Example sentences of "[noun] [is] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The eyes of BURMA and its growing generation is opening with speed and certainty — the PINNACLE OF BRITISH and European superiority is crumbling to dust — BEWARE the pent up strength of all Asiatics is well near bursting point-THE STRUGGLE FOR TOTAL FREEDOM OF ALL SUBJECT PEOPLES IS SURE TO BEGIN IN THE NOT DISTANT FUTURE . |
| 2 | If the conditions in which a lineage of animals lives remain constant ; say it is dry and hot and has been so without a break for 100 generations , evolution in that lineage is likely to come to a halt , at least as far as adaptations to temperature and humidity are concerned . |
| 3 | Neil is reluctant to talk about the songs in any more detail : ‘ Like my good friend Bob says , a song is just a thought ; you ca n't really talk about a little part of it without taking the whole thing into consideration . ’ |
| 4 | Secondly , the total amount of damages awarded are reduced by any amounts that the defendant is obliged to disgorge under a Commission disgorgement order relating to the same transaction(s) . |
| 5 | Such a dictionary is unlikely to appeal to a member of the general public wishing only to check on a word when solving a crossword or playing Scrabble . |
| 6 | However , an action based solely on economic loss is unlikely to succeed under the normal law of negligence . |
| 7 | Less than an hour later , at Bath , the strain of running the campaign as party chairman only to lose his own seat is painful to see in the face of Chris Patten , who bites his lip . |
| 8 | You can work out the number of fish a pond is able to support from the surface area and size of fish . |
| 9 | If legal help is sought , the lawyer is likely to rely on the precedents which are published . |
| 10 | The lyricism of long-spun melodies is impossible to sustain on the piano , and the rhetoric of hammered chords , thrilling when orchestrated , can seem a mere mannerism , as in the finale of No. 3 and the middle movement of No. 4 . |
| 11 | This tuck stitch is easy to work on the Singer Big Nine and you can see from this sample that by working with a lighter shade for the background for the first four pattern repeats followed by a darker one for the background , similar amounts of yarn have been used over the same number of rows . |
| 12 | However , the temperature-sensitive mutation is sufficiently altered in function , at both permissive and non-permissive temperatures , that the cell is able to function with the levels of R-M activity produced , without excision of the cloned ts - hsd genes . |
| 13 | The theist thereby comes to justify as a paradox what the atheist is wont to dismiss as a confusion . |
| 14 | With the advent of computers enabling researchers to process large amounts of data , such research is likely to increase in the future . |
| 15 | The creation of a currency union by encouraging a shift of resources back to the manufacturing sectors is likely to result in an increase of the average productivity growth rate of member countries and , again , in a decline of their respective natural rates of unemployment . |
| 16 | Thus a private householder selling his old lawn mower or even his second-hand car is free to insist on an exemption clause excluding his liability for , say , negligence . |
| 17 | They have argued that most crime is petty and that the increase in recorded crime is more to do with the public 's decreased tolerance than anything else : |
| 18 | The effect is plain to see in the way that the velocity curves change with time in Fig. 8.7(a) . |
| 19 | Needle-knife papillotomy is probably a safer option than pre-cutting with a sphincterotome where the wire emerges from the end , as the direction of the cut is easier to control with the needle-knife and there is less danger of damage to the pancreatic duct . |
| 20 | It takes 12 Britons to do the work of nine Germans or of eight Japanese , which suggests that a good many more redundancies will have to be declared before British industry is able to compete on the world markets . |
| 21 | The basic algorithm provided with the ANLT is able to deal with the lexical ambiguity ( the ability of words to belong to more than one syntactic category ) . |
| 22 | Private investment is likely to fall by a further 11% in real terms in 1993 , having fallen 13% last year . |
| 23 | Labour is unlikely to lose from the Gulf . |
| 24 | However , whilst ANDF is unlikely to appear in the market this year , Goldstein says OSF plans a conference on the technology for the end of the year to find out which companies are interested in running the stuff to market and how it can be best introduced to an industry audience already blinded by science . |
| 25 | The Port of Belfast now handles more than 55% of Northern Ireland 's seaborne trade and this impressive figure is likely to increase in the year 's ahead . |
| 26 | Bear in mind , though , that the witness is entitled to ask for a copy of the statement and can show it to any one they choose , including the other side . |
| 27 | A tantalising mixture of talent is due to appear at the Town Hall in Oxford on Friday . |
| 28 | The world of neural networks and pattern recognition is likely to act as a major guide . |
| 29 | The official Soviet newsagency TASS says Lithuania is ready to compromise with the Kremlin and hold a referendum on breaking away . |
| 30 | In a hierarchy , a pointer is likely to refer to the owner record — on each lecturer record there could be a pointer to its owner , the head of department . |