Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] be [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do believe fervently that no man is fit to be any man 's master ; that an uncontrolled capacity to amass wealth is thoroughly wrong ; that the class system , particularly in relation to education , needs urgent change ; that it is right and proper and sensible to be an enthusiastic European and that much nonsense is talked about the alleged loss of sovereignty . |
| 2 | It was hard to be all sweetness and light when she was desperately trying to catch up with her own quarry before McKenna did . |
| 3 | For example there are supposed to be many wives who would have left their husbands long ago if they had been able to work out how to tell him they were going . |
| 4 | Well , considering there 's not supposed to be any V A T on kid 's things , I mean |
| 5 | I 'd say there was n't supposed to be any reason to think Harry had gone to Sam 's boatyard . |
| 6 | And what , they 're supposed to be half brothers are they ? |
| 7 | I reminded her about the things she said last night — the things you apparently overheard , so you say — and she now realises she was quite wrong to say those things , even if they were supposed to be some kind of joke … and … she is sorry for saying them because she now understands that those careless words of hers were what basically caused the misunderstanding . ’ |
| 8 | Was that supposed to be some kind of sexual allusion ? |
| 9 | ‘ Is that supposed to be some consolation ? ’ asked Connon . |
| 10 | The cost of making a mistake , however , is likely to be many times greater |
| 11 | As we show in Part Two , there are likely to be many cases where we need to consider jointly two or more objectives . |
| 12 | That means that in order to stimulate over a large area the intensity of stimulation at the input site is likely to be many orders of magnitudes in excess of normal levels of electrical or chemical activity . |
| 13 | A vaccine against HIV is still likely to be many years away but Dr Michael Murphey-Corb , who led the Tulane team , said he hoped ‘ to see something in five years . ’ |
| 14 | In the Antarctic stratosphere , the lifetime is likely to be many weeks . |
| 15 | There are also likely to be few time-cues from animals or other humans — such as tourists . |
| 16 | Political correspondence can be a vital source for political history , but for specifically sociological purposes there are likely to be few types of correspondence these days which would be easily available and which would be of value for social research . |
| 17 | The majority of the rest being small stations where there are likely to be few suspects . |
| 18 | From this perspective , 1993 looks likely to be another year of substantial audit fee cuts . |
| 19 | But whether artificial intelligence turns out to be good enough for the movie makers is likely to be another matter . |
| 20 | To reach such a target audience we probably need , at the minimum , ( a ) about two pages of description by the authors of each unit , telling the user how to load the program , how to drive it , and its limitations both educationally and technically this information could be included on the disc or tape that loads the program ( b ) some incentive to the programmer to document the program to this level , perhaps through its resulting acceptance into a ‘ library ’ ( c ) assurance from those receiving the program that they will be prepared to deal with the problems that such draft programs impose — this implies that they must be fairly competent users of their computer system : they could not expect to get software support from the author , who is likely to be another teacher whose time is fully occupied ( d ) some financial and organizational support for the distribution of programs , even if only on a cooperative basis ( e ) that users of such programs should undertake to report to the authors ( and to the library ? ) on the usefulness of each program received , and if they wish , to make recommendations for improvement . |
| 21 | ‘ The end result is likely to be fewer farms and fewer farmers able to generate an economically and socially acceptable income from farm production alone , ’ says the report , Unemployment in Europe . |
| 22 | And if that does n't work there are likely to be more meetings all week . |
| 23 | CAPRICORN There 's likely to be more contact from family members this week , as you feel the urge to be closer to home . |
| 24 | But there are likely to be more upsets before it is recognised by investors . |
| 25 | When embalming a case which has been the subject of a post-mortem examination , there is likely to be more opportunity for formaldehyde to enter the atmosphere but care is taken to minimise this . |
| 26 | There are likely to be more opportunities for prevention if the social factors themselves are of causal significance in clinical depression , rather than the person 's distorted interpretation of their threatfulness . |
| 27 | There was likely to be more interest in a member of the family who seemed to have come to the boil than in Sara who would cost time and patience to bring to blood heat . |
| 28 | Where a high level of uniformity is required throughout the organisation , and where effective coordination of different parts of the organisation is essential , there is likely to be more centralisation of authority . |
| 29 | The implication is that some Upper Carboniferous rocks of the foreland are still in the oil window , and that even if fairly high regional palaeogeothermal gradients are assumed , the gas preservation limit is likely to be several kilometres deep where the high-volatile coals occur . |
| 30 | With the back tyre likely to be several inches in the air , there 's no braking power to be gained there . |