Example sentences of "[be] [adj] to be the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Once the individual begins to establish regularities , to generalise over experience , it becomes possible for him not only to recognise a particular experience as being one of a type , say a scolding or an interview , it also becomes possible to predict what is likely to happen , what are likely to be the relevant features of context , within a particular type of communicative event . |
| 32 | In such cases , personality and the possibility of very high rewards to the organization at the end of the day are likely to be the major influences . |
| 33 | The determinants of an individuals ' welfare can be broadly classified as depending upon their own capacity to care for themselves combined with ( a ) market activities and relationships ; ( b ) the behaviour of ‘ significant others ’ as providers of ‘ informal care ’ amongst whom family members are likely to be the most important ; and ( c ) the role played by the state . |
| 34 | The third quarter 1991 bad debts are likely to be the worst ever , according to Europe 's largest trade credit insurance broker , The Credit Insurance Association Ltd . |
| 35 | What are likely to be the most effective methods by which bureaucracies can be made democratically responsible ? |
| 36 | If one looks at the sky on a clear , moonless night , the brightest objects one sees are likely to be the planets Venus , Mars , Jupiter , and Saturn . |
| 37 | However , because many personnel users are new to computing , and because they may be uncertain of their needs , two particular approaches are likely to be the most satisfactory . |
| 38 | First , the earliest investment projects undertaken are likely to be the most profitable , i.e. offering the highest expected yearly returns ( R ) , and therefore having the highest marginal efficiencies of investment ( i ) . |
| 39 | The other obvious features are likely to be the platforms lying alongside the holloways , on which the farms and cottages formerly stood . |
| 40 | It seems businesses have never set out to choose in a deliberate and disciplined way which technique or techniques are likely to be the most effective , given the circumstances and the resources available . |
| 41 | Work units allocate accommodation , so your dorm mates are likely to be the people you work with all day . |
| 42 | Older taps are likely to be the rising spindle kind ( see drawing ) , but these have been widely replaced with shrouded-head taps with non-rising spindles . |
| 43 | Those that can get jobs will leave , and these are likely to be the staff that the organisation wants to keep most . |
| 44 | No two BOT schemes are likely to be the same but a special purpose company is usually formed to enter into the principal contracts and loan agreements . |
| 45 | This is the point erm , well Plato made the point that the people we most want to rule us are probably the ones that are the least likely to want to take on that duty and Ben Williams made the same point the other way round that the people who rise to the top in politics are likely to be the ones that we would least like to have governing us . |
| 46 | These are likely to be the same Japanese companies that are already exploiting the forests of other Far Eastern countries such as Malaysia , Indonesia and Thailand . |
| 47 | Of the six , the sewage sludge ones are likely to be the least polluting . |
| 48 | After that , the only visitors are likely to be the bulldozers . |
| 49 | Somehow it does n't seem right to count your calories during the week and then suddenly explode into an orgy of indiscriminate gorging when guests come and you are supposed to be the one in control . |
| 50 | They are geographically isolated , and they are grossly under-represented — two out of 400 — in the committees that are supposed to be the nucleus of a future Palestinian self-governing authority . |
| 51 | The ages between sixteen and twenty-two are supposed to be the best in your life . |
| 52 | So , Sir , I have been able to reflect on the inherent good sense of the people of Worcester over the years I have been privileged to be the Member for that constituency . |
| 53 | Cancer is not one disease but many , and the answers are unlikely to be the same for all of them . |
| 54 | If it is left indefinitely , it will revert to poorer , indigenous species which are unlikely to be the most productive or nutritious . |
| 55 | As DON CAMERON reports , they are unlikely to be the last New Zealanders to make the move . |
| 56 | Although these familial influences are unlikely to be the primary focus of the intervention , they are important points of reference , helping both the therapist and client make sense of the presenting problems . |
| 57 | However well you try to equip yourself , qualifications are unlikely to be the decisive factor . |
| 58 | This conflict of roles has of course its benefits , and in any case formal inspections are unlikely to be the norm . |
| 59 | They are unlikely to be the origin of the abnormalities shown by the labelling techniques . |
| 60 | Patients with anaemia with these lesions require full investigation as they are unlikely to be the cause of the anaemia even if frank rectal bleeding is present . |