Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [adj] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | Wider networks in schools are likely to be possible in the future . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | The relatively small difference in median age between the patients and the control subjects is unlikely to be important . |
| 35 | But this doctrine of matching policy instruments to policy variables is unlikely to be effective in all cases : for example , a desire for strategic reasons to protect a domestic defence industry from foreign takeovers , or a desire to maintain a diversity of ownership in the newspaper industry . |
| 36 | Their reporting of speeches is likely to be inaccurate in many ways , sometimes embarrassingly so . |
| 37 | Examples given in " Working Together " which may justify exclusion include cases where parents are likely to be disruptive or violent to the child or professional participants ( para 6.15 ) . |
| 38 | If a total of less than 1% of the population is undefined then the errors are unlikely to be great , but the reliability of the moments decreases sharply as the proportions of undefined materials increases , and the technique should not be used with a higher proportion of unknowns notwithstanding the convenience and availability of pocket calculators suitable to perform the arithmetic . |
| 39 | However , we are given that errors are likely to be proportional to t . |
| 40 | Planting can be in autumn or spring , the latter if winters are likely to be severe . |
| 41 | These may take the form of problems which even if proved empirically to influence resource needs do so in such particular , local , and sometimes subtle ways that statistical models are unlikely to be sensitive enough to be helpful . |
| 42 | Women in the trade unions are advising that unless 15 years of trade-union equality policies are negotiated into practice , any market-led advantages are likely to be short-term and easily reversible . |
| 43 | However , these advantages are unlikely to be important if scale economies are only limited in extent , and cost-based pricing is certainly easier to adopt . |
| 44 | It will be some time before Stewart can begin on the interior decor , but the furnishings are likely to be medieval in flavour , if contemporary in colour , with heavy tapestries draped from the walls and fittings boxed into the panelling . |
| 45 | Some fungi , bacteria and viruses are likely to be present in most ponds and aquaria , but that these do not cause problems until fish are injured or weakened in some way . |
| 46 | The above effects are likely to be important only at or below the glass transition temperature but they do not seem to have been analysed to date , nor is there yet a molecular interpretation of the frictional forces between chains arising from these and other causes . |
| 47 | I believe that there is a very complex social dynamic operating in this ( and other ) areas of education and that therefore simple cause-and-effect hypotheses are unlikely to be adequate . |
| 48 | These texts are unable to be critical of the framework within which prejudice and racism flourish . |
| 49 | Multi-purpose chips are likely to be popular with manufacturers , because they offer the advantages of reduced chip count and board space , and faster time to market . |
| 50 | Multi-purpose chips are likely to be popular with manufacturers , because they offer the advantages of reduced chip count and board space , and faster time to market . |
| 51 | THREE young canoeists are lucky to be alive this morning after they were plucked to safety minutes before being swept to sea . |
| 52 | You could tell the system to delay sending the faxes until , say midnight , when fax lines are likely to be quiet as well as cheap . |
| 53 | None of these four biases are likely to be consistent either across the two sexes or across different species : all four are more likely to affect estimates of variation in male success than estimates of variation in female success in polygynous species , though in contrary directions . |
| 54 | Lower gear ratios are likely to be suitable when the motor 's speed capability is restricted . |
| 55 | However , while the growth of the international financial system would seem to imply the need for increasingly centralised decision-making , individual countries were unlikely to be willing to relinquish the freedom to conduct their own economic affairs for the sake of the greater international good . |
| 56 | Blacks were right to be suspicious . |
| 57 | In conditions of general ‘ dollar shortage ’ the effects were likely to be significant . |
| 58 | The Marines were supposed to be afraid of nothing , but the sight of the villagers clawing their way back into the world was too much . |
| 59 | Likewise , leasing companies were unlikely to be able to retain more than one third of the aircraft they ordered on their own balance sheets . |
| 60 | Any effect on the number of road accident casualties is likely to be detectable only in the longer term . |