Example sentences of "[prep] they [be] [adj] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leftists and Republicans were therefore entitled to feel that whether the right as a whole , or merely one element of it , achieved power , the consequences for them were likely to be more or less equally unpleasant . |
| 2 | Conversation with Alexei had been limited for the past day to standard matters of duty , and since he had not been able to think of anything which he could say to change his son 's attitude , he had allowed himself to accept that the state of affairs which existed between them was likely to be permanent . |
| 3 | If we return to the example of our widget-making factory after the introduction of the new production process , with half its workforce put on to the labour market ( or , putting it more bluntly , sacked ) , then many of them are likely to be eligible for unemployment benefit . |
| 4 | Not to imitate it , of course , but to gauge whether any of them are likely to be interested in the kind of work you write . |
| 5 | With most major life events , it is likely to be very difficult both to identify people who have recently experienced an event and find out which of them are likely to be susceptible to psychiatric disorder as a consequence . |
| 6 | It is not known exactly where the birds end up , although some of them are likely to be eaten as game by African farmers . |
| 7 | If there are , for example , 11,000 accident repairers in the UK , most of them are likely to be small ; one-man operations or not much bigger . |
| 8 | Thirty per cent of them are unfit to be used for education . |
| 9 | A prime mover of Art Nouveau was A. H. Mackmurdo , but so were many famous artists — from Aubrey Beardsley , book illustrator , to Henri Guimard , designer of Paris Métro stations ; from the glassware of Louis Conford Tiffany to the architecture of Antoni Gaudi and early Frank Lloyd Wright — that any list of them is likely to be incomplete . |
| 10 | All the pair of them were concerned about was getting back to Northallerton . |
| 11 | Charlie might have quite enjoyed the lesson if Trentham had n't left the impression that none of them was worthy of being in the same regiment as himself . |
| 12 | Keith Weare , spokesman for the Electricity Association , said : ‘ We have featured loads of animals and none of them was supposed to be identified with people . |