Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] to [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The court may , on the application of the office-holder , summon to appear before it — ( a ) any officer of the company , ( b ) any person known or suspected to have in his possession any property of the company or supposed to be indebted to the company , or ( c ) any person whom the court thinks capable of giving information concerning the promotion , formation , business , dealings , affairs or property of the company . |
| 2 | Even if that child 's life is not ‘ normal ’ or likely to be comparable with the lives of other people , there can be no arbitrary rule which condemns certain babies to death because they do not conform to some spurious notion of that which constitutes a satisfying or fulfilling life . |
| 3 | In addition , the analysts we interviewed do not regard the annual report as sufficiently timely or relevant to be critical to investment decisions in an industry in which the potential successes of individual products and the market direction of research and development are more important . |
| 4 | Comedy , in any case , is not necessarily optimistic , and it can tellingly present a tragic world — a point readily overlooked by those who confuse literary forms like tragedy with states of mind like a tragic view of life , as if over-obsequious to a terminology or eager to be confused by one . |
| 5 | He expected to be patronized by Lady Grubb because he came from a lower class , about which he did n't generally care tuppence , but when he saw her effect on Algy he found it more difficult than usual to be ribald about it . |
| 6 | The critic 's standing is thereby reduced , and the description or evaluation of the prize works is less than likely to be uninfluenced by their new position . |
| 7 | What is true is that the absence of , say , its mother 's milk may affect the baby 's medical condition and , to this extent , it misses the milk ( although unable to be aware of the fact ) but not its mother . |
| 8 | I was too young to know that the having to tell myself gave the game away ; and that to be uninhibited about one 's own sexual activities is not the same as being unshockable . |
| 9 | He goes on to suggest that ‘ such relations are pathological cases and likely to be rare in practice ’ . |
| 10 | This may be a reasonable attitude in certain circumstances , e.g. in the denudation of spoil tips or the dissection of incoherent sandstones in the semi-arid western parts of the United States , but it is demonstrably wrong in many areas and likely to be wrong in many others . |
| 11 | To our knowledge , these findings provide the first direct evidence that mesenchymal as well as epithelial cells are involved in T-cell development , and suggest that their involvement is stage-specific and likely to be dependent on short-range or contact-mediated interactions . |
| 12 | This had been ruled out by Truman from the start as far too dangerous and unlikely to be successful in such a vast country , with much of the population hostile . |
| 13 | In many respects , the level of detail appeared too fine for an organisation where most internal communication was of an informal nature , and unlikely to be suitable for enhancement by electronic means . |
| 14 | At the time I did the course I was still very inexperienced , and inclined to be impatient with Dawn 's training . |
| 15 | He was gloomier than ever , and inclined to be angry with me as well . |
| 16 | It is said that they were friendly and ready to be pleased by everything . |
| 17 | One group is developing hardware for a personal computer , sufficiently robust and inexpensive to be useful in the Third World . |
| 18 | NASA says yes , highly probable for a prototype to be flying tests , but doubtful to be operational for two years . |
| 19 | The singer Frankie Vaughan says he 's on the mend , but lucky to be alive after a two-hour emergency operation . |
| 20 | And I was really pushed into dance because they always want as many men or boys as possible to be involved in the dance bits . ’ |
| 21 | None of these hypotheses would seem to contradict what has been said about the management styles and organizational forms identified as likely to be appropriate in each quadrant of the uncertainty map . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | For example , an increase of approximately 100 per cent in vehicle mileage by 2025 is widely acknowledged as likely to be responsible for huge increases in energy consumption and pollution , yet the Department of Transport " is n't interested in energy efficiency " . |