Example sentences of "to [noun] be [adj] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | References to experts are likely to be seen as occasions of what is known as " qualified privilege " , where a plaintiff can succeed in a defamation action only if he can prove malice on the part of the defendant . |
| 2 | What attracts a nurse or health visitor back to practice is likely to be a combination of intrinsic and extrinsic factors . |
| 3 | The UN , trawling the net wide , has not yet found the troops it wants for Mozambique , which in contrast to Angola is supposed to be a model operation , or the mechanised battalion it has been told to send to the Kuwait-Iraq border . |
| 4 | I find his thesis correct in general , but should like to add that the corruption which amounts to violence is likely to be suppressed in someone who has been trained to be a good little girl and can , as one of his own case histories demonstrates , express itself in other , less overt , terms . |
| 5 | the benefit to B is capable of being consideration for B's promise , so that the promise will be legally binding . |
| 6 | further , modifications to applications are likely to be much easier to make , because files are external to the program . |
| 7 | So the greater the volatility of the underlying share , the greater the time value for any given term to maturity is likely to be . |
| 8 | THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL is supposed to be a neato film . |
| 9 | The costs of going to court are likely to be higher than the value of the contract and the only beneficiaries are typically the lawyers . |
| 10 | On past evidence like the post office closures , changes to education are likely to be draconian . |
| 11 | Alexei thought that marriage to Jehana was likely to be anything but settling , but he did not argue . |
| 12 | Unanswered questions relate to how the complementarity of roles of lay and legal advisers will operate , and when , in the current climate of Lord Chancellor 's concern about legal aid expenditure , resources for an extension of legal aid to tribunals is likely to be available . |
| 13 | Suffice it to say here that a payment which is large in relation to salary is unlikely to be viewed as falling within the first category . |
| 14 | During June each year , visitors to Kilwinning are likely to be perplexed if reference is made to the town 's annual papingo shoot . |
| 15 | A drop in status from paid work to housework is likely to be associated with dissatisfaction in both social classes , and a simple enjoyment of the rewards of an outside job is also , for both middle- and working-class women , a bad omen from the viewpoint of housework satisfaction . |
| 16 | Easy access to drugs is likely to be an important factor for all of those groups , the report says . |
| 17 | Indeed , it is only in such cases that reference to Hansard is likely to be of any assistance to the courts . |
| 18 | Clearly it is of interest to know whether the memories of witnesses to crimes are likely to be altered by the often stressful nature of being a witness to or a victim of a crime . |