Example sentences of "in [noun] [adj] to be " in BNC.

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1 There was a there was a man from Greentoft in Eday supposed to be .
2 That extra purchase price , and the cost of the more frequent oil-change services a diesel car requires , have to be balanced against the savings in fuel likely to be made — currently around 195p per gallon .
3 Three years before , Darwin had arrived in Sydney proud to be an Englishman and left ‘ without sorrow or regret ’ .
4 Chiang is put in irons ready to be shot .
5 The other roots prefer slightly acid conditions ; their place in the rotation system is in soil due to be limed the following year .
6 The question is : How important are such differences or asymmetries in information likely to be ?
7 The films were recorded in locations unlikely to be identified by the members of the research panel .
8 The problem results from the fact that the compulsory element in the Directive , so far as it exists , relates merely to the transfer of the contract of employment , but the contract of employment is a consensual relationship , at least as far as the employee is concerned , and so it is in principle available to be terminated unilaterally by the employee at any time or to be modified with the joint consent of employee and employer .
9 The paper is in fact due to be published in Research Policy in the near future .
10 Although associated with Brian Boru , the 11th-century high king of Ireland , the harp is in fact unlikely to be more than five hundred years old .
11 We shall show first that what might appear to be an obvious way to proceed is not in fact likely to be valid and that a more subtle approach is required .
12 Trying to segment the speech signal into phonemes is in fact likely to be a very errorful process for the following reasons .
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