Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But now we are happy to be able to announce that , at last , we understand that Scot Rail and British Rail are prepared to remove a seat to allow a wheelchair position in the main carriage even though the wheelchair will be unsecured . |
| 2 | That 's what the representative said from the erm , the car transporter company , was that they they just could n't any longer use British Rail because it , he said although British Rail are willing to compensate , it 's delay of deliveries . |
| 3 | Just yards from the sites earmarked for development , the effects of the recession are clear to see . |
| 4 | The ambiguity and imprecision are necessary to cover the designer . |
| 5 | One leading umpire told me : ‘ At last it seems the Board are ready to back up the umpires in this matter . ’ |
| 6 | Similarly organisations that find themselves in difficulty ; where the profits are not coming through , where there is pressure from shareholders for a significant improvement in profit performance ; here again , the chairman and the Board are likely to reach out to executive search consultants to find them new talent . |
| 7 | One explanation is that the initial infection , acquired from the ingestion of overwintered larvae in May , involves so few worms that neither clinical signs nor immunity is produced ; however , sufficient numbers of larvae are seeded on to the pasture so that by July the numbers of L3 on pasture are sufficient to produce clinical disease . |
| 8 | Even if one accepts that auditors are capable of providing information about business risks that is useful to investors and other parties , it is questionable whether the benefits of extending the auditor 's role in this direction are likely to outweigh the costs . |
| 9 | People offered such a contract are likely to take it , but in supplying it , a firm destroys the ideal industry structure and the market of the incumbent firm . |
| 10 | The express terms contained in a booking contract are likely to relate to the following points : |
| 11 | With IBM UK Ltd taking away its RS/6000s and PS/2s and Digital Equipment UK Ltd ready to end its agreement with ICL Plc 's Technology Plc personal computer and workstation distribution acquisition , there has been much frenzied speculation that Sun Microsystems Inc and Compaq Computer Corp are ready to withdraw their products too , and that ICL has dropped a very big brick on its foot in buying the company . |
| 12 | The forces of reaction which spring up in the face of change are swift to exaggerate these undesirable elements of the situation and to use the arguments which exploitation provides for repression . |
| 13 | What is required is a divisional risk premium based upon a clear specification of the key strategic factors which will determine how the projected returns for this division are likely to vary with movements in the economy as a whole . |
| 14 | Although Marseilles is known to have been shared between two kings for much of this time , details of the division are hard to establish . |
| 15 | The shifts of responsibility are sufficient to justify the claim that the education service being managed at the end of the twentieth century is different from that which was characterized by teacher-based choice , classroom autonomy , voluntary consensus and a supposedly new liberalism forty years earlier . |
| 16 | Gift-giving and Christ-like displays of humility are unlikely to have been the only aspects of religion which Cnut found attractive . |
| 17 | The first drafts of the play are concerned to set the pattern of action and feeling rather than with the exploration of individual characters — this formalistic approach to his task was demonstrated in the preparation of a later drama , when he used a blackboard to set out the play and used symbols to denote his characters . |
| 18 | I find that only eggs on the outside of the mass are likely to hatch , and have developed a way of maximising the hatching rate . |
| 19 | I for my part am unable to accept this submission . |
| 20 | And although the voices from the heartland are reluctant to intervene anywhere , and Congress is at sea , the press keeps up the pressure , pointing to the moral responsibility of solo superpowers to act , and the shame of dragging feet . |
| 21 | PPs at the basic level are unlikely to beat even a moderately good occupational pension scheme , and anyone in a good scheme — especially if it is inflation proofed like those in the public services — would be unwise to move out . |
| 22 | While this remains largely true , there is growing awareness , not confined to elite groups , that decision-makers at the national level are unable to solve pressing domestic problems . |
| 23 | No I 'm not ignoring them but what I 'm saying is that problems that people are genuinely concerned about of dust or noise are unlikely to have an impact at a distance of two miles . |
| 24 | Because greater openness increasingly characterizes many social relationships and because of the other changes taking place within the institution of adoption , open adoption , adoption with contact and even shared parenting are likely to become a more permanent feature within the institution of adoption . |
| 25 | Your supervisor 's approach and enthusiasm are likely to vary according to how motivated and organised you are . |
| 26 | The extent to which deliberate Acts of Parliament are able to contradict Community law is a more vexed question , although it found some answer in the case of the Spanish-owned fishing companies in 1991 . |
| 27 | The Sheikh Mohammed camp are due to make up their minds over 2,000 Guineas plans later this week , and obviously the fluctuating ground conditions will make their decision a hard one . |
| 28 | Perhaps the majority are right to submit themselves to a period of subliminal absorption . |
| 29 | For the population aged 65 + the vast majority are able to cope with outdoor mobility and getting around the house ( see Table 4.8 ) . |
| 30 | By all the rules of the market , Hewlett-Packard Co 's HP 3000 business computer family should be going the way of the Wang Laboratories Inc VS and the Nixdorf Computer AG 8870 , but in defiance of crude market logic , the machine is going from strength to strength , bolstered by the company 's relaxed approach to migration to Unix : because HP 3000 users know they can relatively painlessly convert to Unix any time they choose , the majority are happy to stay right where they are , and the company claims that its high-end HP 3000 system business actually grew more than 50% last year , and the much-derided Posix interface is actually enabling it to pick up applications from Unix . |