Example sentences of "[adj] to be [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local authority loans for house purchase are more likely to be made to manual groups and they tend to concentrate on the purchase of older dwellings . |
| 2 | Indeed , their different uses have been investigated by Sanford , Moar & Garrod ( 1988 ; Garrod & Sanford 1990 ) , who showed that pronominal references in continuations are more likely to be made to proper-named characters , and that characters introduced by proper name are more easily accessed for anaphoric reference , as indexed by self-paced reading time . |
| 3 | [ That this House regrets the Government 's failure to deal with the imminent threat of wholesale breaches of the law on Sunday trading ; expresses concern that Ministers appear to be running away from their responsibility to uphold the law as soon as one or more large commercial organisations express their intention to ignore the law ; greatly regrets the way that this situation puts pressure on responsible and law-abiding retailers to open on Sundays simply to protect their market share ; further regrets the damage that is likely to be done to small shops and family businesses as a consequence ; considers that sensible progress to modernising the law should be made on the basis of the REST proposals put forward by Keep Sunday Special ; and calls on the Government actively to pursue the regulation of Sunday trading in a way which deals fairly with employees , their families and with community and commercial interests . ] |
| 4 | If it were for students in Writing , Publishing and Communications then more emphasis is likely to be given to editorial aids and to the structure of the publishing industry . |
| 5 | The NHS is into an era of capital charging , which is likely to be extended to other public sector bodies , including some ( such as universities ) which are formally autonomous . |
| 6 | If successful , the policy is likely to be extended to other branches around the country . |
| 7 | Clearly , the existence of timber decay is likely to be related to other shortcomings in the condition of the building and these faults may require rectification in addition to treatment of the timber . |
| 8 | The attitudes of women to work in the home are very likely to be related to other attitudes they hold — such as those to paid employment , to marriage , to child-socialization , to leisure activities and so on . |
| 9 | Sometimes these triggering events are related to physical ageing , but are just as likely to be related to personal changes , such as a death in the family . |
| 10 | Today 's games received an extra boost last night when Rugby Union secretary Dudley Wood revealed that this summer 's England tour of Canada and the US looks likely to be upgraded to full Test status . |
| 11 | Not only is the social distance between service providers and clients reduced but service practices are more likely to be adapted to local needs when paraprofessionals are employed in front-line service roles . |
| 12 | Access to the system is nearly always indirect and therefore slow , and likely to be confined to certain times because of a need to load the payroll or manpower tapes within the computer centre . |
| 13 | In the immediate future , the biological synthesis of specific products is likely to be confined to bacterial cultures under strictly controlled conditions . |
| 14 | They are most likely to be attached to primary schools in areas of social need , or to special schools . |
| 15 | At Midland we appreciate that businesses will only wish to draw upon a selection of our full range of Money Transmission Services and will require these to be tailored to individual requirements . |
| 16 | In 1651 the Dutch republic forbade its diplomats to accept gifts from foreign governments ; and in 1692 regulations were issued in Sweden which for the first time specified the value of those to be given to foreign representatives on their departure . |
| 17 | Although there is a temptation to save scarce money by cutting down on insurance , the Church 's human and material resources are too important to be exposed to needless risk or loss . |
| 18 | The defect in the Act which the reintroduction of the intention to incite racial hatred was intended to remedy was that where the recipient of the material was for one reason or another unlikely to be moved to racial hatred , no offence was committed . |
| 19 | Those means would be extra-parliamentary ; they would be unlikely to be confined to constitutional and lawful action and it would not be difficult to mount persuasive moral arguments for such activities . |
| 20 | A farewell party was held last night at Hustledown House in Stanley , where three residents have already left and a further 13 are due to be relocated to other Durham County Council homes before the weekend . |
| 21 | The remaining 1,000 staff at Subic , once the largest US naval facility outside north America , were transferred to Cubi Point naval air station , which was itself due to be returned to Philippine control on Nov. 24 . |
| 22 | He waited for me every year — we came back for about six years , until I was ready to be sent to finishing school . |
| 23 | Instead , the governance of academic institutions is liable to be reduced to mere technique , under the control of managers with an eye on the bottom line . |
| 24 | While I agree that orders made under section 6(2) and section 61(1) must be restricted to their proper restitutionary purpose , it is not , in my opinion , right to emasculate the restitutionary remedy available against persons ‘ knowingly concerned ’ on the ground that they are not liable to be subjected to compensatory remedies . |
| 25 | And all single or childless women between twenty and thirty were liable to be directed to essential war work of some kind as we can see here erm com coming to the factories erm there 's a woman there driving a tank another one on er a gu a gun sight . |