Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] be [v-ing] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The biggest bombs , though , land with a considerable wallop , and are quite as unpleasant to be standing beneath as any military weapon , and they can be a good deal larger . |
| 2 | I mean , is this supposed to be happening tonight or |
| 3 | Thus , the achievements of white working class pupils — children whose parents are manual workers — are much closer to those of Afro-Caribbean pupils , and it is arguable that the findings of Rampton , Swann and similar investigations can be explained by the fact that a larger proportion of Afro-Caribbeans than whites are working class , and are likely to be earning less and living in worse housing than whites , as documented earlier in this chapter ( Brown , 1984 ; Reeves and Chevannes , 1981 ) . |
| 4 | People who had gone overseas had probably made a wise choice and were likely to be doing better than they could have done at home , so the government felt it had done enough for them already . |
| 5 | At 19 these young people — and hundreds like them all over the country — are likely to be going home and staying there . |
| 6 | Will my hon. Friend pass to the National Audit Office the thanks of Parliament for its series of reports and ask whether it would be possible for us to have them at a time when Parliament is likely to be sitting rather than at one minute to midnight for the benefit of the press ? |
| 7 | After all Batty is not likely to be scoring much and he is great at ball-winning . |
| 8 | She knew he was feeling ridiculous to be running away and cross not to have achieved it . |