Example sentences of "[adv] [ex0] [be] [adj] [prep] [be] " in BNC.

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1 For a more permanent path , where perhaps there is likely to be heavy foot traffic , slabs can be laid on large blobs of mortar .
2 The markets for the major index futures and the shares included in such an index are usually highly liquid , and so there is likely to be little adverse price movement for all but the largest arbitrage transactions .
3 So there is liable to be a very different result according to whether a recall test is carried out within 24 hours , or a week , or three months , of an ad appearing : and ‘ pre-tests ’ , based on showing an ad to consumers before it appears , and finding out what they remember of it within minutes , can be almost totally irrelevant — except as an indication of intelligibility .
4 The indexer has access to schedules that the searcher in general does not have available online or even in printed form ; thus there is likely to be a mismatch between the indexers ' and searchers ' perspectives .
5 ‘ Clients have to be — and are — aware that I 've got a young family and that if they ring me after 5pm there are likely to be children screaming for their tea in the background . ’
6 We have no quibble with the actual staff involved in running resources , but operationally there are certain to be differences between what BBC Scotland regards as priorities , and what London sees as theirs . ’
7 If you leave too many fry then there are likely to be losses , as they will scrap among themselves .
8 It believes that unless the final COSE specification is very tight , and goes right down to things like icons and bars , then there is certain to be a wide variety of very different COSE interfaces on the market .
9 It believes that unless the final COSE specification is very tight , and goes right down to things such as icons and bars , then there is certain to be a wide variety of very different COSE interfaces on the market .
10 If , for example , language is used to establish a context of shared knowledge rather than to identify aspects of a pre-existing one , then there is likely to be a higher degree of explicit lexical reference and so a higher proportion of full words .
11 Whiskers sometimes grow by accident from the surface of metals and if the metal happens to be part of an electrical device then there is likely to be a short circuit which will be annoying , expensive or dangerous according to the circumstances ( Plate 9 ) .
12 Put simply , if there is a good reason for HIV antibody testing then there is likely to be a good reason to examine for other sexually transmitted diseases .
13 ‘ … and then there 's supposed to be an interview in Atticus in The Sunday Times tomorrow . ’
14 Answer guide : Once again there is likely to be a future benefit to the business therefore we have a business asset .
15 Yet there is unlikely to be much dancing in the streets .
16 Yet there are unlikely to be many governors or bodies of parents who would disapprove of the more or less traditional approach of putting class teachers first , and there would be few who would persist in wanting the headteacher 's draft management plan — his or her daily manner of organizing and managing the school — to be changed as the result of open and equal argument between staff of all categories .
17 On the other hand , from the forties onwards there is likely to be greater stability in the sense that individuals are more settled in their jobs and ambitions and are supported by less rapidly changing domestic and leisure situations .
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