Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [adj] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The initial motivations that lead a previously ‘ honest ’ businessman to commit a long-firm fraud are liable to be financial , perhaps a temporary shortage of money . |
| 32 | Efficiency improvements in cars are likely to be responsible for significant conservation of fuel in the next 10 years . |
| 33 | Their pregnancies are likely to be troublesome and repetitive . |
| 34 | The relevant factors to consider in investment appraisal are likely to be different for each product and can be determined only through a thorough understanding of the company 's and industry 's actual and specific situation . |
| 35 | People , however , can only mobilise their adult mature capacities if their peers are prepared to be curious about their social world and its implicit and explicit political structures as these exist in reality and in their minds . |
| 36 | That is , it is probably undesirable for co-operative R&D ventures to include all producers of a competing range of products , and two or more co-operative projects serving the same downstream industry are likely to be preferable to a single , all-inclusive project . |
| 37 | Now the only survivors are likely to be serious candidates . |
| 38 | In the types of premises under consideration , having accepted that conventional methods of fire fighting are likely to be ineffective , the success of controlling fire may perhaps no longer be judged in terms of cubic capacity alone . |
| 39 | Readers — not only teachers and examiners , but readers generally — develop such sophisticated responses to nuances of register that faked styles are likely to be noticeable . |
| 40 | Dismissals are likely to be fair provided that the employer can show a good business reason for the move and that adequate consultation took place . |
| 41 | The CAB has become quite used to responding to emergencies , so when a bureau is alerted to an impending crisis and the clients are unlikely to be able to visit the bureau , the workers go out to the clients . |
| 42 | ‘ Non-German bond yields are unlikely to be able to undercut their DM counterpart , and with plenty of supply on the way , the floor will not come down too quickly . ’ |
| 43 | In relation to white British culture in particular , various factors combine to create a sense of unreliability in in-law support : the ambiguity about whether the in-laws are ‘ really ’ part of your kin group ; the possibility that the linking third party will be removed at some stage ; the expectation that in-law relationships are likely to be tricky at an interpersonal level . |
| 44 | Wider networks in schools are likely to be possible in the future . |
| 45 | Such a bouncing of complicity and distance is a characteristic form of engagement in generically mixed forms such as Hill Street Blues , St. Elsewhere or thirtysomething : a form of engagement in which identification and recognition are liable to be wrong-footed at any moment by ironic distance , and , at the same time , ironic distance is liable to be caught out by sudden empathetic recognition . |
| 46 | And even though many schools and school authorities in the United States were slow to be convinced , the 19605 was the decade of the famous Knapp School Libraries Project , of federal grants for multi-media developments under the Elementary and Secondary Education Acts , and of the development of the electronic study carrel and dial-access . |
| 47 | They landed at 0600 hours , unopposed by a German garrison satiated on Christmas fare ; the commando planners picking times for a strike force to land when the enemy were likely to be off-guard . |
| 48 | The recommendation , and its ultimate partial acceptance , have been criticised on the grounds that lack of legal advice at an early stage may simply lead to disputes later on , to be resolved with the support of legal aid , and that the cost savings were unlikely to be substantial . |
| 49 | ( This remedy is unlikely to be available at your local stockists — see Remedies and Pharmacies on page 140 ) . |
| 50 | At the time of our patient 's presentation a survey of published works did not show any cases with both conditions , but subsequently a single case has been reported , suggesting that any association is likely to be weak . |
| 51 | The less the natural variation within blocks , the greater is the internal validity of the experiment ; the greater the natural variability among blocks , the greater the external validity ( though a single experiment is unlikely to be adequate in this respect ) ; and randomization of the treatments within each block eliminates bias in the comparisons . |
| 52 | Proving that the negligence caused loss is likely to be difficult because of the uncertainty of the results of that independent investigation : and the party making the allegation might have the damages reduced for contributory negligence in not having drawn the matter to the expert 's attention during the course of the reference . |
| 53 | The result is likely to be cultural homogeneity . |
| 54 | so that roof 's supposed to be green then |
| 55 | Moira McVitie is supposed to be intelligent as well . |
| 56 | Your method of narration is likely to be different in a short story . |
| 57 | The relatively small difference in median age between the patients and the control subjects is unlikely to be important . |
| 58 | This is a time when the risk of suicide or another attempt is likely to be high . |
| 59 | Even a playful nip is likely to be painful and may well lead to further displays of such aggression . |
| 60 | Yet realistically this dilemma is likely to be brief as long as employers hold the key to one 's livelihood rather than the professional association . |