Example sentences of "[noun] [is] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] the " 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 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | However , an action based solely on economic loss is unlikely to succeed under the normal law of negligence . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | You can work out the number of fish a pond is able to support from the surface area and size of fish . |
| 6 | If legal help is sought , the lawyer is likely to rely on the precedents which are published . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | With the advent of computers enabling researchers to process large amounts of data , such research is likely to increase in the future . |
| 11 | 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 : |
| 12 | The effect is plain to see in the way that the velocity curves change with time in Fig. 8.7(a) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | Labour is unlikely to lose from the Gulf . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A tantalising mixture of talent is due to appear at the Town Hall in Oxford on Friday . |
| 20 | The official Soviet newsagency TASS says Lithuania is ready to compromise with the Kremlin and hold a referendum on breaking away . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Central to any definition of apraxia is the idea that any paralysis or weakness of limbs is insufficient to account for the movement disorder . |
| 23 | The level of conveyancing work is unlikely to increase in the foreseeable future . |
| 24 | Johnston faulted his defence for being too flat in that , as an outside centre himself , the A team 's coach is quick to focus on the insufficient depth which gives the player in that berth no chance to cover such a thrust by the opposition 's inside centre . |
| 25 | And Ireland 's top traditional dancers are bracing themselves for even more misery at the end of this month when the 18-year-old whizz-kid is due to return for the World Championships in Dublin . |
| 26 | Such a transfer is difficult to achieve at the best of times . |
| 27 | The aeroplane is due to fly for the first time in 1995 and , once certified safe , should be flying passengers by 1997 . |
| 28 | The effect of the Moscow trials is difficult to gauge from the immediate reaction . |
| 29 | Answer guide : As with item ( f ) above the question of the cost is important to discuss in terms of what future benefit is likely to accrue to the business . |
| 30 | Indeed Bobby Gould is likely to stick to the team that won startlingly at Chelsea last Saturday . |