Example sentences of "[conj] are [adj] [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ( iv ) other methods of obtaining the material have been , or are likely to be unsuccessful .
2 All postgraduate students in the Faculty of Medicine , whatever their course of study , who are , or are likely to be involved with patients must hold full or limited registration with the General Medical Council and must also be professionally insured .
3 If your application is made because you are ill or are likely to be ill on polling day you can have your application attested by a doctor , a suitably qualified nurse ( first level nurse trained in general nursing ) or a Christian Science practitioner .
4 Thus , the more documents that an indexing system is likely to embrace , the greater the number of index terms that are likely to be necessary for convenient retrieval ( given that the number of documents which constitute a scannable category does not vary ) .
5 In view of the consents that are likely to be necessary for the transfer of assets , there will almost certainly have to be such a period .
6 Helix destabilisation induced by d 3C A is almost certainly the result of a combination of effects and those that are likely to be significant include :
7 At the skilled end , people who have more experience , he 's done a lot to help erm companies give shares to their employees and companies that are prepared to be innovative erm there 's quite a lot in this erm for them .
8 The planned Intel Corp Pentium desktop machines will come in 60MHz and 66MHz configurations and are due to be available the end of the third quarter .
9 Every professional experimental researcher , in whatever field , has their own private list of fluky data , things that did n't happen quite in accord with expectations and are likely to be due to uncontrolled circumstances — such as the dirty test tube — rather than signalling a major discovery .
10 Five cosmids , which correspond to very strong signals , have been found positive for minisatellites or CpG rich trinucleotide repeats and are likely to be nonspecific .
11 They actively seek to expand their influence and would appear to be aiming to cover most of west London … the group can be expected to continue in their attempts to undermine the police , but are unlikely to be successful except in conditions of widespread disorder , general strike , etc , when they might have a potential for destabilisation . ’
12 Although Uzell reckons there are no real dominant players , he divides the competition into four main areas : computer vendors , such as IBM Corp and ICL , which he reckons have the geographical scope and financial muscle to deal with the global demands of systems integration projects , but are unlikely to be independent , are often too hardware-oriented and lack the relevant software expertise ; management consultancies , such as Arthur Andersen and Price Waterhouse , which he believes do have the necessary business knowledge , but generally lack implementation skills and have little experience of large-scale project management ; telecommunications suppliers , such as AT&T Co and France Telecom , which again he reckons are too hardware-oriented and short of software skills ; and software houses , such as Electronic Data Systems Corp and Cap Gemini Sogeti SA , which he recommends for their independence and expertise , but feels that few are international enough or have the necessary financial clout to handle large deals .
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