Example sentences of "be [adj] [be] [adj] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think only those who are unemployed are likely to be attracted by that , and I 'm not sure how many we 've got . |
| 2 | The precise nature and length of the transition period to Europe 's monetary unification have yet to be determined while agreement on the political and economic structures required for the Community 's monetary union to be durable is unlikely to be reached before the mid-1990s . |
| 3 | The individual who 's gon na be assertive is likely to be open and honest or likely to admit things that are not so good at honest those , but they 're not gon na necessarily apologise for those , they 're gon na treat those as statements of fact and they 're certainly gon na try and involve other people and actually say what do you think this , what are some ways forward er but it does n't mean that they 're gon na be walked all over and they still stand up for the things that they firmly believe in . |
| 4 | Knowing that other girls would laugh at her , Ann decided that being notorious was preferable to being ridiculous . |
| 5 | Children raised in a middle-class family in which the parents and grandparents were university-educated are likely to be brought up in an environment in which reading and learning are stressed and going to university is encouraged . |
| 6 | Er er th th this is this is supposed to be the er the next stage of the travel agents contacting us . |
| 7 | A horse that is underfed is likely to be dull and lethargic ; whereas an overfed horse which has too little exercise , especially if it is fed grain , is likely to be over-excited and silly . |
| 8 | ‘ You might as well argue that a man who knows that he is mad is less to be feared than a man who believes that he is sane . |