Example sentences of "and [am/are] [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sealink Stena Line is an enthusiastic sponsor of the museum 's new souvenir guide book and are delighted to be supporters of such an impressive collection of outdoor folk and transport exhibits . |
| 2 | We will deal with everyone in due course and are delighted to be deluged . |
| 3 | The planned Intel Corp Pentium desktop machines will come in 60MHz and 66MHz configurations and are due to be available the end of the third quarter . |
| 4 | Many people find the night-time skyline of a big city very exciting : they enjoy surveying it , and are content to be surrounded by it . |
| 5 | The stress on Levi 's insensitivity to religion is allowed to suggest that all Jews are religious , and there are readers for whom this might signal the corollary that all Jews are Zionists , and are likely to be supporters of Israeli government policy . |
| 6 | Soldiers never like being asked to do somebody else 's dirty work , especially if they have been called off leave to do it , and are likely to be accused of strike breaking in the process . |
| 7 | True records of the dolphin kills by this sector of the industry can therefore only be estimated , and are likely to be very conservative . |
| 8 | Third degree burns involve the full thickness of the skin and are likely to be less tender than first or second degree burns so do not be fooled into underestimating the severity of a serious burn by the lack of pain . |
| 9 | As you can see , in example b ) the customers enter at the entrance point , but in order to reach the exit point they have to walk past almost all the goods on offer — and are likely to be tempted to buy more . |
| 10 | The vehicles required to meet the 1998 California deadline can certainly be made available and are likely to be a mix of both battery and hybrid vehicles . |
| 11 | These will tend to be more stable than smaller tanks in water terms , less affected by external temperature changes , will enable you to keep a wider range of fish , and are likely to be more useful as your interests in the hobby develops into keeping larger fish or into breeding projects . |
| 12 | In Africa the press , like television , tends to serve the political , social and economic élite : these are the people who can read , can afford to buy a newspaper and are likely to be living where newspapers can be bought . |
| 13 | Every professional experimental researcher , in whatever field , has their own private list of fluky data , things that did n't happen quite in accord with expectations and are likely to be due to uncontrolled circumstances — such as the dirty test tube — rather than signalling a major discovery . |
| 14 | They may suffer long delays in reaching hospital and are likely to be treated by junior doctors , says a survey of 15,000 victims , carried out at 33 hospitals . |
| 15 | Thus , the achievements of white working class pupils — children whose parents are manual workers — are much closer to those of Afro-Caribbean pupils , and it is arguable that the findings of Rampton , Swann and similar investigations can be explained by the fact that a larger proportion of Afro-Caribbeans than whites are working class , and are likely to be earning less and living in worse housing than whites , as documented earlier in this chapter ( Brown , 1984 ; Reeves and Chevannes , 1981 ) . |
| 16 | Such technologies are becoming available not only for the Macintosh , but also for Microsoft Corp Windows , and are likely to be in evidence at UniForum this week . |
| 17 | Such technologies are becoming available not only for the Macintosh , but also for Microsoft Windows , and are likely to be in evidence at UniForum this week . |
| 18 | Genuine old rocking horses of real quality are increasingly hard to find and are likely to be very expensive , as are the products of some of the very fine contemporary rocking horse makers who work in various parts of the country . |
| 19 | Other techniques , such as echo-sounding and soil scanning radar , are currently being developed , and are likely to be used more and more in the future for accurate location and surveying of sites . |
| 20 | Dynamic displays such as this make sites and finds more comprehensible , and are likely to be increasingly used at excavation sites and within museums in the future . |
| 21 | In brief , the available evidence suggests that branch plants are likely to provide some unskilled but few managerial jobs , and are likely to be less stable employers , although the surviving firms may have greater growth potential than their indigenous counterparts . |
| 22 | The pair gained rave reviews for their Belfast concert earlier this week and are likely to be just as good tomorrow night . |
| 23 | Where risks are present they will tend to be single and are likely to be shared by other stimuli ( e.g. the driver going too fast ) . |
| 24 | Governments have to govern people , and not only do their policies have a direct impact on the population at large , and are likely to be shaped to some degree by an awareness of what that impact might be , but policies can also be a response to pressures or problems that emerge out of society . |
| 25 | Our campaign has consistently urged the Government to undertake a full and proper defence review that would determine what our commitments are , and are likely to be , and what level of resource needs to be made available to meet them — whether from the Army , Navy or Air Force . |
| 26 | Five cosmids , which correspond to very strong signals , have been found positive for minisatellites or CpG rich trinucleotide repeats and are likely to be nonspecific . |
| 27 | They say that a weak , non-fighting force can be effective when the combatants want an excuse to stop shooting at each other and are glad to be separated by a symbolic line of bright blue berets . |
| 28 | People wish to emulate their leader and are willing to be controlled in the ‘ process . |
| 29 | Does she know that you 've been unfaithful to her once already and are willing to be again — except that this time I 'm not co-operating ? |
| 30 | People know the evidence of their pockets and are unlikely to be easily persauded that Mrs Thatcher 's Britain has been , or has yet become , the economic disaster area which Mr Kinnock depicted . |