Example sentences of "[verb] to [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 31 | The poet praises Beowulf by linking his killing of the monster Grendel with the feats of Sigmund , who was clearly expected to be familiar to an English audience . |
| 32 | A burst of frequency between 10 and 10 4 Hz is expected with a duration of several cycles and an energy release of between and in gravitational waves from a star core of mass M. The mass M is expected to be similar to that of the pulsars , which average around for the few cases where measurements have been made . |
| 33 | You 'll get little change from £40,000 for the 300SE , the 500SE is expected to sell for around £60,000 while the flagship 600SEL ( the short wheelbase model wo n't be sold in Britain ) is expected to be close to £80,000 — £22,500 more than the rival 750iL BMW . |
| 34 | The total for 1990 was expected to be close to a record EC$100,000,000 . |
| 35 | The standards of cleanliness and hygiene in our feed mills is now expected to be close to human food factories , and this is monitored by the Company 's Quality and Service audits . |
| 36 | The relief of strain energy would thus be expected to be proportional to the square of the crack length , or rather depth , and in fact this rough guess is confirmed by calculation . |
| 37 | It came from human tissues , and so could reasonably be expected to be harmless to them , unlike the synthetic antibacterial substances such as arsenicals and flavines which were the best known at the time . |
| 38 | Preparations to provide mains electricity on Rathlin island are progressing satisfactorily , and supply is expected to be available to consumers in September . |
| 39 | Whereas women are frequently family breadwinners ( in contrast with women in white South African society ) , they are otherwise expected to be subordinate to men . |
| 40 | People lacking supportive relationships were expected to be prone to depression whether or not they experienced major difficulties or threatening events . |
| 41 | Portuguese , although appearing to be similar to Spanish on paper , is pronounced completely differently , and so despite the fact that we could communicate in French and Spanish , we could not make ourselves understood in Portuguese other than to ask , ‘ Fala ingles ? — do you speak English ? ’ |
| 42 | Where there was success it was claimed to be due to local outlets and relevant local knowledge . |
| 43 | This was claimed to be contrary to the right to property guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment . |
| 44 | Computers , especially microcomputers and terminals with monitors , have been claimed to be harmful to the health of the operator because of radioactive emissions although at the present time there does not appear to be any conclusive proof that a real danger to health exists . |
| 45 | We hope an expect to be faithful to each other . |
| 46 | ‘ Most of our customers are second time buyers who know what they want and expect to be able to just walk in and take it off the shelf like a can of beans , ’ he says . |
| 47 | Any action has to be additional to member states ' own policies ; it has to take into account the views of the region ; it has to be adopted unanimously by the Council , and the European Parliament ( EP ) can veto it . |
| 48 | One has to be grateful to him for intervening personally . |
| 49 | The ADC felt that this was ironic , given that a property has to be close to amenities if it is to be excluded from the Right to Buy ; |
| 50 | It has to be tall to really taste nice . |
| 51 | Put forward the idea that " answers " are like hypotheses in science which have to be tested and tried out and replaced by better ones if necessary , but the testing has to be appropriate to the subject-matter . |
| 52 | In which case , if all the other factors have been adequately controlled , any difference in output has to be attributable to the independent variable since it is the only difference between the two groups . |
| 53 | The form that criticism takes has to be specific to its object . |
| 54 | In order to become ill one has to be susceptible to that illness . |
| 55 | Libidinal energy from sexuality has to be available to be used in creating and maintaining society and cultures . |
| 56 | They could never have done anything wide-scale without us knowing — and a Resistance movement has to be wide-scale to be any use . |
| 57 | The waves are transverse , which means that the direction of oscillation has to be perpendicular to the direction of motion of the wave . |
| 58 | Stiffening has to be resin-bonded to the material and even the smallest bolted item has to be located specifically on to wooden cores set and bonded into the FRC material . |
| 59 | Plainly not everyone has to be subject to chronic disease . |
| 60 | That has to be fundamental to our relationship , but it does n't mean I do n't care . ’ |