Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [adj] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , additional genetic or environmental factors leading to more severely impaired β cell function are likely to be necessary for the development of non-insulin dependent diabetes . |
| 2 | The laws of physics are supposed to be true all over the accessible universe . |
| 3 | The Football Association are sure to be unswayed by this set-back , as they were by the failure to score in the opening European championship games against Denmark and France and then by the defeat by Sweden . |
| 4 | Divisional Manager , Brian Walker ( pictured left ) said : ‘ Southern Electric are delighted to be able to help young people , who are striving to overcome disabilities and to gain their independence . |
| 5 | After nomination the candidate is entitled to be present at the issue of postal ballot papers , to visit the polling stations and the candidate , the candidate 's spouse ( if any ) , and ( except in parish or community elections ) the candidate 's election agent are entitled to be present at the count together with a number of counting agents . |
| 6 | The initial motivations that lead a previously ‘ honest ’ businessman to commit a long-firm fraud are liable to be financial , perhaps a temporary shortage of money . |
| 7 | The relevant factors to consider in investment appraisal are likely to be different for each product and can be determined only through a thorough understanding of the company 's and industry 's actual and specific situation . |
| 8 | That is , it is probably undesirable for co-operative R&D ventures to include all producers of a competing range of products , and two or more co-operative projects serving the same downstream industry are likely to be preferable to a single , all-inclusive project . |
| 9 | In the types of premises under consideration , having accepted that conventional methods of fire fighting are likely to be ineffective , the success of controlling fire may perhaps no longer be judged in terms of cubic capacity alone . |
| 10 | Such a bouncing of complicity and distance is a characteristic form of engagement in generically mixed forms such as Hill Street Blues , St. Elsewhere or thirtysomething : a form of engagement in which identification and recognition are liable to be wrong-footed at any moment by ironic distance , and , at the same time , ironic distance is liable to be caught out by sudden empathetic recognition . |
| 11 | They landed at 0600 hours , unopposed by a German garrison satiated on Christmas fare ; the commando planners picking times for a strike force to land when the enemy were likely to be off-guard . |
| 12 | ( This remedy is unlikely to be available at your local stockists — see Remedies and Pharmacies on page 140 ) . |
| 13 | At the time of our patient 's presentation a survey of published works did not show any cases with both conditions , but subsequently a single case has been reported , suggesting that any association is likely to be weak . |
| 14 | The less the natural variation within blocks , the greater is the internal validity of the experiment ; the greater the natural variability among blocks , the greater the external validity ( though a single experiment is unlikely to be adequate in this respect ) ; and randomization of the treatments within each block eliminates bias in the comparisons . |
| 15 | Proving that the negligence caused loss is likely to be difficult because of the uncertainty of the results of that independent investigation : and the party making the allegation might have the damages reduced for contributory negligence in not having drawn the matter to the expert 's attention during the course of the reference . |
| 16 | The result is likely to be cultural homogeneity . |
| 17 | so that roof 's supposed to be green then |
| 18 | Your method of narration is likely to be different in a short story . |
| 19 | This is a time when the risk of suicide or another attempt is likely to be high . |
| 20 | Even a playful nip is likely to be painful and may well lead to further displays of such aggression . |
| 21 | Yet realistically this dilemma is likely to be brief as long as employers hold the key to one 's livelihood rather than the professional association . |
| 22 | As suggested in section 10.5 , insertion of resistance in series with the capacitance C limits the closed-loop gain at high frequencies that satisfy and if the closed-loop Bode plot is like that of with an approach to the open-loop plot at 6 dB per octave , the amplifier is likely to be stable . |
| 23 | If a rapid haemodynamically unstable ventricular arrhythmia is induced , or the clinical arrhythmia is induced more easily , then amiodarone therapy is unlikely to be effective and an ICD should be inserted . |
| 24 | If you have solid external walls , adding insulation is likely to be disruptive if tackled from indoors , and expensive if done on the outside . |
| 25 | If you overdo the atmosphere , the effect is likely to be comic rather than dramatic . |
| 26 | If the relationship is real the mechanisms are far from clear , except that the effect is unlikely to be due to external radiation ; the possibility that it could be due to internal contamination by radioactive substances or some other exposure at work should be pursued . |
| 27 | If the association between paternal preconceptual exposure to radiation and childhood leukaemia we found is not a chance finding , the effect is unlikely to be due to paternal exposure to the forms of external penetrating ionising radiation measured by monitoring devices . |
| 28 | If no conditions remain to be fulfilled or consents obtained , completion is likely to be simultaneous , as that avoids the difficulties inherent in carrying on business pending completion . |
| 29 | Any ozone depletion is likely to be small , however , because despite the huge increases in reactive surfaces provided by the Pinatubo aerosol , which resulted in a mid-latitude loss of 20% NO 2 , there was no apparent reduction in the ozone column . |
| 30 | In a review of John Betjeman 's verse-autobiography Summoned by Bells ( 1960 ) , Philip Larkin remarked approvingly that Betjeman , in his triumphant lucidity , had managed to bypass the whole light industry of exegesis ; that Eliot 's famous demand about the need of poets , in the present state of civilisation , to be difficult could only be an ingenious bit of intellectual job-creation , a Modernistic charter to make work for unemployed critics ; and that the tradition of Kipling and A. E. Housman stood ready to hand for instant revival , ever eager to prove that poetry can still enjoy a reading public if only the poet is prepared to be simple , moving and memorable . |