences of "[noun] [is] [adv] [adj] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore the aircraft is most likely to have been hit by heavy machine-gun fire , which , unless it hit a vital spot such as fuel tanks or engines , would not cause the immediate destruction of the aircraft , but could kill or disable the pilot . |
| 2 | The type of practice which the ordinary citizen is most likely to encounter is the partnership of between two and four solicitors , who will employ one assistant solicitor , one articled clerk ( trainee solicitor ) , two legal executives and seven clerical staff . |
| 3 | Such an accusation is hardly likely to have been invented by his enemies if he had not performed miracles . |
| 4 | Between humdrum research and showpiece research , what the humanities scholarly community is really anxious to see is work which is both ( a ) respected as an original scholarly contribution within its own discipline and ( b ) could clearly not have been done without a computer . |
| 5 | The inventor of the German action is not known but it was used in a square piano signed ‘ Gottfried Silbermann , fevr. 1749 ’ This piano is more likely to have been made by Johann Gottfried Silbermann ( 1722–63 ) rather than by his more famous uncle , Gottfried ( 1683–1753 ) . |
| 6 | Much energy has been devoted to trying to establish which version is more likely to have been Christopher Marlowe 's . |
| 7 | After the original grants to her supporters in the coup d'état of 1762 which placed her on the throne , Catherine made very few presents of this kind during the decade 1762–72 , when her dependence on noble support is usually supposed to have been at its height . |
| 8 | In the light of this Constantius is perhaps unlikely to have been in a position to destroy Wallia completely in 416 : Stilicho , who had been in a position at least as strong , had failed to destroy Alaric . |
| 9 | This hematite is most likely to have been formed during synkinematic circulation of moderate temperature ( 600°C ) magmatic fluids . |