Example sentences of "liable [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is important to distinguish between allies and enemies : large numbers of aphids , for example , are often accompanied by ladybird or lacewing larvae which feed voraciously on them and are liable to be killed by many insecticides . |
| 2 | Indeed , ‘ lucidity ’ is liable to be condemned as a form of bourgeois mystification . |
| 3 | Here the difficulty I found in talking about psychoanalytic criticism is compounded , not because I am an unbeliever , but because anything that the middle-aged male commentator says about feminism is liable to be wrong : to be approving may be condemned as patronizing , and to be critical is to be sexist . |
| 4 | He found that he was now sensitive to a new series of demands and worries and was liable to be hurt in new ways , and he suffered moments with a sense of futility . |
| 5 | A commentary on the effect of Government planning in the last few years is found in the recent report of the Working Party on the Building Industry : ‘ The producers of building materials … found that their assessment of the demand for their goods was liable to be upset by sudden changes of policy which they could not possibly foresee . ’ |
| 6 | It may be noted that in Criminal Law anyone who aids , counsels , or procures the commission of an offence is liable to be tried and punished in the same way as if he were a principal offender . |
| 7 | He explained the new Act which carried imprisonment for those liable to be subversive . |
| 8 | But his workload makes him susceptible to fluid depletion and liable to be among the 35 per cent of marathon runners who suffer knee damage . |
| 9 | At this stage , services are liable to be restricted to those assumed to be at special risk' or whose circumstances warrant special priority ( p. 45 ) . |
| 10 | The first stage of this research confirmed the hypothesis that when children have many different caregivers important aspects of their development are liable to be overlooked . |
| 11 | Among immature males this does not occur , but they are liable to be displaced by adult males if they attempt sexual interactions with high-ranking females . |
| 12 | Big organic molecules , and especially the nucleic acids of which genes are made ( see p 5 ) , are liable to be broken down by high-energy radiation , and in particular by the ultraviolet ( W ) light that is a component of sunlight . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But then anyone who picked up a book entitled Does God Exist ? hoping to come away with the answer is liable to be disappointed . |
| 15 | The term is used to distinguish citizens from ‘ aliens ’ who suffer certain disabilities such as having no right to remain in the country , being liable to be deported in certain circumstances , often not being entitled to vote ( though Commonwealth citizens and citizens of the Republic of Ireland resident in this country do have the vote ) or to receive state benefits . |
| 16 | There had grown up in the Commandos a tradition that to be a tough regiment it was necessary to act tough all the time in the barracks and on leave , and they were liable to be badly dressed , ill disciplined and noisy in the streets and restaurants of Cairo . |
| 17 | Such a bouncing of complicity and distance is a characteristic form of engagement in generically mixed forms such as Hill Street Blues , St. Elsewhere or thirtysomething : a form of engagement in which identification and recognition are liable to be wrong-footed at any moment by ironic distance , and , at the same time , ironic distance is liable to be caught out by sudden empathetic recognition . |
| 18 | Such a bouncing of complicity and distance is a characteristic form of engagement in generically mixed forms such as Hill Street Blues , St. Elsewhere or thirtysomething : a form of engagement in which identification and recognition are liable to be wrong-footed at any moment by ironic distance , and , at the same time , ironic distance is liable to be caught out by sudden empathetic recognition . |
| 19 | Knowing that missionaries were liable to be stranded in such places for long periods , and that they were not without their temptations , he had the idea of setting up libraries there too as a wholesome diversion . |
| 20 | Grandiose guarantees of freedom are liable to be contradicted in a couple of discreet subparagraphs , loitering at the end of a page . |
| 21 | Section 7 provides simply that ‘ The decisions of the Tribunal ( including any decisions as to their jurisdiction ) shall not be subject to appeal or liable to be questioned in any court . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ There 's liable to be a few more . ’ |
| 23 | The child struggled gamely on to page two but Seemed to suspect that , after a page turn of this quality , anything else was liable to be an anti-climax . |
| 24 | He had remembered that Donald , Arfur 's father , was liable to be waiting , with other fathers , in his parked car outside the Wimbledon Young Players ' rehearsal . |
| 25 | Unless there are exceptional circumstances which render you liable to be sacked straight away ( a few examples are set out in Clause 9 in the sample agreement in Appendix 1 ) , you will be entitled to notice . |
| 26 | Despite the fact that he had worked for most of the period of his contract in England , lived in England , was paid in English currency and paid National Insurance contributions in the UK , he was at all times liable to be recalled to Dhaka . |
| 27 | The member is also liable to be adjudged incapable of being elected or appointed to any public office for five years from the date of his conviction and also to forfeit any such office held by him at the time of his conviction . |
| 28 | The process of gaining the confidence of criminals is liable to be time-consuming and thus expensive . |
| 29 | It may be that tougher-looking delinquents are more liable to be put away than fragile looking ones . |
| 30 | It is well established that in the delinquent-prone , home discipline is more liable to be too lax , strict or erratic . |