Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [adj] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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1 | This can be a critically important action as the human memory is notoriously selective , and loose-leaf and logbook notes are prone to be separated from the project plan . |
2 | The top notes are apt to be ‘ screamy ’ and too shrill for anything but rather grotesque effects . |
3 | The third quarter 1991 bad debts are likely to be the worst ever , according to Europe 's largest trade credit insurance broker , The Credit Insurance Association Ltd . |
4 | Additional more powerful satellites are due to be launched in 1993 and 1996 . |
5 | The 1992 accounts are due to be published shortly , and the company has agreed to ‘ provide fuller information about a number of accounting policies ’ , including the background and reasons for a transfer to reserves and the non-depreciation of properties described as leasehold and lease rentals . |
6 | Yet another way in which not having a bank account makes people more likely to fall into the non-chooser group , the automatic users of one or other type of credit , is that people without bank accounts are likely to be paid weekly , in cash . |
7 | Sales and investments are likely to be less affected than in a chapter 11 filing . |
8 | An aggregate approach may not be too unrealistic given that assessments of the returns on overseas bond and equity investments are likely to be dominated by exchange rate expectations . |
9 | In the absence of scale economy benefits , horizontal mergers are likely to be socially undesirable . |
10 | The conclusion we reach , which we share with Wood , is that ‘ the quest for general trends , such as progressive deskilling of the work force , or general conclusions about the impact of new technologies are likely to be both theoretically and practically in vain ’ and that ‘ to incorporate worker resistance , labour and product markets and extra-economic factors involves more than simply extending one 's analysis ; it amounts to a theoretical reconsideration ’ ( Wood 1982 , 18 , 22 ) . |
11 | It is just that the type of early-warning signals just discussed will indicate whether the expected improvement in competitive strength and the projected cash flows are likely to be achievable . |
12 | Accordingly we can identify two necessary conditions which must be fulfilled before macroeconomic policies are likely to be successful : |
13 | In Statement B this story line is applied to the police force to suggest that the young white working-class men who enter the force are to a large extent preselected , and irrespective of recruitment and training policies are likely to be authoritarian personality types who flourish in a para-military environment and ‘ have a hang-up about race ’ . |
14 | Some of the UK government 's key environmental policies are likely to be undermined by a lack of resources , according to an internal Environment Department report which was leaked to the press . |
15 | These oolites are likely to be similar to those present in Rustenburg-l , where a thin unit of cross-bedded oolitic grainstones about 2 m in thickness , is present at the base of the platform sequence ( Fig. 28 ) . |
16 | The hospital is asking GPs only to send in only urgent cases … further operations are likely to be cancelled over the next few days |
17 | By contrast , perceptions that verge on being attitudes are likely to be more resistant to change and more dependent upon individuals ' partisan backgrounds — their pre-existing sense of party identification , and their use of partisan news sources such as right-wing ( or leftwing ) papers . |
18 | Where an owner continues to be centrally involved and lives in the house or on the estate , attitudes are likely to be positive and the house opened in a lively fashion . |
19 | Nonindividualistic conceptions are likely to be among the expensive tastes since their realization depends on the cooperation of others , and they will take some convincing to come round to the agent 's point of view . |
20 | Automatic negotiating rights are not guaranteed , but employers are likely to be angry . |
21 | Again , unions in conjunction with employers are likely to be able to find answers to the access-to-cash problem . |
22 | But this is a very expensive way of preserving sound , only tolerable when hundreds of copies are likely to be sold to cover the costs . |
23 | When the cause of deafness is not solely in the outer and/or middle ear , high frequencies are likely to be affected . |
24 | Adverts are supposed to be showing you real life , but where 's my life and my experiences ? |
25 | The cases are due to be heard together before a judge in London without a jury , in January . |
26 | Plausible cases are likely to be extremely rare in practice . |
27 | These difficult cases are likely to be crucially important in terms of their landscape impact — as in the scheme to improve 125 hectares of mountain land near the summit of Fan Frynych in the Brecon Beacons . |
28 | Damages in fatal accident cases are likely to be substantial and should not be underestimated . |
29 | Presented with such explicitly racist material and asked to make intellectual sense of it , most people 's reactions are likely to be anchored to positions in which they have an emotional and material stake . |
30 | While the children sent by the courts are likely to be , on average , more disturbed than those received under section 2 , the differences are not too noticeable . |