Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [adj] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speak to your vet about castrating the dog since the problems in this case are likely to be resulting from an excess of sexual libido . |
| 2 | Grandiose guarantees of freedom are liable to be contradicted in a couple of discreet subparagraphs , loitering at the end of a page . |
| 3 | The full deal on the EC 's future budget are likely to be unveiled today when the 12 EC heads of state rubber stamp the final package . |
| 4 | The first signs of a blocked drain are likely to be overflowing gullies or manhole covers or a blocked downstairs WC . |
| 5 | Local wildlife and agriculture are likely to be badly affected , environmentalists claim . |
| 6 | The fact that a spoken context of utterance is constructed from a written text emphasises the separation between the real and the fictional enunciations : the referents of the personal pronouns in the text are likely to be perceived as fictive personae , while author and reader are not directly present or involved in the constructed text world . |
| 7 | The random nature of turbulent motion gives a diffusive action ; two fluid particles that happen to be close together at some instant are likely to be much further apart at any later time . |
| 8 | Because there are fewer runs of keys than separate keys , the results of division are likely to be more variable than those of genuine randomization . |
| 9 | Those who go to war with an non-networked PC are likely to be on the wrong side of the line or at least run out of tank spares first . |
| 10 | For that reason , the majority are likely to be studying technical or vocational subjects that equip them with more immediately useful skills . |
| 11 | Not long , I think , now that internal revolution , disruption and secession , external interference , aggression and absorption are likely to be more and more the fate of these often unstable and highly artificial British ex-dominions . |
| 12 | The relationship between the bureau and its sponsors is such that the constraints on budget maximisation are likely to be weaker than the factors operating in its favour . |
| 13 | If the first caveat is that these processes are at a relatively embryonic state , the second caveat is that such movements towards greater institutional self-reflection are liable to be arbitrarily arrested by external pressures . |
| 14 | However , additional genetic or environmental factors leading to more severely impaired β cell function are likely to be necessary for the development of non-insulin dependent diabetes . |
| 15 | The laws of physics are supposed to be true all over the accessible universe . |
| 16 | He and his kind are unlikely to be deterred by exultation . |
| 17 | ( Macaulay 1978:134 ) Problems of this kind are likely to be particularly common in divergent dialect areas where two identifiable and radically different phonologies have in the past influenced each other , later to become an integrated part of the linguistic resources available to the speech community . |
| 18 | As to schools , a DES spokesperson let it be known that such concerns are left to the LEAs and that studies of this kind are likely to be part of religious education . |
| 19 | MEMORIES of the Flying Scotsman are likely to be evoked at Waverley Station today when one of InterCity 's most powerful locomotives , the Class 91 , is named after The Scotsman . |
| 20 | Because deep meditation can be likened in many ways to the altered state of hypnosis , and because those who have a profound interest in such forms of meditation are likely to be on a deliberate spiritual voyage of discovery , they may be able to pass more easily through those barriers of protection normally erected by the subconscious mind . |
| 21 | Conversely , it has also been shown that in the absence of another meal , the previous one may be kept in the stomach for more than twice as long as usual ( Chitty , 1938 ) , presumably with a gradual increase in stomach acidity , and the bones in this instance are likely to be strongly modified or even totally destroyed . |
| 22 | This raises the question of exactly what kinds of experience are likely to be most helpful to a child who is experiencing difficulties with language and communication . |
| 23 | But demands for compensation for damage are likely to be met by Britain under the terms of diplomatic norms . |
| 24 | As the effects of right sided damage are likely to be less immediately troublesome than comparable damage on the left , which frequently causes some degree of aphasia , naturally occurring left hemisphere lesions may well lead the patient to seek medical advice earlier in the disease process than would equal damage at the right side of the brain . |
| 25 | The Football Association are sure to be unswayed by this set-back , as they were by the failure to score in the opening European championship games against Denmark and France and then by the defeat by Sweden . |
| 26 | What main categories of stock are likely to be held by a manufacturing business ? |
| 27 | Windows , MS-DOS , NT , Motif and Mac on the client side and Unix and NT on the server side are likely to be encompassed . |
| 28 | Windows , DOS , NT , Motif and Mac on the client side and Unix and NT on the server side are likely to be encompassed . |
| 29 | This is why in most cases an eyewitness account is more reliable than rumour or hearsay , or why the conclusions of a scientific experiment are likely to be accepted above the claims of a spaced-out acid head . |
| 30 | Horses with the highest self-esteem are likely to be found at the top of their pecking order . |