Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first stages are fitted with input offset adjustments just large enough to cancel the largest field likely to be encountered , namely the total inclined component in the middle latitudes . |
| 2 | Only where organisations appreciate the consequences for information resources , which they perceive to be valuable , is that investment likely to be made . |
| 3 | More prosperous groups own banners up to 300 foot long to be processed at village festivals . |
| 4 | With the horse-trading in the event of a hung parliament certain to be ferocious , Liberal Democrats are keen to indicate that they would strike a tough bargain . |
| 5 | The show purports to be a potted history of the average actor 's life not one of the starspangled knights who represent the tip of the thespian iceberg , but the common-or-garden variety likely to be found filling out the bill in a panto or carrying a spear in the background of a TV costume drama . |
| 6 | When is this bloke supposed to be phoning ? |
| 7 | What was this meeting supposed to be about ? |
| 8 | When 's this treatment likely to be finished ? |
| 9 | Simon , a manager who , at 39 , is the oldest person questioned , says : ‘ The idea that people will think it is in some way impressive to be seen drinking low-alcohol muck is obvious nonsense . ’ |
| 10 | But supposing this sense of design is lost ? … " what many feel , touch upon , but hardly articulate … " design " as a term which is a noun and a verb , and also one which denotes a form of representation , an activity , a practice , a product etc etc at one and the same time … ie design as a priori a social activity unable to be undertaken without having social implications . |
| 11 | Now when was this memoir supposed to be in by ? |
| 12 | At the very least it would make it a more rationally and humanely organised system likely to be more productive ; at best it would provide the conditions for eventual emancipation should that decision finally be made . |
| 13 | Fabric : Airlight — a 50/50 polyester/cotton supposed to be ‘ light and quick drying ’ |
| 14 | Nor was the Soviet Union at this stage inclined to be particularly generous in its terms . |
| 15 | It was argued that only property-owners had the economic independence necessary to be a free man . |
| 16 | These were ( i ) the abolition of the draconian National Security Law relating to sedition and espionage ; ( ii ) admission of a North Korean " consolation " delegation to visit three South Korean dissidents imprisoned under the National Security Law for having made unauthorized visits to the North ; and ( iii ) the authorization of South Korean dissidents to attend a pro-unification rally due to be held in Panmunjom on Aug. 15 , the anniversary of Korean liberation from Japanese colonial rule . |
| 17 | The planning authority has to assess the amount of land required for mineral working , and this requires an assessment of the future demand likely to be made on production in its area . |
| 18 | A full list of projects will appear in JFIT News and also in the 1991 JFIT Annual report due to be published in October . |
| 19 | It could be another sign that EASE is in for a tough few months , ironic when its annual report due to be published soon , will show that it made its first modest profit in 1992 . |
| 20 | today this becomes the first railway shadow franchise , its operations hived off into a separate company ready to be sold . |
| 21 | British Telecom , Mercury 's competitor , has already announced similar plans using Unisat , Britain 's national satellite due to be launched in 1986 . |
| 22 | Former President Goukouni Oueddei returned to Chad for the first time in nine years on May 18-19 , meeting with President Idriss Déby and reportedly discussing the proposals for a multiparty system due to be introduced in January 1992 . |
| 23 | Her methods of child-rearing stand out as being more ‘ working-class ’ than ‘ middle-class ’ ; for example she smacked a lot and expected the three year old to be clean and tidy all the time : both these are areas in which the Newsons found social class differences in their study . |
| 24 | I feel that once parents begin to become too aware of norms , they worry , and therefore unless a child is grossly out of sync , if you like , with their peers , I would n't say it would matter , but yes , one would expect a three year old to be talking at one extreme . |
| 25 | I feel that once parents begin to become too aware of norms , they worry , and therefore unless a child is grossly out of sync , if you like , with their peers , I would n't say it would matter , but yes , one would expect a three year old to be talking at one extreme . |
| 26 | If appraisal leads to the creation of a new bureaucracy which consumes money which would otherwise be spent on resources for children , is such formalised procedure likely to be beneficial ? |
| 27 | In mid-January the Chinese government issued details of the governmental framework likely to be established in the post-1997 Hong Kong Special Administrative Region ( SAR ) . |
| 28 | He may have realised earlier than most of us that the King was in the long run unfitted to be King . |
| 29 | It is expected that assignments to the headship will normally occur on a five-year cycle , with the existing head eligible to be redesignated . |
| 30 | And indeed , with the final two shows of the current season due to be directed by Roy Heayberd and Joe Devlin , there seemed no reason why the evidently unhappy incumbent should remain in place for much longer . |