Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [adj] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jonathan Davies and Barry Williams have been ruled out but Paul Moriarty and Kevin Ellis are likely to be fit . |
| 2 | Hearn and Doyle are certain to be vocal at the WPBSA 's annual general meeting at Bristol on December 29 . |
| 3 | It is just that the type of early-warning signals just discussed will indicate whether the expected improvement in competitive strength and the projected cash flows are likely to be achievable . |
| 4 | Accordingly we can identify two necessary conditions which must be fulfilled before macroeconomic policies are likely to be successful : |
| 5 | In Statement B this story line is applied to the police force to suggest that the young white working-class men who enter the force are to a large extent preselected , and irrespective of recruitment and training policies are likely to be authoritarian personality types who flourish in a para-military environment and ‘ have a hang-up about race ’ . |
| 6 | These oolites are likely to be similar to those present in Rustenburg-l , where a thin unit of cross-bedded oolitic grainstones about 2 m in thickness , is present at the base of the platform sequence ( Fig. 28 ) . |
| 7 | Where an owner continues to be centrally involved and lives in the house or on the estate , attitudes are likely to be positive and the house opened in a lively fashion . |
| 8 | Automatic negotiating rights are not guaranteed , but employers are likely to be angry . |
| 9 | Again , unions in conjunction with employers are likely to be able to find answers to the access-to-cash problem . |
| 10 | Damages in fatal accident cases are likely to be substantial and should not be underestimated . |
| 11 | It suggests that the courts are entitled to be satisfied that certain minimal procedural requirements have been fulfilled but that , thereafter , and provided that they are fulfilled , no objection can be taken to the validity of the Act on grounds of its substantial content . |
| 12 | The courts are supposed to be vigilant on behalf of the citizen , and mindful of the liberty to go about one 's lawful business . |
| 13 | Here the use of but suggests that the speaker thinks small houses are likely to be dirty . |
| 14 | However , additional genetic or environmental factors leading to more severely impaired β cell function are likely to be necessary for the development of non-insulin dependent diabetes . |
| 15 | The laws of physics are supposed to be true all over the accessible universe . |
| 16 | The trouble with the new community councils is that they have largely fallen into the hands of the incoming middle-class whose views are likely to be coincident with the dominant ideology . |
| 17 | Employers ' and parents interpretations may diverge even more widely , particularly as the level of detail these groups are likely to be able or willing to handle will be broader than that used by teachers . |
| 18 | The Football Association are sure to be unswayed by this set-back , as they were by the failure to score in the opening European championship games against Denmark and France and then by the defeat by Sweden . |
| 19 | Although he stops short of locating particular disciplines within this typology , one can see that for example the natural sciences would tend to be hard and pure , engineering would be hard and applied , the arts are likely to be soft , and so on . |
| 20 | The main corollary to this is that , while CSPs in general are gradual in their strength ( depending on how fast or carefully one speaks ) , socially differentiated CSPs are likely to be discrete . |
| 21 | Contemporary readers are apt to be startled that Swift , an intelligent man , should have said , still less actually believed , anything so silly . |
| 22 | Modern readers are likely to be pragmatic ; if a poem like Alice Fell is still convincing as poetry , it matters little what theories it was designed to illustrate ; if it does not succeed , no amount of special pleading can save it . |
| 23 | Production organizations are likely to be high structures and R&D departments low structures . |
| 24 | Divisional Manager , Brian Walker ( pictured left ) said : ‘ Southern Electric are delighted to be able to help young people , who are striving to overcome disabilities and to gain their independence . |
| 25 | If we are indeed a unique species then many of the behaviours which differentiate us from other animals are likely to be due to our genetic make-up rather than to cultural conditioning ; but the difficulty is to know just what these animal-human characteristics might be . |
| 26 | After nomination the candidate is entitled to be present at the issue of postal ballot papers , to visit the polling stations and the candidate , the candidate 's spouse ( if any ) , and ( except in parish or community elections ) the candidate 's election agent are entitled to be present at the count together with a number of counting agents . |
| 27 | In these relationships , both parties are likely to be risk-averse , perhaps employees more so than the manager as they may have a greater proportion of human and other capital tied up in firm-specific assets . |
| 28 | Third parties are unlikely to be able to challenge concessions granted to a taxpayer . |
| 29 | The United Kingdom 's reserves are likely to be empty in forty years even at the current rate of consumption . |
| 30 | We suggest that , whatever the lineage of the TNF α producing cells , the effects of such high local concentrations are likely to be adverse . |