Example sentences of "[adj] to [be] [adj] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's why it 's impossible to be prescriptive about how you should allocate your own time — and that 's why it 's essential that you learn how best to manage your time for yourself . |
| 2 | It is impossible to be precise over how much influence Parliament exercises over government policy . |
| 3 | In any case it is not easy to be sure about how an illness will progress or what the outcome of a treatment will be . |
| 4 | One obvious problem in establishing and using age norms is that , for any given child , it is not easy to be precise about when any specific skill has been mastered . |
| 5 | Very few flats — even for two persons — are likely to be available for less than £300 per month . |
| 6 | Very few flats — even for two persons — are likely to be available for less than £300 per month . |
| 7 | But the company is probably right also to say that several drugs in combination are likely to be involved in more effective drug therapy . |
| 8 | Differences are also apparent in the types of help and support which carers give , suggesting that women care-givers are likely to be involved in more intensive and intimate activities . |
| 9 | In general , the dirtier the receiving watercourse the less likely a discharge is to be defined as polluting , since the pollutant is less likely to have any measurable impact on the stream , less likely to be visible in already dirty water , and less likely to produce any noticeable ill-effects upon already scarce fish , plant , or animal life . |
| 10 | Thus Wing Commander Hodsoll , Secretary of the ARP Committee , gloomily warned his colleagues in November 1936 that ‘ certain areas have been scheduled as likely to be subject to almost continuous bombing in the event of war ’ , and similar pessimism ran through the 1938 Anderson report on evacuation . |
| 11 | Three quarters of developing countries ' earnings come from just 33 commodities , and an individual country is likely to be dependent on just two or three of these.4 |
| 12 | Employees are likely to be concerned about how they will fit back into the system on returning from an overseas contract . |
| 13 | In both cases , however , taxpayers are likely to be concerned with how actual spending turns out ( hence the use of the word ‘ out-turns ’ to refer to actuals ) against budgeted spending ; not least because over-spendings are likely to mean higher taxes and under-spendings lower ones . |
| 14 | The faunas and/or floras of these two formations are likely to be different for purely ecological or preservational reasons ( in fact the lower formation in this case , having been metamorphosed , will presumably have no recognisable fossils anyway ) . |
| 15 | On all of their criteria they conclude that a school-based approach is likely to be superior to either one based upon testing or inspection . |
| 16 | Computationally-inclined psychologists or epistemologists , however , are more likely to be interested in how these things can be done , irrespective of which species manage to do them . |
| 17 | Furthermore , it suggest that those people who had become unemployed because of a temporary job coming to an end were just as likely to be unemployed for only a short spell and then to go back to work , and that they were less likely to have been continuously unemployed throughout the following year ( Moylan/Millar/Davies , 1984 ) . |
| 18 | But once familiar with partial knitting you will probably find it very helpful to be able to partially knit along the top edge to produce a slope at each side leaving the centre stitches for the neck edge . |
| 19 | As with all techniques , it 's important to be clear about why one is using it . |
| 20 | This is well beyond the time scale generally relevant to landform development but it is still important to be aware of how present landscapes , especially in plate interiors , relate to the most recent episode of supercontinent fragmentation . |
| 21 | However , the use of a tranquilliser is a last resort , and is most unlikely to be necessary for more than one in a hundred horses . |
| 22 | These findings support our previous work showing that H pylori release of ammonia is unlikely to be responsible for either the hypergastrinaemia or the gastritis caused by this bacterium . |
| 23 | Moreover , as payments were commonly made to gang leaders , the contractor was unlikely to be aware of even the names of men employed on the site . |
| 24 | If those trains represented the top quality of Provincial 's empire , there was much less to be excited about elsewhere . |
| 25 | But , unless you have a particular skill , it is essential to be flexible on both location and salary . |
| 26 | It can be very difficult to be sure of why a hoard of objects was buried in the ground . |
| 27 | In the absence of a greater range of evidence it is difficult to be certain about how representative the Sutton Hoo mound 1 boat is of the range of ship types . |
| 28 | Vic 's easy manner made it difficult to be annoyed for long . |
| 29 | And when you do n't know where you 're coming from , it 's more difficult to be clear about where you 're going . |
| 30 | A pair of spectacles and 40s. worth of books set the late ( graduate ) vicar of Whitchurch somewhat apart from his parishioners , who probably did not appreciate his erudition , yet his private collection was certain to be innocent of both profound and frivolous titles , limited to practical works such as collections of sermons , primers of divinity and apologetics , plus , naturally , his Breviary , perhaps too a copy of the Vulgate , or Latin scriptures . |