Example sentences of "be [adj] [prep] be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're supposed to be in bloody trade . " |
| 2 | 4.32 Employees must no go unaccompanied into a situation where they are likely to be at personal risk . |
| 3 | This is a bit like asking ‘ which is the more useful , a washing machine or freezer ? ’ because both qualifications are likely to be of lasting value . |
| 4 | In any situation of conflict , whether serious or trivial , the complexities of our inner self are likely to be of equal , if not more significance , than the role of the other party . |
| 5 | However , it is also clear that since inflammatory bowel disease is a process that involves several agonists , only drugs which affect most or all of the agonists are likely to be of proven benefit . |
| 6 | But despite this , Foucault 's essay on The History of Sexuality does offer a most stimulating challenge to traditional historical accounts , partly because of its undermining of conventional approaches , partly because it is an aspect of a much wider intellectual effort , whose implications are likely to be of major importance . |
| 7 | True enough , and , despite the dissimilarities among families , the impressions taken from each matrix are likely to be of similar depth and importance . |
| 8 | These developments in cost-accounting are likely to be of central importance in resource-allocation decisions for the foreseeable future . |
| 9 | These are likely to be of great importance when prescribing the remedy for a patient . |
| 10 | However , there are some products which are likely to be of particular interest to older people and some areas where mechanisms are needed to ensure they get a fair deal . |
| 11 | Departments have agreed to notify the local planning authority of development proposals which are likely to be of special concern to the authority or to the public ; for example where there could be a very substantial effect on the character of a conservation area , or where there could be a significant planning impact , visually or otherwise , beyond the department 's own site . |
| 12 | In the reports of social workers , psychiatrists or teachers , such global terms can hardly be avoided ; for them the labels and importance attached by research workers to facets of parental behaviour are likely to be of considerable use . |
| 13 | They conclude that technicians are likely to be in increased demand for test and inspection work as more and more industries incorporate sophisticated electronics in their equipment . |
| 14 | Craft workers are likely to be in increased demand , at least over the next several years , to carry out maintenance on advanced equipment such as CNC machine tools and robots , though craft work is likely to change its context . |
| 15 | With all three weakened by scandal , these virtues are likely to be in short supply . |
| 16 | The most immediate practical benefits are likely to be in foreign language teaching , where clear statements of the rules of gender would be of great value . |
| 17 | Therefore , vaccines that present HIV-1 envelope glycoproteins ( gp120 or gp 160 ) in their native form would be unlikely to be of clinical benefit to an HIV-infected individual . |
| 18 | I thought vets were supposed to be on twenty-four-hour call . ’ |
| 19 | In America , they made six hundred prints of the film and decided these bits were supposed to be in black-and-white and they could fix it ! |
| 20 | In this respect England 's relations with Brittany were likely to be of great importance , not only for the positive reason that a friendly duke of Brittany would allow the use of his duchy as a stepping-off place into the mainland , but for the negative one that a hostile duke might cause untold harm to English maritime interests , both military and commercial , by failing to stop the activities of Breton pirates and privateers whose ships gave much trouble at sea , as complaints in Parliament and in some of the political literature of the time , notably The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye , testify . |
| 21 | Moreover , research rather suggested that the former groups mounted one-off campaigns targeted at parliament or public opinion , whereas the latter groups ( and especially the trade unions and employers associations ) were of greater power and were likely to be in regular day-to-day contact with ministers , government , and the permanent administrative side of the state machine . |
| 22 | Helpful though such measures were likely to be in domestic terms , the simultaneous resignation of the Soviet Chief of Staff suggested that not all powerful institutional interests had been persuaded of their necessity . |
| 23 | They were unlikely to be in real danger , the Whistler stalked at night , not in broad daylight , and no vehicle had passed him since he left the coastal road . |
| 24 | None had been seen at that time in the Harwell experiments that preceded ZETA but Kurchatov announced that the Soviets were seeing some neutrons which were due to fusion occurring , but were unlikely to be from thermonuclear fusion because the rate of their production did not vary with current in the expected way . |
| 25 | At the design stage it is easy to be over ambitious . |
| 26 | In the case of minority holdings of less than 25% , the dividend yield is likely to be of primary consideration . |
| 27 | As we move across the map the members of a particular community , " A " , will perceive their relationship to the members of another community , " B " , to be either that of kinsmen or of non-kinsmen and the distinction is likely to be of critical " political " importance . |
| 28 | The staff of a school are its most important resource and their commitment to decisions made is likely to be of major significance in ensuring effective implementation . |
| 29 | Such an intellectual process is likely to be of great value in business organisations which have a tendency to be long on action , but short on thought ! |
| 30 | The number of stray cats is harder to identify — and unknown — but the figure is likely to be of similar proportion . |