Example sentences of "what is [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today , Linfield are back in Europe pending what is certain to be a fruitless appeal by Dinamo to UEFA on Monday . |
| 2 | They had been working about a mile along a blind underground roadway , ending at what is due to be a new coal face , when the roof fell in 500 yards behind them . |
| 3 | Spanish manager Jabier Clemente is set to recall some of his more experienced stars for what is sure to be a closely-contested affair . |
| 4 | But we are bound to ask what is supposed to be essential about it . |
| 5 | Finally , at a time when the demand for public accountability has never been greater , it is worth remembering that many museums receive substantial grants towards what is supposed to be their educational provision for the general public . |
| 6 | The Soviets : on Gen Keightley 's right flank , Macmillan goes on : " Marshal Tolbukhin 's armies have spread out into what is supposed to be the British Zone in Austria , including the important city and road centre of Graz . |
| 7 | There is no doubt that a bill or note given in consideration of what is supposed to be a debt is without consideration if it appears that there was a mistake in fact as to the existence of the debt ; Bell v. Gardiner ( 4 M. & Gr. 11 ) ; and , according to the cases of Southall v. Rigg and Forman v. Wright ( 11 C.B. 481 ) , the law is the same if the bill or note is given in consequence of a mistake of law as to the existence of a debt . |
| 8 | On the one hand by 1983 the straight-forward expansionist strategy has been virtually abandoned , but on the other side the French authorities are striving to sustain an active supply-side policy to prevent the fabric of industry being destroyed during what is supposed to be a temporary period of demand restraint caused by international financial problems . |
| 9 | If , for example , a shy child has been very quiet in what is supposed to be a television interview , a positive way of dealing with it is to acknowledge it as something that has happened within the dramatic fiction : " Most of us would get very nervous being interviewed for TV ; I know I would . |
| 10 | Secondly , what is supposed to be happening to the level of money wages following the increase in the money supply ? |
| 11 | Last month they held Brazil 0-0 in Sao Paulo and tonight they field what is likely to be their World Cup team , including the fast and skilful Skoro and the experienced Stojkovic , bound for Marseilles . |
| 12 | Of course , the appropriate behaviour here depends on what is likely to be going on when no set of bindings seems plausible to the reasoner . |
| 13 | Indeed , it is probably more practical not to do things the standard way as this avoids what is likely to be severe over-kill for do-it-yourself applications . |
| 14 | If Rangers can produce a victory tonight 's game — played on neutral territory because of the severe Moscow winter — their prospects of emerging from the group as winners will be enhanced , particularly as the last of their six games will be against what is likely to be an even more depleted Russian side . |
| 15 | THE first of what is likely to be thousands of crosses were planted at Belfast 's Garden of Remembrance yesterday . |
| 16 | But he adds : ‘ We would expect the French economy to remain relatively weak for at least the next year because its main trading partner , Germany , is itself entering what is likely to be quite a painful economic slowdown , brought about by the very high interest rates . ’ |
| 17 | The user must be able to predict from one part of the semantic net what is likely to be in another , analogous part of the semantic net . |
| 18 | We consider the real challenges to society of having more octogenarians , nonagenarians , and centenarians in its ranks , and ask what is likely to be involved in meeting them . |
| 19 | In the context of sociological research into child abuse , it is important to consider what is likely to be distinctive about a sociologist 's ethnographic account . |
| 20 | Thus we propose that the simple binomial model with constant n is a useful simplification of what is likely to be a more complex process . |
| 21 | These however are directives as to what is likely to be the right action ; the actually right action is that which will actually , not merely probably , have the best consequences . |
| 22 | The checklist is rather like a map which leaves out a lot of detail , but shows what is likely to be most relevant for the traveller . |
| 23 | The more the analyst knows about the features of context , the more likely he is to be able to predict what is likely to be said ( see 2.4 ) . |
| 24 | It is necessary both to predict what is likely to be found in a discourse before trying to process it , and to have a clear purpose in processing . |
| 25 | ‘ What is likely to be the result of changing X but not changing Y ? ’ . |
| 26 | Within a longer time frame it may also become more apparent what is likely to be the impact of the Community Care Reforms on the more general features of social work itself . |
| 27 | What is likely to be the major impact of organizational size on the information needs of managers ? |
| 28 | What is likely to be an engaging and appropriate issue ? |
| 29 | As the system is updated , nothing is lost for storage is so cheap that it is always more cost effective to slap a primitive TEI type header on each block of data and transfer it to the next store rather than sort out what is likely to be needed from what is not . |
| 30 | Statistics for average turn-length alone are liable to mislead , however , and what is likely to be more immediately conspicuous to the reader , is that in a number of scenes Anderson has by far the longest turn : in both scene one and three , for example , Anderson produces turns of over 100 words . |