Example sentences of "they are [adj] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are unlikely to have been less subjective — or contestable . |
| 2 | Does he agree that those people in the House who advocate expenditure without saying how much they are prepared to spend are entirely unconvincing ? |
| 3 | Surface links between American airports and the cities they are supposed to serve are usually dire . |
| 4 | They learn to crawl and then to walk , and the first direction in which they are likely to move is away . |
| 5 | Worse , many bad habits can be especially difficult to cure because they are likely to have been created by anxiety in the first place , and trying to stop the habit increases the horse 's anxiety . |
| 6 | Since on that occasion they were working with the approval of Fredegund they are likely to have been opposed to Brunhild . |
| 7 | If , instead , the tax payers had sold their shares for a larger amount , sufficient to enable them to repay the loans , they are likely to have been personally better off , because of indexation allowance to reduce the additional gain deriving from the sale of the shares , and because they would not have suffered an income tax charge under either ss421 or 160 . |