Example sentences of "[noun sg] is [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , apart from legal considerations , in most situations , a seller who does not provide such a remedy is likely to be at a significant commercial disadvantage compared to his competitors , since the giving of such guarantees and warranties has really become standard commercial practice . |
| 2 | ( This remedy is unlikely to be available at your local stockists — see Remedies and Pharmacies on page 140 ) . |
| 3 | At the time of our patient 's presentation a survey of published works did not show any cases with both conditions , but subsequently a single case has been reported , suggesting that any association is likely to be weak . |
| 4 | Despite considerable circumstantial evidence that the causal agent in sarcoidosis is likely to be a mycobacterium no conclusive association that might influence treatment has yet been shown . |
| 5 | Tourist shuttle delivery should commence shortly and all rolling stock is due to be on site by the end of this year . |
| 6 | Results from a family study combining linkage and segregation analyses have indicated that the ACE/ID polymorphism is unlikely to be the locus directly affecting the variability of plasma ACE , but that it could be a marker in strong linkage disequilibrium with this locus . |
| 7 | Which is fine for working with 24 bit images , for instance , but it is in the workaday 16 and 256 colour modes that the card is likely to be used most . |
| 8 | The cross border deal between the Tyne Tees and Yorkshire boards and major stakeholders , means the deal is certain to be approved when shareholders get the chance to vote later this year . |
| 9 | Shareholders nodded-through the acquisition and capital raising on Monday and the deal is due to be completed tomorrow , giving Sunleigh a new role in life as a leisure company . |
| 10 | The deal is supposed to be in a part money and part swap deal bringing John Sheridan back to Elland Road . |
| 11 | Well preserved and attractive , this obviously genuine antique is certain to be of interest to collectors in general . |
| 12 | The less the natural variation within blocks , the greater is the internal validity of the experiment ; the greater the natural variability among blocks , the greater the external validity ( though a single experiment is unlikely to be adequate in this respect ) ; and randomization of the treatments within each block eliminates bias in the comparisons . |
| 13 | The teacher 's perception is likely to be affected by his feelings about the pupil , dented self-confidence through not being able to be a ‘ good enough ’ teacher to him , which a more objective analysis may help to restore . |
| 14 | The four-party Swedish coalition is likely to be split on the issue , with Environment Minister and Centre Party leader Olof Johansson under strong pressure to drop the project . |
| 15 | Certainly our classification policy is very much based on what kind of violence is safe to be seen at various ages . ’ |
| 16 | I find his thesis correct in general , but should like to add that the corruption which amounts to violence is likely to be suppressed in someone who has been trained to be a good little girl and can , as one of his own case histories demonstrates , express itself in other , less overt , terms . |
| 17 | Radical prostatectomy is likely to be one treatment arm . |
| 18 | Many specialist desert plants practise a peculiar form of photosynthesis known as crassulacean acid metabolism ( CAM ) whereby they open their stomata only at night , when water loss is liable to be at a minimum . |
| 19 | In these instances our reaction to this great loss is likely to be much stronger , although it will have the same components of grief as any other unexpected loss . |
| 20 | Proving that the negligence caused loss is likely to be difficult because of the uncertainty of the results of that independent investigation : and the party making the allegation might have the damages reduced for contributory negligence in not having drawn the matter to the expert 's attention during the course of the reference . |
| 21 | Since the two views belong to opposed epistemological theories , neither side is likely to be easily convinced by the other 's arguments . |
| 22 | AIDS is likely to be part of our world for several decades — even if a cure or vaccine can be developed . |
| 23 | As the program time needed to send each step command is likely to be much less than 0.1 ms the processor has spare capacity for other tasks . |
| 24 | He was entirely comfortable with the predictable opinion of the Senior Chief Inspector of Schools who confessed that ‘ I am not much moved by what appears to sacrifice the interests of the few in favour of the many when one result is certain to be that the quality of the person required to fill posts of great importance and of a highly specialized nature is likely to be degraded . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . |
| 26 | But , without other changes , the result is likely to be a ‘ society of barricaded self-defence , and a steady erosion of civil liberties ’ . |
| 27 | Those who take the view that capitalism operates to favour those with capital at the expense of those who merely have their labour to sell tend to believe that when new technology is developed and applied in a basically capitalist society the result is likely to be that jobs are degraded and the quality of working life of those in employment suffers . |
| 28 | The result is likely to be closer relationships between customers and suppliers , which could be good news : Japanese companies such as Honda Motor tend to choose a few preferred suppliers and stick with them , rather than playing the field , and this policy seems to have paid off handsomely . |
| 29 | If you stir enough of them together and stand back for a few hundred million years , the result is likely to be a chemical entity capable of reproducing itself — one of the fundamental differences between living and nonliving material . |
| 30 | The result is likely to be far fewer cautions . |