Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [prep] [be] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Similarly , autobiographies may be idealized , though private letters and diaries are likely to be genuine enough .
2 Tickets are likely to be available only on the day .
3 The hierarchical reductionist , on the other hand , explains a complex entity at any particular level in the hierarchy of organization , in terms of entities only one level down the hierarchy ; entities which , themselves , are likely to be complex enough to need further reducing to their own component parts ; and so on .
4 None of these four biases are likely to be consistent either across the two sexes or across different species : all four are more likely to affect estimates of variation in male success than estimates of variation in female success in polygynous species , though in contrary directions .
5 This last objection can be put in a form applicable to many of the theories discussed in this book : that it may be a mistake to try to define the essential features of literature in absolute and objective terms ; that such definitions as one may devise are likely to be relevant only to certain kinds or certain features of literature , or merely constitute one among a number of possible ways of approaching the subject .
6 This does not mean that I am now suggesting all children should have the chance of performing a scripted play in front of an audience ( indeed I doubt whether many young people are likely to be mature enough to cope with the sophisticated Stanislavsky approach to performance ) .
7 The above effects are likely to be important only at or below the glass transition temperature but they do not seem to have been analysed to date , nor is there yet a molecular interpretation of the frictional forces between chains arising from these and other causes .
8 The laws of physics are supposed to be true all over the accessible universe .
9 I am glad to be free again .
10 These may take the form of problems which even if proved empirically to influence resource needs do so in such particular , local , and sometimes subtle ways that statistical models are unlikely to be sensitive enough to be helpful .
11 The games are addictive , and I carry it whenever I 'm likely to be bored somewhere .
12 ‘ It would be childish to be jealous just because Morrissey holds the focal point , ’ he said .
13 Now I realize I should have told her , should have explained , talked it out with her , but it 's easy to be clever afterwards .
14 France is not the most hospitable country to foreigners ; it is easy to be lonely here .
15 Elliot is supposed to be fit again is he not .
16 Relativism asserts the view that everything given — this word being taken in the widest possible sense — can be grasped only in perspectives ; but this proposition itself is supposed to be valid absolutely , not just for one perspective .
17 • The patient 's treatment — including artificial feeding , ventilation , etc. — is likely to be continuous rather than rhythmic .
18 All these can act against only the aquatic stages , that is to say they are ‘ larvicides ’ and , as I have already emphasised , malaria control by such an attack is likely to be effective only in limited situations .
19 As an archival medium the videodisc is likely to be unsurpassed both for compactness and durability , as well as cost .
20 If you overdo the atmosphere , the effect is likely to be comic rather than dramatic .
21 However , such a model is likely to be satisfactory only where certain key conditions apply — most notably , a small group of consultants , a strong high profile UGM and limited conflict of interests about allocation of resources .
22 In most of these countries ethanol production is likely to be attractive only if based on surplus low-cost biomass materials such as molasses and agricultural crop residues ( or sugar-cane during periods of world sugar surpluses ) .
23 Any effect on the number of road accident casualties is likely to be detectable only in the longer term .
24 Any effect on the number of casualties in this category is likely to be detectable only in the longer term .
25 Have you any idea when it 's likely to be complete then ?
26 He really took it out of this photographer , and I can tell you he 's lucky to be alive today .
27 TINY tot Stuart McKane is lucky to be alive today after a kitchen oven fell and pinned him to the floor .
28 FIREMEN say a 25-year-old man is lucky to be alive today after escaping an arson attack in Linwood Road , Tranmere .
29 so that roof 's supposed to be green then
30 If an innovation does not aim at leadership from the beginning , it is unlikely to be innovative enough .
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