Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] [adj] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jonathan Davies and Barry Williams have been ruled out but Paul Moriarty and Kevin Ellis are likely to be fit . |
| 2 | Hearn and Doyle are certain to be vocal at the WPBSA 's annual general meeting at Bristol on December 29 . |
| 3 | Secondly , provisional arrangements made for Spain and Portugal are likely to be succeeded by the full disipline of the budget . |
| 4 | The main corollary to this is that , while CSPs in general are gradual in their strength ( depending on how fast or carefully one speaks ) , socially differentiated CSPs are likely to be discrete . |
| 5 | TAIWAN are likely to be the cannon-fodder of the pool , although their national side 's rapid development programme , modelled on the New Zealand forward technique , should have trickled down to the students , ensuring that the defeats are n't too heavy . |
| 6 | Even so , exotica such as lead-only Porsche 911s and Ferraris are unlikely to be part of this trend , so no bargains there I 'm afraid . |
| 7 | The meeting approved the creation of a US$10,000 million development fund for Arab countries which had supported the coalition in the Gulf war and which had suffered economic damage from the war ; Egypt and Syria were likely to be the main beneficiaries . |
| 8 | In the story , Cain and Abel were supposed to be the sons of Adam and Eve . |
| 9 | And even though many schools and school authorities in the United States were slow to be convinced , the 19605 was the decade of the famous Knapp School Libraries Project , of federal grants for multi-media developments under the Elementary and Secondary Education Acts , and of the development of the electronic study carrel and dial-access . |
| 10 | And Angèle Didier is supposed to be an opera singer , an experienced woman of the world . |
| 11 | The UN , trawling the net wide , has not yet found the troops it wants for Mozambique , which in contrast to Angola is supposed to be a model operation , or the mechanised battalion it has been told to send to the Kuwait-Iraq border . |
| 12 | One of the last television appearances of comedian Frankie Howerd is due to be screened this weekend . |
| 13 | Moira McVitie is supposed to be intelligent as well . |
| 14 | Because if you eat a regular high carbohydrate diet then your BMR is likely to be higher than a person eating a high fat diet . |
| 15 | Western politicians have repeatedly made it clear that the PLO is unlikely to be allowed to represent Palestinian interests because of its supposed support for the Saddam Hussein regime . |
| 16 | The moment I heard there were rumours that the PLO is willing to be more moderate , that 's when I went on the first plane and went to Tunis . |
| 17 | Yet while InterCity is supposed to be one business , offering consistent standards throughout Britain , many regional differences in what the traveller actually experiences die slowly . |
| 18 | AFTER : Proud Steven is happy to be growing up |
| 19 | Well er , the Tuesday is supposed to be furniture restoration , that 's what it 's been |
| 20 | He changed his assessment in a Jan. 10 letter to the committee 's chairman Les Aspin , however , with the judgment that " the ability of Iraqi ground forces to defend Kuwait is unlikely to be substantially eroded over the next six to 12 months " and that " economic hardship alone is unlikely to compel Saddam to retreat " within that time . |
| 21 | Improv is likely to be migrated to the Windows PC environment shortly , says Mr Ingram . |
| 22 | The targets set by the School Management Task Force are realistic as part of large-scale management , and the detailed approach of the SDPP is likely to be more immediately valuable to schools . |
| 23 | THOUGH not one to blow his own trumpet , 24-year-old Lee Rigg was delighted to be awarded one of the top brass band honours in Britain in December . |
| 24 | Meredith was relieved to be spared the embarrassment of unavoidable eavesdropping . |
| 25 | Ceauşescu was anxious to be the broker . |
| 26 | Even after the success of Far From the Madding Crowd Hardy was reluctant to be regarded solely as a writer of rural stories . |
| 27 | Gotti was due to be sentenced on June 23 , and faced a maximum of life imprisonment . |
| 28 | Everyone knows the fame of the Pineapple Dance Centre in Covent Garden and Lucy was amazed to be ‘ hired ’ . |
| 29 | Elisa was surprised to be addressed in English and remarked upon this . |
| 30 | Miss Braithwaite expressed her appreciation of all the hard work undertaken by the retiring Vice-Chairman , Mrs. Ann McMillan and said how much she regretted that Ann was unable to be present at the meeting because of her admission to hospital . |