Example sentences of "to [noun sg] be [adj] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What attracts a nurse or health visitor back to practice is likely to be a combination of intrinsic and extrinsic factors . |
| 2 | I find his thesis correct in general , but should like to add that the corruption which amounts to violence is likely to be suppressed in someone who has been trained to be a good little girl and can , as one of his own case histories demonstrates , express itself in other , less overt , terms . |
| 3 | His only real chance of coming to grief was that of being struck by a stray round-shot , an unlikely mishap , for they sank as soon as they landed . |
| 4 | So the greater the volatility of the underlying share , the greater the time value for any given term to maturity is likely to be . |
| 5 | The costs of going to court are likely to be higher than the value of the contract and the only beneficiaries are typically the lawyers . |
| 6 | On past evidence like the post office closures , changes to education are likely to be draconian . |
| 7 | Suffice it to say here that a payment which is large in relation to salary is unlikely to be viewed as falling within the first category . |
| 8 | A drop in status from paid work to housework is likely to be associated with dissatisfaction in both social classes , and a simple enjoyment of the rewards of an outside job is also , for both middle- and working-class women , a bad omen from the viewpoint of housework satisfaction . |