Example sentences of "[am/are] [adj] [prep] be [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's a business move and I am sorry to be leaving French rugby as it has been going well , ’ said Andrew . |
| 2 | If you 're likely to be tackling full-scale plumbing installation work rather than just mending the occasional dripping tap , it will pay you to collect some specialist hand tools . |
| 3 | Practical guidelines are likely to be made available to health managers , but there will be no helpline number . |
| 4 | Furthermore , the military 's data banks , which contain information on ocean temperatures and currents , weather patterns and changes in vegetation in many regions of the world , are likely to be made available to environmental researchers . |
| 5 | About half the 6,000 white collar workers are likely to be made redundant in response to the shrinking market for coal . |
| 6 | Following the completion of the audit [ specify ] , we will carry out a review of the company , giving particular attention to those areas which are likely to be given close scrutiny during any due diligence procedure . |
| 7 | Doctors say most people in Britain are likely to be drinking dirty tap water . |
| 8 | For that reason , the majority are likely to be studying technical or vocational subjects that equip them with more immediately useful skills . |
| 9 | By this time in the season your apples are likely to be showing advanced signs of scab ( Venturia inaequalis ) . |
| 10 | Yet another way in which not having a bank account makes people more likely to fall into the non-chooser group , the automatic users of one or other type of credit , is that people without bank accounts are likely to be paid weekly , in cash . |
| 11 | In this sense collective bargaining is not only confined to formalised , written agreements between trade unions and employers ' bodies , it can also include informal , collective dealings and negotiations at local level , both on wage and non-wage issues , between managements and works councils or similar bodies in countries like Austria and West Germany , even though in the latter country collective bargaining and the co-determination mechanisms are supposed to be kept separate . |
| 12 | Host : Domestic dog and wild carnivores Site : Lung parenchyma Species : Filaroides milksi F. hirthi Distribution : North America , Europe and Japan The worms are very small , slender , hair-like and greyish , and are not only difficult to see with the naked eye in the lung parenchyma , but are unlikely to be recovered intact from the tissue . |
| 13 | Unlike most of the sights before , you are unlikely to be standing alone and I noticed that other visitors wandered round in disbelieving silence . |
| 14 | And while established first team players like Kevin Scott and Gavin Peacock are certain to be offered new deals , the new Newcastle boss is already preparing to be ruthless . |