Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun] [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Orders placed during August are unlikely to be supplied in time for the start of the Session on . |
| 2 | However , other services geared to improve the quality of life for the elderly or those newly discharged from hospital were unlikely to be funded . |
| 3 | For over a century any non-Spaniards who entered the area claimed by Spain were likely to be called pirates . |
| 4 | Children picked by paedophiles were likely to be reabused or become abusers themselves . |
| 5 | The par yield is therefore equal to the coupon rate for bonds priced at or near par ( since the YTM for bonds priced at par is equal to the coupon rate ) . |
| 6 | ‘ The decision made by UEFA is contrary to all principles of law . |
| 7 | Entry to or use of Car Parks operated by BCP is subject to the current terms and conditions of the Terminus Securities Group . |
| 8 | The methods used for trigrams are analogous to those in the bigram case except that the transitions are of length 3 . |
| 9 | Large areas of still water used for recreation are likely to be routinely closed in the summer months , just at the point of maximum use , in order to protect the public from toxic poisoning . |
| 10 | ‘ Cars produced in Europe are supposed to be European cars ’ , Mr Frans Andriessen , the EC 's External Relations Commissioner said . |
| 11 | However , electrons ejected from solids are likely to be captured by the surrounding matter , unless the distance to the surface is very small . |
| 12 | The belief that these premises are founded on truth is essential to the conception of an understanding of the word ‘ god ’ that does not demand blind faith flying in the concept of the Created God accepts the truth of them without question . |
| 13 | Most of the functions attributed to rises are nearer to grammatical than attitudinal , as in the first three examples given below ; they are included here mainly to give a fuller picture of intonational function . |
| 14 | ‘ I must thank you for all this and giving me food in the week and I 'm sorry for what I said , it 's just that I 'm not used to people being nice to me . |
| 15 | According to observers , the compromise agreed at Houston was acceptable to the EC countries because it recognized the special nature of EC farming as mainly family based ( rather than corporate-based as in the USA ) , while the USA could be satisfied because the agreement spelled out what kinds of subsidies should be reduced . |
| 16 | Patrassi et al postulated that the enhanced fibrinolysis in ascites induced by alcohol was due to increased release of tissue plasminogen activator from the mesothelium , and Wilde et al were able to quench this fibrinolytic activity with the addition to the ascites of antibody to tissue plasminogen activator . |
| 17 | Our discussion has shown that so long as the resources used by producers are accessible to all , all their activities are entrepreneurial-competitive . |
| 18 | Hence ( vi ) to say , as Wittgenstein does , that the first person utterance is not verified by observation is tantamount to saying that it has no truth-value . |
| 19 | The 1,000 tonne consignment of chloro-benzene contaminated with dioxin was due to be transported from a pesticide plant in Hamburg to an incinerator in Pontypool , Wales . |
| 20 | Drug-users sharing needles contaminated with HIV are likely to be infected within less than five years if they inject once a week , and within three months if injecting 20 times a week . |
| 21 | The anticipated value used in Section 11.3 and based on penalties is unlikely to be very close to . |
| 22 | The agreement was based on the famous — some would say infamous-five principles : unimpeded progress to majority rule ( already enshrined in the 1961 Constitution ) had to be maintained and guaranteed ; there would have to be guarantees against retrogressive amendment of the Constitution ; there would need to be immediate improvement in the political status of the black population ; there would have to be progress towards ending racial discrimination ; and the British government would need to be satisfied that any basis proposed for independence was acceptable to the people of Rhodesia as a whole . |
| 23 | It has to be experienced through people being able to be honest with themselves and reaching towards integrity . |
| 24 | So , in Danger Rock , the practical knowledge of small ships and heavy seas belonging to the sailor known as Shelty is available to the apprentice of eighteen , Jim Naylor , who for his part rises to the challenge of danger ( when he and his fellow apprentices land on an uninhabited island off the Newfoundland coast after their ship has been holed by ice ) because he has been trained with command in mind . |
| 25 | But even the most well known of places is unknown to each traveller new to it . |
| 26 | I have argued that company law in its attempt to establish the legitimacy of corporate managerial power has been concerned also to show that the power conferred on managers is subject to controls which prevent it from being used arbitrarily . |
| 27 | The mental barriers encountered regarding suspension are similar to those found even today about the need for embalming . |
| 28 | The immediate application of this engine was in pumping water out of mine workings , which had often become so badly flooded that it was impossible for them to be worked , and pumps driven by waterwheels were unequal to the huge drainage problems . |
| 29 | The magnitude of the enteroglucagon response elicited by deoxycholate was similar to that reported for a test breakfast , measured using the same assay system . |
| 30 | Pressure from Bruce Millan , EC regional commissioner , has resulted in the Treasury reluctantly accepting that the funds provided by Brussels are additional to government spending rather than part of it and should be steered to specific projects rather than forming part of the spending pool . |