Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [am/are] [adj] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two working parties are due to report this summer on the issue . |
| 2 | British experts are likely to dispute these calculations which are based on mathematical models that attempt to extrapolate likely human cancers from laboratory studies . |
| 3 | Recent attention has been focused on the stunned myocardium and while established methods of assessing ventricular function are unable to detect such jeopardised myocardium , newer imaging techniques such as positron emission tomography , nuclear magnetic resonance or contrast echocardiography may further improve risk stratification in the future . |
| 4 | Such an arrangement is subject to attack by the Inland Revenue under the principle in Furniss v Dawson [ 1984 ] 1 All ER 530 whereby the Inland Revenue are entitled to ignore each of the individual steps and consider the substance of the transaction as a whole . |
| 5 | So it seems unfortunate that they report that relatively few shops are prepared to work this system . |
| 6 | These readers , the assumption might run , are at ease with the complexities of rhythm and vision , pattern and play , and united by this ease are free to discriminate more and more finally the detail of the smallest fragment or the structure or the entire work . |
| 7 | erm until some of the people who are putting a lot of pressures on schools to do different things are prepared to resolve some of these contradictions , I think the teachers feel that they 're being continually criticised by different groups for not doing different things , many of which are mutually contradictory , erm and not surprisingly they feel a little defensive in this situation . |
| 8 | Some owners are distressed to discover that , after months or years of ‘ clean ’ behaviour , their pet cats start to leave messes around the house . |
| 9 | Some farmers are likely to achieve this by converting to organic farming . |
| 10 | We are certain that you will be aware of how some people are able to achieve more than others , cram so much more into a working day , and do it with seemingly little effort . |
| 11 | Mr Major defied the wise saw which says that the British people are happy to pay more tax in order to get better public services , and played the issue of Labour 's higher taxes for all it was worth : it was worth the difference between an overall majority of 21 and a hung Parliament . |
| 12 | Most people could have far more children than they are able to support , while a sizeable minority are unable to have any children at all . |
| 13 | Since it seems quite apparent that social decisions are likely to involve many dimensions ( e.g. , multiple expenditure programmes , different parameters of the tax system ) , this is an important result . |
| 14 | A few precautions are advisable to eliminate any risk that may exist in a domestic situation . |
| 15 | The people of this country are entitled to know that . |
| 16 | Few jobs are easy to get these days and , if you have set your sights on advertising , it must be worth extra effort . |
| 17 | Several features of the older age groups which are currently taken for granted , including the predominance of women and the stereotype of the elderly spinster , in part reflect cohort effects ; future generations are unlikely to display these trends to the same degree . |
| 18 | Alternatively , however , you may want to emphasise the point that actual readers are unlikely to respond all in the same way , especially readers differing in gender , class , age , ethnicity or some other aspect of social identity . |
| 19 | Such costs are unlikely to cover all the work that a solicitor has undertaken on behalf of a client . |
| 20 | Additional studies are necessary to correlate these concentrations with clinical effects . |
| 21 | The people in the company who will have to run the system , the manager or director in whose department the system will be installed ought to be involved in the selection process , but such people are unlikely to have much knowledge of computers and computer software although they may be familiar with word processing and spreadsheet systems running on microcomputers . |
| 22 | The very largest like the Prudential and Standard Life are able to offer these as a genuinely independent extension of their huge pension businesses but many of the smaller firms obviously see them as commercial marketing opportunities . |
| 23 | Unemployed people with a working spouse are unable to draw this benefit , since the means test is applied to joint income . |
| 24 | Kinetic reasons are unlikely to explain this difference , since unchelated zinc and copper have rates of ligand exchange similar to those of magnesium and calcium , such as water exchange rate constants . |
| 25 | Visitor attractions at off-peak times or in off-season periods are unlikely to have any significant effect in reducing peaks , but they may help to spread the loading on staff time . |
| 26 | For example , the expansion of tax and management advisory services has created an impression that these firms are willing to enter any area of service in which the economic rewards are advantageous . |
| 27 | Further , if , as Woolgar emphasizes ( 1988a ) , reflexivity on the part of authors is a vital quality in helping others understand how social-scientific knowledge is produced , these reflections are important to demonstrate some of the social processes lying behind and operating upon this study . |
| 28 | These jokes are liable to turn all your friends into a bunch of werewolves , vampires , swamp monsters and slime creatures just so they can get their own back on you . |
| 29 | It seems that younger people are likely to have more contact with the community ( to go on exchanges , visits etc. ) and have more use of the language ( at school , with peers of the second language community ) . |
| 30 | This is because females reared on larger hosts are able to lay more eggs , but males do not gain by being larger . |