Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Despite the essential superficiality of much of this contact , the traditional empathy between the nations has assisted the Japanese to be on good terms with a regime whose political ideology is the antithesis of their own .
2 On some sites , though , the dating may be too imprecise to be of particular value , and may lack direct relationships between the features .
3 At the design stage it is easy to be over ambitious .
4 He opened the door of the basket and Endill climbed out shaking , but glad to be on solid ground .
5 Although the Atlantic dump site was supposed to be of low fishing interest , the Rainbow Warrior had regularly seen fishing boats in the area .
6 I thought vets were supposed to be on twenty-four-hour call . ’
7 It 'll Mercury are only supposed to be for non-local calls .
8 In America , they made six hundred prints of the film and decided these bits were supposed to be in black-and-white and they could fix it !
9 You 're supposed to be in bloody trade . "
10 ‘ She 's really supposed to be in Intensive Care , and we have to check you over soon , as well .
11 On the face of it this may seem a strange tactic for a side who , on paper , possess probably the most lethal front-line in the Premier League , but Graham , still likely to be without ankle-injury victim Paul Merson , is seeking to restore stability to stop the slump .
12 And , the more er , developed countries you get , the less trade there 's likely to be towards developing countries , who actually become more industrialized then the market leaders generally become more .
13 It is more likely to be about sore things from childhood , which we were not allowed properly to experience or mourn : or we may have been too young in emotional or physical development to cope .
14 Arguments are more likely to be over domestic chores and money , than children or sex ( which caused very few rows indeed — only 11% ) .
15 The key battle is likely to be between brilliant Torino player Enzo Scifo and Welsh skipper Barry Horne , who said : ‘ Schifo and Hagi of Romania are probably the best two midfield players in the world .
16 Moreover , industries tend to prefer virgin raw materials : they are more likely to be of consistent quality and in dependable supply .
17 Manchester The city archive has the two following collections likely to be of wide interest : the first deals with women 's suffrage in the north , and the second comprises the documents and papers of William Farmer , an editor of the Victoria County History : Lancashire .
18 However , it is also clear that since inflammatory bowel disease is a process that involves several agonists , only drugs which affect most or all of the agonists are likely to be of proven benefit .
19 ( c ) The material is likely to be of substantial value to the investigation and is likely to be admissible in evidence .
20 ( iii ) the material is likely to be of substantial value to the Investigation .
21 These developments in cost-accounting are likely to be of central importance in resource-allocation decisions for the foreseeable future .
22 This is a bit like asking ‘ which is the more useful , a washing machine or freezer ? ’ because both qualifications are likely to be of lasting value .
23 A familiar name or mark is very influential as many who buy computer hardware and software will look for a product which is likely to be of reasonable quality and will be supported in years to come .
24 In any situation of conflict , whether serious or trivial , the complexities of our inner self are likely to be of equal , if not more significance , than the role of the other party .
25 In the case of minority holdings of less than 25% , the dividend yield is likely to be of primary consideration .
26 The staff of a school are its most important resource and their commitment to decisions made is likely to be of major significance in ensuring effective implementation .
27 But despite this , Foucault 's essay on The History of Sexuality does offer a most stimulating challenge to traditional historical accounts , partly because of its undermining of conventional approaches , partly because it is an aspect of a much wider intellectual effort , whose implications are likely to be of major importance .
28 These are likely to be of great importance when prescribing the remedy for a patient .
29 In this respect England 's relations with Brittany were likely to be of great importance , not only for the positive reason that a friendly duke of Brittany would allow the use of his duchy as a stepping-off place into the mainland , but for the negative one that a hostile duke might cause untold harm to English maritime interests , both military and commercial , by failing to stop the activities of Breton pirates and privateers whose ships gave much trouble at sea , as complaints in Parliament and in some of the political literature of the time , notably The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye , testify .
30 Such an intellectual process is likely to be of great value in business organisations which have a tendency to be long on action , but short on thought !
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