Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [adj] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every weekend now , tens of thousands , perhaps hundreds of thousands of people are taking tablets containing unknown substances , and God alone knows what the real long-term consequences of that are likely to be . |
| 2 | Unemployment locks the underclass into place in three ways : it is more likely to hit those who are poor ; the poorest are likely to be unemployed longest ; and , in addition , instead of compensating the unemployed , the welfare state penalizes them more than any other group on welfare . |
| 3 | In , if the skills of MAS are likely to be required by the client in the later stages of the acquisition process , MAS should be included at the earliest possible opportunity ( if not already the main client contact ) . |
| 4 | Furthermore , peripherals used by each are likely to be drawn together into a single , compatible product line and Fujitsu is expected to take over more responsibility for the development of ICL and Amdahl 's mainframe CPU architectures . |
| 5 | The turbo diesels in the XM and 605 are due to be uprated from 110 to 130bhp . |
| 6 | While this was not a major consideration when the trial was originally planned the considerable advances in recent years have meant that the significant proportion of the patients recruited into studies such as this are likely to be potential transplant recipients . |
| 7 | In short , of the rules and generalisations that could be made about conveying attitudes through intonation , those which are not actually wrong are likely to be too trivial to be worth learning . |
| 8 | The word here — many talk but few are willing to be quoted — is that Nelson Mandela will be the last to go , and that he is working closely with the government in arranging a timetable for the releases . |
| 9 | Few are likely to be enthusiastic about taking up the burdens of having to compete . |
| 10 | The British are supposed to be a staid , shy , retiring lot — and especially when they 're driving . |
| 11 | Even so , potential examiners are known qualities : some are likely to be severe , some lenient , and the experienced and canny supervisor or head of department is likely to make nominations accordingly . |
| 12 | Some are likely to be baby floribundas , others are perfect scaled-down hybrid teas . |
| 13 | The printed form N 117 is usually used , and some are likely to be on the judges " table " . |
| 14 | The Cornish are fortunate to be able to paint their regional discontents in the attractive colours of Celtic tradition , which makes them so much more visible , even though it leads some of them to reinvent a language not spoken for 200 years , and even though the only popular public tradition with genuine roots in the country is Wesleyan Methodism . |
| 15 | I think only those who are unemployed are likely to be attracted by that , and I 'm not sure how many we 've got . |
| 16 | Most of the registered unemployed are unlikely to be interested in temporary jobs lasting only a few days . |
| 17 | Those few were likely to be surgeons , dentists , accountants and solicitors in private practice , certainly not schoolmasters , university lecturers , architects in public service ( most of them ) or vets . |
| 18 | He was determined to regain what his father had lost , and raise the French monarchy from its abasement after Poitiers ; but his methods were to be diplomacy , subversion , and limited campaigns rather than a great battle in which , as he appreciated , the French were liable to be defeated yet again . |
| 19 | The French were supposed to be ‘ liberating' ’ Ireland , that 's the official story . ’ |
| 20 | She tells how the women came to the factory beaten by their husbands and how some were scared to be downgraded in their work because they feared a beating from husbands who would think that they were holding some money back . |
| 21 | This is far from being an indication of cultural superiority , but is due to the fact that English manufacturers extract the essential oil through their milling process . ’ |
| 22 | However , the disruptions in chronology and the mixture of writings suggest that this is far from being a reactionary return to a more traditional form ; indeed , these two works are grouped under the title Romanesques , further contravening the reader 's conventional expectations of an autobiography as a revelation of some truth . |
| 23 | But our review of the literature on environmental scanning contained in Appendix B has shown that all too frequently this is far from being true . |
| 24 | But this is far from being the case here . |
| 25 | At £95 this is far from being a cheap fleece . |
| 26 | While the Court of Appeal is ultimately responsible for establishing the tariff , this is far from being a cut-and-dried list of appropriate penalties . |
| 27 | This is certain to be opposed vigorously by freight transport organisations which argue that road taxes are already high in this country . |
| 28 | Now suppose that in locality R revenue can be raised from resource taxes t r ( e.g. taxes on land ) and that this is available to be shared by the resident population l r In S ( now the ‘ poor ’ state ) there is no such revenue . |
| 29 | The problem is how this is best to be managed without jeopardizing current advantages . |
| 30 | This is due to be finished this year and has cost nearly £300 million . |