Example sentences of "[be] [adj] to be [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're ashamed to be decent English people , you want us to go crawling and grovelling … . ’ |
| 2 | This means that by 2001 there are likely to be 18,000 extra cases , all aged over 75 . |
| 3 | But if he has to do it all over again , there are likely to be two main changes : a tougher approach from the start and a campaign team which knows what time the Nine O'Clock News starts . |
| 4 | The research aims to examine the potential for maritime arms control measures beyond the draft Strategic Arms 1990s , there are likely to be significant political and international developments ( from budgetary problems in the US to pressure on overseas bases ) which will affect the West 's ability to continue deploying at current levels of naval levels of naval superiority . |
| 5 | Suffice it to say that whatever the Court of Appeal 's finding there are likely to be significant procedural and resource implications as far as the administration of the complaints system is concerned and these will have to be explored during the coming year . |
| 6 | But however good the reviewing agencies are , there are likely to be three major problems about using them . |
| 7 | Alpha customers are likely to be those wanting high performance workstations for demanding applications such as modelling that need a large address space . |
| 8 | That is , technological spillovers are likely to be large relative to negative pecuniary externalities arising from output markets in the case of research activities and relatively small in the case of development activities , suggesting that co-operative R ventures are more likely to increase innovation than co-operative D ventures are . |
| 9 | Droit de suite remains on the Commission 's agenda for 1992 , although in view of its extensive programme in copyright-related matters there are unlikely to be any substantial recommendations or conclusions before next year . |
| 10 | In the area of planning and scheduling there are unlikely to be any legal implications either . |
| 11 | There are unlikely to be any Scottish Conservative Back Benchers either , not only because there are so few of them but because none of them has participated in this debate , apart from a brief intervention by the hon. and learned member for Perth and Kinross ( Sir N. Fairbairn ) that could hardly have been described as serious participation . |
| 12 | We do claim credit for having detected this anger and for having spent a year in working to set up a public meeting at which Thornaby people could express it , but even there we were careful to be non-party political and as a result of that meeting , with the support of Thornaby people and the town 's MP Tim Devlin , we are now carrying the campaign to the proper quarter . |
| 13 | Lyn Nofziger and Lee Atwater took responsibility for stimulating outside pressure on congressmen from fifty-four swing districts — areas of the country where there were likely to be many conservative activists and where the president had run strongly in 1980 . |
| 14 | In the first of what were likely to be several criminal prosecutions resulting from the collapse of the Lincoln , Keating was convicted of misleading small investors over the sale of junk bonds — high-risk , high-yield securities — in American Continental Corp. , of which the Lincoln was a subsidiary . |
| 15 | As it 's possible to be backward compatible but not forward compatible , you ca n't blame the program for being unable to correctly identify a processor introduced after the program was written . |
| 16 | Life on the road is supposed to be one long bout of drink , drugs and AIDS tests , but The Wedding Present have always shunned the much-fabled over indulgence . |
| 17 | That is likely to be British-style first-past-the-post rules for both houses of parliament — the system that 82% of voters backed in the referendum , though their only alternative was the existing system . |
| 18 | Erm but I do feel that there is likely to be some positive spin off for the factories . |
| 19 | Course winner Zalon looks the best bet at Sandown with trainer John Gosden 's horses in top form and there is likely to be some heavy money this morning for Farat in the following race . |
| 20 | They reckon there 's supposed to be one allocated , but no one 's ever seen him . |
| 21 | There are several rooms available for private functions so there 's sure to be one just right for you ! |
| 22 | ‘ There 's sure to be some bruising , is n't there ? ’ |
| 23 | As with the general delivery of curriculum , there is unlikely to be one single effective model . |
| 24 | It will also be recollected that so many qualifications have been placed upon the decision in The Wagon Mound ( No. 1 ) that the concept of foreseeability is now applied in a very broad and liberal manner and there is unlikely to be much practical difference between an inquiry whether a consequence is foreseeable or natural . |
| 25 | There is unlikely to be any external set of circumstances ( other than a revolution ) that would bring about a collapse of this type . |
| 26 | In the light of the above factors and on the assumption that there is unlikely to be any real increase in the dollar price of oil in the medium term , the Board does not believe it to be financially prudent to maintain the 1992 dividend at the same level as that paid in respect of 1991 . |
| 27 | The evidence available suggests that events at the operational level will be fully automatic in normal driving and that there is unlikely to be any episodic memory available of them subsequently unless unusual circumstances occurred to force controlled processes to be used . |
| 28 | Whilst there is unlikely to be any prescriptive model of such a structure , organisational change will be a feature of the 1990s . |
| 29 | There is often a price to be paid for their advantages ( eg , nuclear energy ) , and biotechnology is unlikely to be any different . |
| 30 | WHILE Nick Faldo was stirring himself back to life again in the Freeport-McMoran Classic with a second round of 69 , Sandy Lyle was left contemplating what he felt was likely to be another missed cut in his final preparation for next week 's Masters . |