Example sentences of "[noun pl] [is] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The significant main effect of junction type for both descriptions and potential risks is difficult to accommodate within this framework . |
| 2 | The eyes of BURMA and its growing generation is opening with speed and certainty — the PINNACLE OF BRITISH and European superiority is crumbling to dust — BEWARE the pent up strength of all Asiatics is well near bursting point-THE STRUGGLE FOR TOTAL FREEDOM OF ALL SUBJECT PEOPLES IS SURE TO BEGIN IN THE NOT DISTANT FUTURE . |
| 3 | While we know that putting young offenders in penal settings is likely to lead to poor results in terms of behaviour modification , it has the function of being a punitive symbol and keeping awkward clients out of circulation . |
| 4 | The intrusion of the bureaucratic considerations is likely to lead to solutions which differ in many cases from those an individual should have adopted if left to himself . |
| 5 | The lyricism of long-spun melodies is impossible to sustain on the piano , and the rhetoric of hammered chords , thrilling when orchestrated , can seem a mere mannerism , as in the finale of No. 3 and the middle movement of No. 4 . |
| 6 | Large third-world cities are particularly at risk , as the depletion of groundwater reserves is likely to accelerate in order to meet the needs of a rapidly expanding population . |
| 7 | The bulk of such funds is likely to go towards paying for salaries , administration , post and telephone , and publicity . |
| 8 | The bulk of such funds is likely to go towards paying salaries , administration , post and telephone and publicity . |
| 9 | Even the popular teenager who rebels against parental values and goals is likely to return to them by the age of thirty or so . |
| 10 | The creation of a currency union by encouraging a shift of resources back to the manufacturing sectors is likely to result in an increase of the average productivity growth rate of member countries and , again , in a decline of their respective natural rates of unemployment . |
| 11 | A cross-bred puppy with large feet is likely to grow into a big dog . |
| 12 | Central to any definition of apraxia is the idea that any paralysis or weakness of limbs is insufficient to account for the movement disorder . |
| 13 | The effect of the Moscow trials is difficult to gauge from the immediate reaction . |
| 14 | In a society which has fully internalized the consequences of the Einsteinian revolution and its off-shoots , an epistemology based on the postulates of classical scientific models is unable to cope with social structures formed according to this new way of thinking . |
| 15 | One thing is clear : Islam flourishes like a hardy plant wherever it springs up , and a tradition that has endured for over 1,300 years is sure to endure for a few more . |
| 16 | The strike record in the immediate pre-war years is difficult to reconcile with the notion that workers ' protest was becoming less intense . |
| 17 | The value of the work undertaken by informal carers is difficult to estimate with precision . |
| 18 | So quite obviously the how we say things is all to do with the voice is n't it ? |
| 19 | The evidence is that at the present time there is a serious lack of resources to care adequately for the number of sufferers living in ordinary housing , and that this mismatch between numbers and resources is likely to increase at least to the end of the century . |
| 20 | Media influence on perceptions is likely to depend upon whether they are at the pure perception end of the spectrum or at the margin between perceptions and attitudes . |
| 21 | Moreover , the abnormal timing of bowel habits , of hunger and , particularly , of temperature , performance , and hormone rhythms is difficult to explain in these psychosomatic terms . |
| 22 | It is not always easy to predict just what problems a particular group of learners is likely to have with any materials . |
| 23 | Attempts to establish such relations firmly in the successor republics are still going on , but the crisis inherent in contemporary political conditions is likely to result in strong executives . |
| 24 | The extend to which HNC/HND courses and degree courses can be integrated while still satisfying their own particular objectives is likely to vary from one subject area to another . |
| 25 | Fitting the abrasive sheet under the end clamps is easy to achieve by easing the push buttons on the deck of the machine inwards using a thumb . |
| 26 | And a syllabus which defines its content in functional terms is supposed to account for communicative competence in a way which syllabuses designed on other principles can not . |
| 27 | Corporate Partners is keen to talk to other UK companies with a strong balance sheet and a proven management ability to execute a business plan . |
| 28 | On the other hand , noticeable deviation from typical target-language patterns of chunking information and signalling relations is likely to result in the sort of text that can easily be identified as a translation because it sounds ‘ foreign ’ . |
| 29 | Information on body materials is hard to come by , but it 's obviously a two-piece maple-veneered top and back , contoured with Stratocaster-type shaping ; it 's also weighty enough to offer good sustain . |
| 30 | Midiscan for Windows is due to ship in the first week of July , with Macintosh and Atari versions following next year . |