Example sentences of "[is] [adj] [prep] [be] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I realize I should have told her , should have explained , talked it out with her , but it 's easy to be clever afterwards . |
| 2 | France is not the most hospitable country to foreigners ; it is easy to be lonely here . |
| 3 | Elliot is supposed to be fit again is he not . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | • The patient 's treatment — including artificial feeding , ventilation , etc. — is likely to be continuous rather than rhythmic . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | As an archival medium the videodisc is likely to be unsurpassed both for compactness and durability , as well as cost . |
| 8 | If you overdo the atmosphere , the effect is likely to be comic rather than dramatic . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | Any effect on the number of road accident casualties is likely to be detectable only in the longer term . |
| 12 | Any effect on the number of casualties in this category is likely to be detectable only in the longer term . |
| 13 | Have you any idea when it 's likely to be complete then ? |
| 14 | He really took it out of this photographer , and I can tell you he 's lucky to be alive today . |
| 15 | TINY tot Stuart McKane is lucky to be alive today after a kitchen oven fell and pinned him to the floor . |
| 16 | FIREMEN say a 25-year-old man is lucky to be alive today after escaping an arson attack in Linwood Road , Tranmere . |
| 17 | so that roof 's supposed to be green then |
| 18 | If an innovation does not aim at leadership from the beginning , it is unlikely to be innovative enough . |
| 19 | It is unlikely to be possible easily or cheaply for the Purchaser to come to its own conclusions as to whether or not these Acts apply even if it has access to the contractual document . |
| 20 | In addition , a chemically inactivated virus is unlikely to be safe enough for human use because of concerns that some live viral particles would survive the chemical treatment . |
| 21 | Door Latch is unlikely to be ready yet in spite of the good form of his stable-companions . |
| 22 | Although the suggestion of convergence of the dose response curves for salbutamol is in keeping with an interaction between an agonist and a partial agonist , our data suggest that this interaction is unlikely to be large enough to cause a clinically important reduction in beneficial or adverse effects of salbutamol in patients taking salmeterol . |
| 23 | But he is unlikely to be satisfied forever with the illusion of power . |
| 24 | This development was undoubtedly happening ; but it is important to be clear exactly which features were different from the immediate post-war years and which continued as before . |
| 25 | It is important to be clear then about our reasons for feeling that we had to explain why women have come so far rather than explaining why there had been so few gains . |
| 26 | It is best to be candid also about who one has consulted . |