Example sentences of "[is] [adj] to be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is supposed to be the boring part of the journey and if the train were on time would be crossed at night . |
| 2 | The Soviets : on Gen Keightley 's right flank , Macmillan goes on : " Marshal Tolbukhin 's armies have spread out into what is supposed to be the British Zone in Austria , including the important city and road centre of Graz . |
| 3 | Their main preoccupation is licking and grooming themselves and their most vigorous activity is likely to be the languorous stretching of tired limbs . |
| 4 | What is likely to be the major impact of organizational size on the information needs of managers ? |
| 5 | The marketing expert in the company is likely to be the key person as regards any advertising because his influence and , sometimes , his authority , extends over the sales department , research department , promotion , advertising and public relations . |
| 6 | The finding in this study that gastrin mediated acid secretion is so appreciably increased ( sixfold ) in duodenal ulcer patients compared with true normal subjects ( H pylori negative healthy volunteers ) implies that it is likely to be the key factor in the pathophysiology of duodenal ulcer disease . |
| 7 | This would take the steam out of the refugee crisis and help us on towards the relaxed and variegated community of states across Europe as a whole which is likely to be the real guarantee of security . |
| 8 | If you are newcomer to spreadsheets then you may find Excel easier to deal with but if you are an experienced 123 user then the latest version from Lotus is likely to be the only choice . |
| 9 | In the rest of the country it is likely to be the Environmental Health Officer , unless someone dies in a council residential home , in which case the County Social Services Department will organise the funeral . |
| 10 | The significant electoral battleground in the future is likely to be the middle class or non-manual working class , simply because of its size . |
| 11 | Between the two there is a grey area where the size of the firm is likely to be the determining factor as to whether decisions should be unanimous or taken by majority vote . |
| 12 | The initial puzzles seem pretty straightforward , and would allow the game to be ‘ adult supervised ’ for the youngsters , although the computer hardened eleven/twelve year old would probably handle it — with the occasional flash of totally brilliant parental genius ( in reality of course it is likely to be the other way round ! ) . |
| 13 | The only other opportunity in the foreseeable future is likely to be the new light railway in London 's Docklands . |
| 14 | The process of alignment between the two approaches is likely to be the crucial industrial relations issue of this decade and the purpose of this project is to track and interpret developments along this critical fissure . |
| 15 | These however are directives as to what is likely to be the right action ; the actually right action is that which will actually , not merely probably , have the best consequences . |
| 16 | THE main focus of British angst at the Strasbourg Summit is likely to be the Social Charter . |
| 17 | For most people their only experience of the law in action is likely to be the local magistrates court . |
| 18 | Initially , while the UK catches up with countries such as Canada [ there are 30 filling stations in Toronto alone ] it is likely to be the depot-based high mileage fleets that will be the first to benefit from NGV technology . |
| 19 | In other words , the rare hurricane is likely to be the main agent recorded in the stratigraphical column of certain parts of the world , even in our present climatic set-up . |
| 20 | At any point in time a shortage of either labour or markets is likely to be the dominant factor constraining accumulation at the existing real wage level . |
| 21 | One of the biggest issues is likely to be the running down of the coal industry which has resulted in the recent closure of Dawdon and Murton collieries , near Seaham , with the loss of hundreds of jobs . |
| 22 | The nearest a Palestinian in Lebanon can go to his former family home in what is now Israel is likely to be the orange orchards south of Tyre or the east bank of the Jordan river . |
| 23 | The basis for all these conclusions seems to be that because there are bad comprehensive schools the system must be abandoned ( and if this is not the intention it is likely to be the secondary education for all , which led to the establishment of comprehensive schools in the first place , has , it seems , to be given up in favour of ‘ good ’ education for some and ‘ bad ’ for others , the ‘ good ’ now being variously identified with the rigorous , the vocational , and the wealth-producing . |
| 24 | He 's supposed to be he 's supposed to be the real expert for those . |
| 25 | Every year people come from all over the World to see Kronborg castle at Helsingør because it 's supposed to be the famous Elsinore where Hamlet met his doom . ’ |
| 26 | It 's supposed to be the other way around . ’ |
| 27 | She took a quick peep at the kettle , then went on : ‘ Some of our group even went to America , that 's supposed to be the important place to be . |
| 28 | That 's supposed to be the edited version ! |
| 29 | ‘ Cruach en Mehr , Matin , Belle Ile en Mer ’ ( oil on canvas , 60.4x73.5cm ) , by John Peter Russell , exhibited at the Salon d'Automne in 1905 , is sure to be the top lot in this sale of Australian pictures . |
| 30 | Accepting the authority or leadership of a person or an institution is , for example , a way of defining one 's own identity as a member of a nation or some other group , though needless to say it is unlikely to be the only way any person will express his identification with such a group . |