Example sentences of "they [be] [adj] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there are , for example , 11,000 accident repairers in the UK , most of them are likely to be small ; one-man operations or not much bigger . |
| 2 | With most major life events , it is likely to be very difficult both to identify people who have recently experienced an event and find out which of them are likely to be susceptible to psychiatric disorder as a consequence . |
| 3 | If we return to the example of our widget-making factory after the introduction of the new production process , with half its workforce put on to the labour market ( or , putting it more bluntly , sacked ) , then many of them are likely to be eligible for unemployment benefit . |
| 4 | Not to imitate it , of course , but to gauge whether any of them are likely to be interested in the kind of work you write . |
| 5 | They are right to be cautious . |
| 6 | They are sure to be stiff after riding for the first time . ’ |
| 7 | COMMENT AND FACT Newspapers should not express comment on conjecture as fact and should distinguish between them , but they are free to be partisan . |
| 8 | They are free to be energetic and enterprising ; they are equally free to be lethargic and dilatory ; the self-respect of the voluntary group depends on the fact that any success it has is due to its own efforts . |
| 9 | European diplomats say that Reginald Bartholomew , the under-secretary of state for security assistance , has warned them against doing anything with the WEU that undermines NATO or freezes out the Americans from security talks at which they think they are entitled to be present . |
| 10 | They are inclined to be retiring , anxious and solitary and are far more likely to be victims of crime than perpetrators . |
| 11 | Being rather young and inexperienced they are inclined to be hot-headed and rather wild , bravely dashing into the jaws of danger where an older warrior might bide his time . |
| 12 | In addition they are apt to be submissive and extremely biddable ; far too willing , also , to withdraw from situations they find difficult . |
| 13 | In whatever format you keep them , the notes you make need to be clear ; if they are not self-explanatory at the time you write them , they are unlikely to be intelligible later , when your memory of working on the particular book or topic has faded . |
| 14 | While they are unlikely to be successful with the woodcut and the copper-plate , they may well achieve their ambition with some other processes . |
| 15 | When their prey species are inactive , cats may as well save energy , because they are unlikely to be successful in hunting , and so they rest and sleep for most of the day . |
| 16 | Anonymous approaches by telephone are now permitted although experience shows that without any forewarning of the approach they are unlikely to be successful ( see chapter 0407 for the detailed rules ) . |
| 17 | Yet it is important to convince management of these gains , otherwise it will be extremely unlikely that the information systems projects will be given the go-ahead , and even if this is achieved , they are unlikely to be successful . |
| 18 | Though they serve as parent representatives they are unlikely to be representative parents typical of the average parent at the school so they need to be encouraged to become involved in as many of the schools activities as possible , not only to gauge parental feelings and attitudes but energetically to engage in identifying ways of improving the school 's performance . |
| 19 | Unless preference shareholders are expressly granted participating rights they are unlikely to be entitled to share in any way in the ‘ equity ’ or to have voting rights except in narrowly prescribed circumstances . |
| 20 | They are unlikely to be embarrassed or contemptuous ; it is a natural human instinct to want to comfort someone who is obviously unhappy . |
| 21 | They are unlikely to be able to give children the stable emotional background , the consistent combination of love and firmness , which are more important than riches . |
| 22 | However , they are unlikely to be able to navigate sufficiently accurately using this cue alone . |
| 23 | This assumes an element of sunkness about location ( which Mathewson and Winter did not ) , so that potential entrants believe they are unlikely to be able to push established firms out of current locations . |
| 24 | However , since central government in Britain is the dominant influence upon the availability of local finance , there is a certain political duplicity here in legislation which requires local agencies to provide benefits that the centre knows they are unlikely to be able to affords . |
| 25 | In any event , whatever the possible therapeutic role of such drugs , they are unlikely to be able to help us to understand the intimate mechanisms of memory . |
| 26 | On the Government 's own figures , 37% of households — between 12m and 14m adults — will potentially be affected by the proposals , either becoming ineligible for legal aid altogether , or being eligible only on payment of a contribution they are unlikely to be able to afford . |
| 27 | But they are unlikely to be able to save more than a dozen or so seats . |
| 28 | They are unlikely to be worried if ‘ boring old history books ’ are discarded . |
| 29 | They are lucky to be alive . ’ |
| 30 | They are supposed to be cheerful and rejoice , when they want to weep with terror and self-pity . |