Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | This technique shows the entities most likely to be mentioned by the reader and , hence , indicates which entities predominate for various reasons . |
| 2 | Those authorities most likely to be in need of raising additional finance will be those with large numbers of people on low incomes living within their boundaries . |
| 3 | The two new rules most likely to be modified concern the number of sets of tyres allowed at a grand prix and limitations on the use of spare cars . |
| 4 | The elephant and tapir of Sumatra and Borneo , the rhinoceros of Sumatra and the allied species of Java , the wild cattle of Borneo of the kind long supposed to be peculiar to Java , are now all known to inhabit some part or other of Southern Asia . |
| 5 | Children who travel to school by bus or coach are 20 times less likely to be injured in an accident than when they travel by car . |
| 6 | It would appear , however , that some tumours contain more active product than others ; thus autocrine growth promoting effects that might be attributable to gastrin are in any case only likely to be a property of a subset of tumours . |
| 7 | In cases like this , the solution is to choose for teaching the words most likely to be needed by your pupils . |
| 8 | In other words the candidates most likely to be nominated if they so wish will be those who were nominated and became TDs at the previous general election . |
| 9 | It is the plaintiff 's case that [ the agreement ] created no term sufficiently identifiable to be capable of recognition by the law , and that accordingly no tenancy was created . |
| 10 | Speeches after the ceremony ( although best man/ bride 's father not essential ; speeches more likely to be made by bride and groom themselves — they 're old enough , after all ) . |
| 11 | I will always remember standing one early spring day near the river Severn , arguing with a drainage officer who had previously maintained watercourses now due to be reshaped as part of an expensive new scheme . |
| 12 | Slowing down , she listened in case they were in the middle of a talk too personal to be interrupted ; but it soon became clear that they were discussing the house and the various improvements that might be made once Europe had reached some kind of normality again . |
| 13 | It 's a pleasure too sweet to be enjoyed without a little sharpness in it . |
| 14 | It even has hooliganism and violence and so must run football very close to being an alternative religion . |
| 15 | He 's supported by dozens of nondescript Brits hired , a la Alien , to give theatrical class ( posh accents ) to a script too dire to be spoken in public , with stand-out work in interpreting it anyway by Rachel Ward 's pouting Queen and Marlon 's mumblingly camp Torquemada — wasted when they 're left at Court while Columbus and co cast off for ‘ America ’ . |
| 16 | Smith himself insisted that his other commitments did not interfere with his mathematics , as that demanded a concentration too great to be maintained for more than a few hours a day . |
| 17 | Ultimately , therefore , even if the big publishers had properly understood how software would be used in classrooms , they might well have found the size of the industry too small to be worth their attention and resources . |
| 18 | Then a group of lakes too patterned to be natural . |
| 19 | Some will think him a spiritual butterfly , some an intellectual too ready to be hoodwinked ; but his searching has a definite progress to it , and the heights and depths encountered in this book make it clear that he is getting somewhere , often against his own will and inclination . |
| 20 | It was found to be active but only in concentrations too high to be clinically acceptable . |
| 21 | The marshlands too continued to be drained and enclosed . |
| 22 | All that unpopularity in the country or in the Commons manages to achieve is a revolt by a handful of predictable Tory rebels , a few careful speeches about the need to present policy better , and a vague anxiety about the results of an election not due to be held for years . |
| 23 | We can not expect teachers of science , history of geography to accept that they need to know about , say , the nature of language or the multiplicity of its functions , unless we can show how the need for this knowledge derives — by a chain of relevance sufficiently direct to be convincing — from their own search for greater pedagogic effectiveness . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , visiting hours were an ordeal far more to be dreaded than the occasional unattractive things the doctors or nurses came and did to me . |
| 25 | In this case , the addresser , the message sender , has made unwarranted assumptions about the extent to which the same schematic knowledge is shared by the receiver , and leaves too many gaps , or gaps too broad to be bridged . |
| 26 | For instance past spending behaviour is always likely to be a factor in practice , with departments which have been reliable spenders more likely to be given funds than those who have been allocated money but not spent it . |
| 27 | Prisoners who do not of necessity have to be detained for the protection of the public are in some cases more likely to be made into decent citizens if , before completing the whole of their sentence , they are released under supervision with a liability to recall if they do not behave . |
| 28 | A sociology graduate , whether from a university or polytechnic , is 10 times more likely to be unemployed or in short-term employment than a building , pharmacy or civil engineering graduate . |
| 29 | Suicide was the biggest cause of death , but the homeless are also 150 times more likely to be killed in an assault . |
| 30 | By 17 years of age the children of obese parents are three times more likely to be obese than children of thin parents . |