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

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1 It is just that the type of early-warning signals just discussed will indicate whether the expected improvement in competitive strength and the projected cash flows are likely to be achievable .
2 Accordingly we can identify two necessary conditions which must be fulfilled before macroeconomic policies are likely to be successful :
3 In Statement B this story line is applied to the police force to suggest that the young white working-class men who enter the force are to a large extent preselected , and irrespective of recruitment and training policies are likely to be authoritarian personality types who flourish in a para-military environment and ‘ have a hang-up about race ’ .
4 These oolites are likely to be similar to those present in Rustenburg-l , where a thin unit of cross-bedded oolitic grainstones about 2 m in thickness , is present at the base of the platform sequence ( Fig. 28 ) .
5 Where an owner continues to be centrally involved and lives in the house or on the estate , attitudes are likely to be positive and the house opened in a lively fashion .
6 Automatic negotiating rights are not guaranteed , but employers are likely to be angry .
7 Again , unions in conjunction with employers are likely to be able to find answers to the access-to-cash problem .
8 Damages in fatal accident cases are likely to be substantial and should not be underestimated .
9 It suggests that the courts are entitled to be satisfied that certain minimal procedural requirements have been fulfilled but that , thereafter , and provided that they are fulfilled , no objection can be taken to the validity of the Act on grounds of its substantial content .
10 The courts are supposed to be vigilant on behalf of the citizen , and mindful of the liberty to go about one 's lawful business .
11 Here the use of but suggests that the speaker thinks small houses are likely to be dirty .
12 The trouble with the new community councils is that they have largely fallen into the hands of the incoming middle-class whose views are likely to be coincident with the dominant ideology .
13 Employers ' and parents interpretations may diverge even more widely , particularly as the level of detail these groups are likely to be able or willing to handle will be broader than that used by teachers .
14 Although he stops short of locating particular disciplines within this typology , one can see that for example the natural sciences would tend to be hard and pure , engineering would be hard and applied , the arts are likely to be soft , and so on .
15 Contemporary readers are apt to be startled that Swift , an intelligent man , should have said , still less actually believed , anything so silly .
16 Modern readers are likely to be pragmatic ; if a poem like Alice Fell is still convincing as poetry , it matters little what theories it was designed to illustrate ; if it does not succeed , no amount of special pleading can save it .
17 Production organizations are likely to be high structures and R&D departments low structures .
18 If we are indeed a unique species then many of the behaviours which differentiate us from other animals are likely to be due to our genetic make-up rather than to cultural conditioning ; but the difficulty is to know just what these animal-human characteristics might be .
19 In these relationships , both parties are likely to be risk-averse , perhaps employees more so than the manager as they may have a greater proportion of human and other capital tied up in firm-specific assets .
20 Third parties are unlikely to be able to challenge concessions granted to a taxpayer .
21 The United Kingdom 's reserves are likely to be empty in forty years even at the current rate of consumption .
22 We suggest that , whatever the lineage of the TNF α producing cells , the effects of such high local concentrations are likely to be adverse .
23 Efficiency improvements in cars are likely to be responsible for significant conservation of fuel in the next 10 years .
24 Their pregnancies are likely to be troublesome and repetitive .
25 People , however , can only mobilise their adult mature capacities if their peers are prepared to be curious about their social world and its implicit and explicit political structures as these exist in reality and in their minds .
26 Now the only survivors are likely to be serious candidates .
27 Readers — not only teachers and examiners , but readers generally — develop such sophisticated responses to nuances of register that faked styles are likely to be noticeable .
28 Dismissals are likely to be fair provided that the employer can show a good business reason for the move and that adequate consultation took place .
29 The CAB has become quite used to responding to emergencies , so when a bureau is alerted to an impending crisis and the clients are unlikely to be able to visit the bureau , the workers go out to the clients .
30 ‘ Non-German bond yields are unlikely to be able to undercut their DM counterpart , and with plenty of supply on the way , the floor will not come down too quickly . ’
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