Example sentences of "[coord] [be] [adj] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( iv ) other methods of obtaining the material have been , or are likely to be unsuccessful . |
| 2 | All postgraduate students in the Faculty of Medicine , whatever their course of study , who are , or are likely to be involved with patients must hold full or limited registration with the General Medical Council and must also be professionally insured . |
| 3 | If your application is made because you are ill or are likely to be ill on polling day you can have your application attested by a doctor , a suitably qualified nurse ( first level nurse trained in general nursing ) or a Christian Science practitioner . |
| 4 | The cumulative effects of section 3(4) ( which provides that no bystander need be or be likely to be present ) and 3(5) ( which says that affray is capable of commission in both public and private places ) complete the march of logic , with the result that if a person assaults another in private ( for example in a domestic assault ) and uses violence ( of such a degree that the other members of the household would be frightened if they were there ) , he is technically guilty of an affray . |
| 5 | She could never face him at the party if she did n't know where she stood — did n't know whether or not he had rejected her apology or was prepared to be friendly . |
| 6 | The planned Intel Corp Pentium desktop machines will come in 60MHz and 66MHz configurations and are due to be available the end of the third quarter . |
| 7 | Every professional experimental researcher , in whatever field , has their own private list of fluky data , things that did n't happen quite in accord with expectations and are likely to be due to uncontrolled circumstances — such as the dirty test tube — rather than signalling a major discovery . |
| 8 | Five cosmids , which correspond to very strong signals , have been found positive for minisatellites or CpG rich trinucleotide repeats and are likely to be nonspecific . |
| 9 | The Society are now having talks with various parties , regarding a suitable site , and are hopeful of being able to start work on the project before the end of the year . |
| 10 | They were the first molluscs ( such as clams , snails and octopuses ) and arthropods ( insects and crabs ) , and were halfway between being single-celled organisms and a complete colony of cells . |
| 11 | The giants washed their breakfasts down with immense tankards of mead and ale and grunted and were inclined to be morose , which seemed to bear out Caspar 's remarks about them not being morning people . |
| 12 | In my view our fellow Members , who lived with us cheek by jowl , were fully aware of my strengths and weaknesses and were unlikely to be impressed by pictures of me on their TV screens dressed in a striped apron and pretending to wash up in the kitchen , as had happened during the Tory leadership election . |
| 13 | It will be writing a native port of SoftPC for the Mac PowerPC and is due to be available when Apple first ships the machines in January or February . |
| 14 | I have no doubt whatever … provided the production is good , I mean provided there are good people to perform it — and that is the case in Munich … but when your music is performed by a mediocre orchestra , it will always be the loser , because it is composed with so much discernment for the various instruments and is far from being commonplace , as , on the whole , Italian music is . |
| 15 | No , it 's permed and is prone to being dry and frizzy so I have to use a lot of conditioner on it . |
| 16 | The aircraft is in very poor condition and is unlikely to be capable of a full restoration . |
| 17 | The employee arrives here unsettled and is unlikely to be able to devote full attention and energies to the assignment . |
| 18 | She has communication difficulties and is unlikely to be able to deal with the matter herself . |
| 19 | The Wimbledon and United States Open champion , who will also miss next week 's grand prix tournament in Sydney and is unlikely to be fit for Tokyo the following week , has now lost any chance of overhauling Ivan Lendl as world No. 1 before the end of the year . |
| 20 | The case , because of its serious nature , is to go before the Crown Court and is likely to be subject to considerable delay due to the inefficiencies of the court listing procedures . |
| 21 | Information about parental employment and monitoring for exposure to ionising radiation was obtained from nuclear industry files and is likely to be complete and unbiased . |
| 22 | ( c ) The material is likely to be of substantial value to the investigation and is likely to be admissible in evidence . |
| 23 | The disadvantages of market-orientation may be that it requires special leadership ( a ‘ bureaucratic ’ management would fail to achieve the required inter-relationships between the organisation and its customers ) and is likely to be costly in terms of staffing and other overheads . |
| 24 | Another in 1687 was less lucky and was obliged to be satisfied with only £50 a week . |
| 25 | These messages I memorized and was surprised to be able to recall and pass them on when I was released , two years later . |
| 26 | I nodded and did n't tell him that , apart from my school days , my working French had been learned in stables , not kitchens , and was likely to be rusty in any case . |
| 27 | They actively seek to expand their influence and would appear to be aiming to cover most of west London … the group can be expected to continue in their attempts to undermine the police , but are unlikely to be successful except in conditions of widespread disorder , general strike , etc , when they might have a potential for destabilisation . ’ |
| 28 | Although Uzell reckons there are no real dominant players , he divides the competition into four main areas : computer vendors , such as IBM Corp and ICL , which he reckons have the geographical scope and financial muscle to deal with the global demands of systems integration projects , but are unlikely to be independent , are often too hardware-oriented and lack the relevant software expertise ; management consultancies , such as Arthur Andersen and Price Waterhouse , which he believes do have the necessary business knowledge , but generally lack implementation skills and have little experience of large-scale project management ; telecommunications suppliers , such as AT&T Co and France Telecom , which again he reckons are too hardware-oriented and short of software skills ; and software houses , such as Electronic Data Systems Corp and Cap Gemini Sogeti SA , which he recommends for their independence and expertise , but feels that few are international enough or have the necessary financial clout to handle large deals . |
| 29 | Of these omissions , one quarter were inflected forms , one quarter were proper nouns , one sixth were hyphenated forms , one twelfth were misspellings and one quarter were not yet resolved , but were likely to be new words occurring since the dictionary was published . |
| 30 | A gaze into a crystal ball showed that the Europeans would out-drive the Americans , would make more greens in regulation but were prone to be wild off the tee . |