Example sentences of "[adj] to be a [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking to the future , she warned that 1993 looked set to be a tougher year than last , ‘ Education funding in the UK looks less secure than in 1992 , and there are no major World Bank projects likely to come through in 1993 . |
| 2 | They 're supposed to be a smaller version of Christ Church meadows . |
| 3 | If , for example , language is used to establish a context of shared knowledge rather than to identify aspects of a pre-existing one , then there is likely to be a higher degree of explicit lexical reference and so a higher proportion of full words . |
| 4 | This also will require a mixture of skill- and discipline-based courses , although there is likely to be a greater emphasis on technical computing aspects . |
| 5 | likely to be a better day then |
| 6 | Here , the study of foregrounding and its interpretation is likely to be a better guide to the aesthetic function of language than the study of stylistic variants . |
| 7 | As we have already indicated , it is generally assumed that in future there is likely to be a further reduction in the proportion of people of pensionable age who will be earning currently and hence adding to the gross national product as the latter is now calculated . |
| 8 | There is likely to be a further fall in the proportion of consumption accounted for by oil by the year 2000 — some 35% of demand in that year . |
| 9 | The possibility of attracting outside investment only really exists for a corporate entity and this is likely to be a further reason for surveyors ' considering various comparisons between the partnership and corporate structure for the running of their businesses . |
| 10 | On return to the farm in the late afternoon there was likely to be a further round of gossip and conversation while grooming the horses and bedding them down for the night . |