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

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1 Jonathan Davies and Barry Williams have been ruled out but Paul Moriarty and Kevin Ellis are likely to be fit .
2 Hearn and Doyle are certain to be vocal at the WPBSA 's annual general meeting at Bristol on December 29 .
3 The main corollary to this is that , while CSPs in general are gradual in their strength ( depending on how fast or carefully one speaks ) , socially differentiated CSPs are likely to be discrete .
4 And even though many schools and school authorities in the United States were slow to be convinced , the 19605 was the decade of the famous Knapp School Libraries Project , of federal grants for multi-media developments under the Elementary and Secondary Education Acts , and of the development of the electronic study carrel and dial-access .
5 Moira McVitie is supposed to be intelligent as well .
6 Miss Braithwaite expressed her appreciation of all the hard work undertaken by the retiring Vice-Chairman , Mrs. Ann McMillan and said how much she regretted that Ann was unable to be present at the meeting because of her admission to hospital .
7 Edward was fortunate to be able to do only half his job and escape condemnation .
8 Scorpios are supposed to be possessive , but Adam 's been acting more like a gaoler recently — he hardly allows you out of his sight .
9 Those in favour of a Europe à la Maastricht are right to be concerned .
10 I think we all recognise that traffic issues here in Cambridge are likely to be controversial issues and I think we 'd all equally recognise that er the joint traffic management sub- committee has made considerable progress in recent years in the provision of cycle lanes for example , in dealing with illegal parking er on the city 's road and in improving the environment for pedestrians in our main shopping streets .
11 And yet he is the man who first made this needless quarrel , and now inflames it even when Glendower is disposed to be reasonable .
12 Though living chiefly in England , Morris was proud to be Welsh , admiring the Welsh character and abhorring the English class system .
13 West Indies are likely to be unchanged with sell-out crowds of 24,000 expected for both games .
14 As Speaker O'Neill forcibly pointed out to the newly elected President Carter , tactics that had worked in the relatively sedate politics of Georgia were unlikely to be effective in Washington .
15 Andrew O'Donnell is lucky to be alive .
16 Raima UK is likely to be joint-owned by the two companies , and is said by Systemstar 's David Turley to be ‘ the inevitable consequence of our selling the product for the last five years ’ .
17 WHY EX-NEIGHBOURS STAR KRISTIAN IS HAPPY TO BE SINGLE
18 Arthur is inclined to be delicate and it 's feared he has not long to live .
19 Shelley was unwilling to be alone with Miguel , in case his gentle conversation got through to her , and uncovered her sensitivity that she tried so hard to hide .
20 Tony Benn is right to be dismayed at the talk of ‘ firework displays bigger than the Fourth of July ’ , but he 's wrong to deny that on some level this is what war has become .
21 Thus , Mr Kaifu is likely to be re-elected president of his Liberal Democratic Party next month , and retain the post of prime minister .
22 TINY tot Stuart McKane is lucky to be alive today after a kitchen oven fell and pinned him to the floor .
23 Given his attitude , then , Beveridge was likely to be favourable towards a retirement condition .
24 Perhaps Irina was right to be alarmed .
25 LDP members who lost their seats included Sadanori Yamanaka , former chairman of the party 's research commission on the tax system and architect of the widely hated consumption tax , and Hisao Horinouchi , the former Minister of Agriculture , Forestry and Fisheries , who , during the July 1989 election campaign , had suggested that women were useless in politics and that Doi was unfit to be Prime Minister because she was unmarried and childless [ see p. 36800 ] .
26 I call ‘ conservative ’ , for the purposes of the discussion in this chapter , Christologies which hold the maleness of Christ to be essential to his nature , and the fact that Christ was male to be central to Christianity .
27 THE voters of Langbaurgh are likely to be campaign-weary when the time comes to place their cross .
28 ‘ Cars produced in Europe are supposed to be European cars ’ , Mr Frans Andriessen , the EC 's External Relations Commissioner said .
29 Four year old Craig Cook is lucky to be alive .
30 Mr Clinton is likely to be magnanimous in his attitude to Mr Major .
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